For the preparation of fish cakes, it is best to use fish species such as cod, pikeperch, salmon or pike. Sometimes housewives avoid cooking cutlets from pike, because they consider it a fish a little dry and bony. However, with the right approach, pike fishcakes are very juicy and tender.
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Of course, a pike is a fish that has a large number of bones, so you have to work as much as possible to remove the largest bones, you can leave the small ones: they are fine chopped in a meat grinder.
In order to cook fish pike cutlets, you need about an hour. Keep in mind that such cutlets will be completely non-nutritive: 100 grams of cutlets contain about 103 kilocalories.
You will need the following ingredients:
- pike - 1 pc. (2 kg);
- milk - 300 ml;
- onions - 1 pc.;
- chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
- loaf - 250 g;
- breadcrumbs;
- vegetable oil - for frying;
- butter - 50 g;
- salt and pepper - to taste.
Take a white loaf, cut it into large pieces and lower it into a bowl of milk. Now you can start cutting and cleaning the pike. Remember that any fish is easier to clean if you first scald it with hot water: then the scales leave much better.
Clean your pike, then remove the head and tail, make a long cut along the ridge to separate the meat from the skeleton. Using tweezers, you can remove the largest bones. Pike fillet is ready. Now you need to make minced meat from it. For this you need a meat grinder.
Peel the onions and pass them together with the fish fillet through a meat grinder. Squeeze the baton, remove the crusts and add to the minced meat for the cutlets, into which the chicken eggs must be broken. The number of eggs will directly depend on the density of minced meat.
Do not forget to salt and add spices. Knead the meat for cutlets with your hands, remembering to dip your hands in water each time. Form small cutlets. Since pike is a fish with lean meat, butter can be added to cutlets. Add a small piece of butter, the size of one cubic centimeter, to each cutlet.
Then bread the pike cutlets in breadcrumbs and fry in a pan in a small amount of vegetable oil until golden brown.
Now the fried pike fishcakes can be put in a deep pan, in which you need to pour a little water, and put in the oven, heated at a temperature of 180 degrees, for about 15 minutes. During this time, the patties will cook and dry out of the water.
Your pike fishcakes are ready and you can serve them to the table.