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Whitefish Cake Tikki Recipe

You can make this with any White fish including Cod. The fish fillet may be steamed or pan fried. We make a fish mixture for patties, the patties will be coated in dry flour mixture and then pan fried. If you don't want to use eggs, you may use Dahi yogurt, or even milk.

Ingredients

Fish Mix

1. White fish or Cod: 1 pound Steamed and flaked

2. Shallots: 3 Tablespoons finely chopped.

3. Potatoes: 2 Medium size, Boiled, peeled, forked

Potato type Russet. Not over cooked. Slightly undercooked works better

4. Kasoori Patta: 1 Tablespoon

5. Salt: ½ teaspoon or to taste

6. Cayenne powder: ¼ teaspoon or to taste

7. Egg: 1 slightly beaten

8. Nutmeg: ¼ teaspoon freshly grated

Breading Mix

9. All purpose flour: 3 Tablespoons

10. Cream of wheat: 1 Tablespoon

11. Salt: pinch

12. Cayenne pepper: pinch

13. Amchoor: pinch

14. Canola oil: ¼ cup for frying

Method

Step 1: Fish Mix

1. Mix shallots, mashed potatoes, salt, pepper, shallots, Kasoori Patta and nutmeg.

1. Add half the beaten egg. You want the mixture to be a just damp not a runny paste. Add egg as you need. You may need up to two slightly beaten eggs.

3. Fold in flaked fish fillet.

4. Let the mixture rest for about half an hour in the refrigerator.

Step 2: Mix breading

The breading is dry mix of all purpose flour (Maida), cream of wheat (Sooji), salt, pepper and Amchoor. If you don't have Amchoor, add citric acid.

Step 3: Patties and Frying

1. Form patties about ½" thick, and 3" round. Dust the patties with breading mix. Let the breaded rest for 15 minutes. Dust them again just before frying on the griddle.

2. On a griddle heat a teaspoon of canola oil. You want to cook on low to medium heat slowly. Fry the patties till underside starts to get brown about three minutes. Turn the patties over and cook another 3 minutes.

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