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Fish Cakes

Old recipe from Rhodesia - Zimbabwe today

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Ingredients

potatoes, boiled and mashed
onions chopped
4 medium eggs, hard boiled
1 large can(s) herrings in tomato sauce, 420ml
1 large can(s) sardines, 110ml
eggs, whisked
50 g cake flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
  cooking oil
1 handful parsley, chopped
1 handful celery, chopped
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
portions

Method

Preparation time: ca. 25 min / Grade of difficulty: medium / Calories per portion: n/a

Drain pilchards and sardines and mash together. Add onions, whisked eggs, flour, salt, baking powder and cayenne pepper and mix well. Add mashed potatoes, parsley and celery and mix well.

Heat oil in a pan, form fish mix into little cakes (burgers) and fry in hot oil until golden brown or done. Drain on paper towel.

Place shelled eggs in the middle of a serving plate and arrange fish cakes around the eggs.

Additional info: Back in those days it was very hard to come by fresh fish, being a landlocked country and living with trade boycotts people had to cope with goods which were available to them e,g, canned fish.

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