Easy Tuna Cakes

Name: Easy Tuna Cakes
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: 4 serving
Ingredients: 500 gm raw tuna; 500 gm steamed potato; 1 Tablespoon very finely chopped shallot or Spanish onion; 1 clove garlic; 1 whole egg; 50 gm panko crumbs; 40 ml lemon juice; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 1/4 cup parsley; 1 whole chilli if you like; 2 cups panko crumbs

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Prep Time
25 mins
Cook Time
25 mins
Servings
4
Course
Main Course, Snacks, Dinner
Cuisine
Australian

Easy Tuna Cakes

Iris Warren

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These cakes can be made with tuna tails or offcuts as well as fillet. this recipe will make 8 large or 12-14 small snack sized cakes. This recipe uses Australian cup measurements

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Ingredients

Servings

500 gm raw tuna
500 gm steamed potato preferably a waxy one like Deseree
1 Tablespoon very finely chopped shallot or Spanish onion
1 clove garlic
1 whole egg
50 gm panko crumbs 1/2 cup
40 ml lemon juice 2 Tablespoons
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup parsley chopped
1 whole chilli if you like

To crumb

2 cups panko crumbs

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Instructions

Cook and crush the potato and refrigerate till cool. ( I steam whole in the skins and peel after)
Cut the tuna into pieces and put into a food processor and blitz till it is well minced but not completely smooth.
Then in a bowl, add the parsley, tuna, shallot, garlic, lemon juice, egg, salt and pepper and crumbs to the potato and mix well.
Shape the mixture into cakes flattening to around 5-6 cm so they are not too thick to cook through.
The recipe can be made to here and chilled if you want to cook them later.
Put 2 cups of panko crumbs into a dish and coat the cakes with the crumbs. Pushing them onto the outside so they stick. I had no need to eggwash, the crumbs should stick with no problems but you can egg them first if you prefer
Heat a fry pan with 3 cm of oil. When it is hot add the fish cakes in batches frying till golden on both sides, drain on kitchen paper.
Serve them with caper mayonnaise
This recipe makes approximately 8 fish cakes or around 12-14 small ones

Notes

They make great canapes and only take minutes to cook. You can prepare them ahead of time and cook them at the last minute, just before handing around with a sauce.
Serve them with aioli, chilli mayonnaise or tartare sauce