Canned fish dishes are an excellent solution if you need to cook something, but fresh food was not at hand. Each zealous housewife always has several cans of canned fish in bins. Cured saury fish cakes can be an excellent dish for a full lunch or dinner. Moreover, their preparation does not require much time and any special ingredients.
There are many variations in the preparation of this dish, some are absolutely simple, while others can claim a place of honor at the festive table.
The simplest recipe for canned saury cutlets
Most often, sausage and rice cutlets are prepared according to a simple recipe, which differs from the preparation of ordinary cutlets only in the addition of rice. Despite the simplicity of preparation, the result will appeal to all lovers of fish cakes and meatballs.
In order to cook cutlets from canned saury according to the recipe below, you must first prepare the following ingredients:
- Canned saury - 1 can.
- Boiled rice - 1 cup.
- Chicken egg - 1 piece.
- Onions - 1 piece (small).
- Breadcrumbs or flour - 100 grams.
- Salt, pepper and other spices to taste.
- Vegetable oil - for frying.
Canned food should be previously thrown into a sieve or colander in order to drain excess fluid. After that, the fish is crushed using a meat grinder or simply knead it with a fork (canned saury is quite soft and easily chopped even without the use of a meat grinder). A glass of pre-boiled rice, a finely chopped onion head (you can scroll the onion through a meat grinder) are added to the fish, one chicken egg is beaten, sprinkled with salt and pepper to taste. It should be borne in mind that canned fish already contains a certain amount of salt, that is, salted minced fish should be only a little, but you can completely do without salt. When all the ingredients are combined, the minced meat is thoroughly mixed, small circles are formed from it. Formed cutlets of canned saury with rice are rolled from all sides in breadcrumbs or in flour (depending on one's own preferences).
Vegetable oil for frying is poured into a hot pan and cutlets are laid out. They should be fried on all sides until a delicious brownish crust appears. This dish should not be overexposed on fire, as sausage cutlets with rice do not contain ingredients that require a long heat treatment.
A great addition to these cutlets will be sour cream or garlic sour cream sauce. And as a side dish they will be combined with rice or mashed potatoes.
Economical recipe for canned fish cutlets
There are cases when there is only one can of canned food, and you need to feed a large family or company. In order to make a lot of cutlets from a small amount of fish and not to remain hungry, potatoes are added to the standard recipe for cutlets from saury. In this case, either raw potatoes or ready-made mashed potatoes can be used.
If raw potatoes will be used (usually 1-2 potatoes are added), then it should be pre-grated on a coarse grater and squeezed through cheesecloth to exclude excess liquid.
It is very convenient to use ready-made mashed potatoes when preparing cutlets, it has a soft consistency and when added to minced meat makes it easy to form cutlets. However, they will not fall apart when frying. The amount of mashed potatoes to be added to the minced meat varies depending on how many ready-made cutlets you need to get. Thus, having only one can of canned fish, you can feed large company cutlets.
The recipe for delicious canned fish cutlets
From canned fish you can prepare not only a simple everyday family dinner, but also a very interesting dish for the festive table. For this, in addition to fish, rice, onions, chicken eggs and breadcrumbs, you will need:
- some butter or cheese (about 50 grams);
- 1 clove of garlic or aromatic spices such as "provencal herbs";
- greens (parsley, dill).
In order for the cutlets from canned saury with rice to be as juicy and fragrant as possible, you just need to put inside a small piece of the filling of grated cheese or butter. To do this, grated cheese is mixed with a small amount of garlic, grated or squeezed through the garlic. Instead of garlic, you can use any other aromatic spices (for example, Provencal or Italian herbs, nutmeg), which will give the dish a unique aroma and piquancy.
Many people like to use small pieces of butter as a filling for cutlets, in which case the butter should be pre-frozen so that it does not leak when frying the cutlets. Along with butter, fragrant spices are also placed inside.
To get a good result, a little trick will help: if the dish is stuffed, then when forming the cutlets, you should first form a small cutlet and roll it in breadcrumbs, and only then cover it with extra mincemeat and roll it again in breadcrumbs or flour. This simple action will not allow the filling to leak during frying and will help to save all the filling inside the cutlet. All other features of the preparation of canned fish cutlets according to this recipe absolutely do not differ from the standard method described above.
Oven baked saury cutlets recipe
Today, many people try to monitor their health and not eat fried foods. But this is not a reason to refuse cutlets from canned saury with rice. This dish can be prepared using the oven.
Initially, fish cakes are formed from minced fish mixed with boiled rice, chopped onion, chicken egg and spices. Then roll them a little in flour and place on a baking sheet at a small distance from each other (so that they do not stick together during baking). In order to make the baked cutlets more tender and juicy, you can pre-grease them with sour cream or mayonnaise. Pour some hot water (about 1 cm from the bottom) onto the bottom of the baking sheet or pan in which the fish cakes will be baked. This will protect the dish from dryness and burning.
Such cutlets are baked at a temperature of 200 degrees and removed from the oven as soon as they lightly brown.
Can I use other canned fish for cooking meatballs
Cured saury is the most popular in cooking cutlets. This is due primarily to its taste properties: it has a delicate texture and is quite oily. Therefore, cutlets are juicy and tasty.
But it is permissible to use other types of canned food, for example, sardine, tuna, pink salmon, and mackerel. Each of them has its advantages and disadvantages. For example, canned sardines are inexpensive, but sardines are fairly dry fish and may be bitter; tuna canned food has a pleasant taste and quite a lot of useful substances, but it is quite expensive, and tuna cutlets can be dry.
Everyone can choose canned fish to their taste and wallet and use exactly the type that you like more. It is worth remembering that the main recipe for cutlets from canned saury or sardine is similar to recipes that are prepared on the basis of other canned fish.
Which side dish is best for canned fish cutlets
Fish cakes made from canned food are combined with the same side dishes as any fish dishes. That is, potatoes cooked in any way or boiled rice will be a great addition. The potatoes may be boiled, baked, fried, or may be served in the form of mashed potatoes. If the family prefers rice to potatoes, then you can serve stewed rice with vegetables or regular boiled rice with butter.
As a festive side dish, canned fish cakes perfectly complement any dish of stewed vegetables or a salad of fresh vegetables and herbs.
Enjoy your meal!