Shrimp cakes

Name: Shrimp cakes
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Oriental
Ingredients: 200 g potatoes; 450 g pink prawns (or shrimp), cooked; 1 large egg; ½ a red chilli, chopped finely; 1 teaspoon grated ginger; Salt to taste; 1 cup of chopped coriander; 2 Spring onions, choppedspring onions, chopped; Breadcrumbs; Vegetable oil for frying

Robin has kindly given me permission to use this wonderful recipe and pictures that appeared on her Flickr feed.

Wonderfully simple and delicious - food doesn't get much better than this for me!

Shrimp cakes

The perfect snack!
Servings:	Serves 2
Calories per serving:	545
Ready in:	30 minutes
Prep. time:	15 minutes
Cook time:	15 minutes
Difficulty:
Recipe author:	Chef
First published:	21st January 2013

Best recipe review I call these fritters 5/5 And they are great - especially with lots of chilli sauce. The Judge

Ingredients

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200 g potatoes
450 g pink prawns (or shrimp), cooked
1 large egg
½ a red chilli, chopped finely
1 teaspoon grated ginger
Salt to taste
1 cup of chopped coriander
2 spring onions, chopped
Breadcrumbs
Vegetable oil for frying

Mise en place

Boil and mash the potatoes and let them cool - don't add any milk or butter.

Method

Add the prawns, egg, ginger, chilli and salt to a food processor with a metal blade and pulse until roughly combined.
Fork the mixture into the mashed potatoes, together with the coriander and spring onions
Form into little balls and flatten them into small discs.
Press the edges and both sides of the cakes into breadcrumbs and pan-fry them in vegetable oil for 4 minutes a side

Formed into balls
The mixture

Serving suggestions

User:Robin's serving suggestion:

Serve with some mayonnaise, mixed with lots of very finely chopped onion and a good amount of wasabi-paste. (There isn't any onion in the wasabi mayonnaise in the photo, but trust me, it's nicer with it.)

Chef's notes

When you make mash, make double or treble the amount and freeze the remainder in single or double portion plastic bags. Great for recipes like this!

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