Fish cutlets are insanely tasty and in no way inferior to meat counterparts, and if they are made from canned fish, it also saves a lot of time. Such an ingredient in delicious and satisfying cutlets is an excellent solution for busy housewives, who will only need to open the jar and drain the brine from it, and then start cooking.
The easiest recipes
To make very simple and quick cutlets from canned fish and potatoes, you will need one can of the main ingredient (canned fish), 5-6 potatoes, 1 cup of rice, a couple of onions, 2 eggs, salt and pepper. First, boil the potatoes and rice (of course, separately), then peel the vegetables and pass these ingredients along with the onions through a meat grinder.
Just mash canned food with a fork, if there are hard bones in them, then remove them. After that, mix the fish and the scrolled ingredients, add salt, pepper, other spices, chopped herbs and eggs to them. Then form the patties, roll them in flour and fry in oil until golden brown.
Practically, fish cakes with semolina are also simply prepared, for which you will need 1 can of canned food (in this case, tender pink salmon will be best combined with semolina), 1 glass of semolina, onion, 2 eggs, 2-3 tbsp. mayonnaise (can be replaced with low-fat yogurt), salt and pepper, a small pinch of baking soda. In this case, grind the pieces of fish with a fork, add semolina, finely chopped onion, and all the other ingredients to them. After that, shape the patties, roll them in flour or breading and fry in vegetable oil.
In this recipe, rice can be substituted with cornmeal or cereal.
More complex recipe
To prepare a more complex recipe for this canned fish dish, you will need: a can of canned food (in this recipe it is also best to take pink salmon), a couple of medium potatoes, an onion, a clove of garlic, a bay leaf, 1/4 tsp. ginger, 1 tbsp. butter, 1 tsp. turmeric, cardamom, 1 tsp. sugar, 0.5 tsp. salt, a little hot chili pepper, a pinch of cinnamon.
Such a dish, with its satiety, will satisfy the appetite of even a man who works in physical work, but his second half will significantly reduce the time for cooking.
First, chop the onion and garlic, and cut the potatoes into small cubes. After that, fry the first ingredients a little (about 2-3 minutes) in butter with the addition of chopped ginger, then put the potatoes in the pan and cook the ingredients for another 4-5 minutes. After that, put the mashed fish pieces, turmeric and bay leaves with 100 ml of warm water into a saucepan. Simmer the ingredients for another 10-12 minutes. After that, remove the bay leaf from the pan and add cardamom, as well as salt, sugar, chili and cinnamon to it, mix thoroughly. Form cutlets from the resulting mass, it is best to roll them in breadcrumbs, then literally fry them in vegetable oil for 4-5 minutes.
It is this recipe that gives room for various cooking variations, since you can make canned fish cutlets more useful without adding vegetable oil. The ingredients have already been pre-processed by stewing, they will stick together perfectly. To cook such cutlets for steam, simply fix them by deboning them in flour and place them on the steamer rack for cooking for 7-8. With this option, you will receive a dietary and healthy dish in a short time spent at the stove.
