Fish hearts | Indian fish cakes | Kukskitchen

Any one bought the wrong kinda white tasteless fish and did not know what to do with it? Well I have done it many a times and each time it turns in to something different. This time I thought I will try an east-west combo, not really a fish cutlet but may be more like a fish cake. The shape gives it the name - fish hearts. My valentine cookie cutter came in handy.

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Fish hearts

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Ingredients

1 - Fish(any kind, I used sainsbury's white fish) - 500g
     Vinegar - 1 tbsp
     Salt to taste
     Ginger paste - 1 tsp
2 - Potato - 1 medium
3 - Onion - 2 medium - chopped
4 - Pepper crushed - 1 tsp
     Cumin powder - 1/2 tsp
     Garam masala - 2 tsp
     Turmeric - 1/4 tsp
     Chilli flakes - 1/2 tsp
5 - Bread crumbs - 1/2 cup
     Coriander leaves - 1/2 cup
6- Bread crumbs - 1 cup
    Egg - 1
7- Oil - 2 tbsp
8- 2 tbsp of hot water

Method

• Cook fish with (1) in a pan till flaky.
• Boil the potato in a pressure cooker till well done and mash-able.
• Heat oil in a pan and saute finely chopped onions. When the onion is transparent, add the cooked fish and break them into flakes in the pan with your spoon.
• Add (4) one by one mixing after each addition and saute till the mix is dry. Taste for salt. I felt at this point that my fish mix was too dry and may not hold together later. Hence, I added hot water to combine and soften the mix.
• Mash potato and add coriander leaves to it. You can add salt to this mash if you want.
• Combine the fish mix with the potato. Add 1/2 cup bread crumbs to help combine the mix. I used fresh crumbs made from white bread.
• Shape them which ever way you want. 
• You can fry them in two ways.
•  Fish cutlet style - Dip the fish shapes in beaten egg and fry in oil.
• Fish cake style - Dip fish shapes in beaten egg and then in bread crumbs and then fry in oil
• Fry till golden brown.
• Fish hearts are best served with tomato ketchup and thinly sliced raw onions and they make a pretty good starter or appetiser. My son loves them a lot and finishes a whole plate with some ketchup.

Cheers

Sherin Deepu