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  • 250g-300g white fish fillets (eg haddock, pollock), chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic, peeled and roughly chopped
  • 5cm ginger, peeled and roughly chopped
  • 1 stalk lemongrass, outer leaves removed and white part roughly chopped
  • 3 spring onions, finely chopped

1 red chilli, roughly chopped (or 4 dried chillies, de-seeded and soaked in hot water for 10 minutes)

  • handful of fresh coriander
  • 1 tbsp groundnut oil
  • 3 tsp fish sauce
  • half a tsp salt
  • zest of 1 lime
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1 egg lightly beaten

groundnut oil for frying

  • salad leaves, lime wedges and sweet chilli sauce to serve

    Method

    • step 1

      Into a food processor put the garlic, ginger, lemongrass, spring onion, chilli, coriander and the tbsp oil. Pulse until it is well chopped up.
    • step 2

      Add the fish, fish sauce, salt, lime zest, sugar and egg and whizz until it forms a smooth paste. Scoop out into a bowl and, using your hands, pick up the mixture and repeatedly through it against the side of the bowl. Do this for 3-4 minutes (this thickens and aerates the mixture). Chill the mixture for 15 minutes.
    • step 3

      Shape into little patties and shallow fry for a few minutes on each side until golden and cooked through.
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    A star rating of 4.8 out of 5.13 ratings

    Cookshall

    Brilliant recipe, worked a treat. I used frozen ginger and red chilli and it still worked a treat.

    paulcockerton

    A star rating of 5 out of 5.

    Great recipe - it does turn out a bit wet so possibly add less fish sauce, more dry ingredients. Everyone (kids included) loved this.

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    Gabs W

    A star rating of 4 out of 5.

    I made these and flavours were delicious but even after being in the fridge and throwing the mixture it was very wet meaning whilst they tasted great, the fishcakes didn't look appertising, they were falling apart and a little mushy. Not sure what i did wrong? I left them in the fridge for an hour…

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    Mafeesh Moushkella

    A star rating of 5 out of 5.

    I have used this recipe before, it's so easy and delicious but I panicked yesterday when making a batch as I cooked off 2 tod mun pla to try with dinner yesterday and they were so salty!

    I checked back through the recipe and realised that I'd added 3 tbs instead of 3 tsp of fish sauce. Had to make…

    tweedie53

    A star rating of 5 out of 5.

    Excellent recipe, loved it. Thank you.

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