FISH CROQUETTES RECIPE

The name croquette was derived from the French word for crunch. The Croquette is made up of a filling with binder, coated with bread crumbs and lastly deep fried. 

You can add boiled potato also as binder. The function of binder is to keep the Croquettes firmed.

The filling of Croquettes can be made with meat, fish, vegetables etc.

Here, I am presenting Fish Croquette Recipe. 

Prep Time : 30 minutes

Cook time : 30 minutes

Serve : 4

Level Of Cooking : Easy

240 calories, 9 grams

Fish Croquettes Recipe*

Ingredients 

Bhetki fish - 500 grams

Onion - 2 medium size

Ginger - 1 piece

Garlic 4 cloves

Chili powder - 2 tea spoon

Turmeric Powder - 1 teaspoon

Garam masala powder - 1/2 teaspoon

(Green cardamom - 5 nos., cloves 4 nos. & a small cinnamon stick - grind these to make powder)

Sugar - 1 teaspoon

Coriander leaves finely chopped - 1 tablespoon

Raisin (Kismis) - 50 grams

Egg - 4

Salt - As required

Bread crumbs - As required

Mustard Oil for frying

HOW TO MAKE FISH CROQUETTES 

Clean the fish pieces. Add salt and a teaspoon turmeric powder. Mix well. 

Boil the bhetki fish pieces adding ginger 1/2 teaspoon, 1 teaspoon onion paste with little water in a pan. Adding ginger and onion paste are optional at the time of boiling fish. It is better to add to remove the smell of the fish. 

When the fish is cooked and water dries up completely, take out the pan from the flame. Let the fish pieces be cool. Now remove the skins, bones of the fish pieces and mash the fish pieces.

Alternative process is - after washing the fish pieces, just add salt and turmeric powder as needed in the fishes and fry each piece lightly in oil. Do not over fry the fish. After frying, take out the fish pieces from the pan, keep on a big plate, start removing the skin and bones from the fish. Mash the fried fish pieces. 

Make a paste of onions, garlic and ginger. In the pan, heat oil. Add onion, garlic and ginger paste. Stir for a second, add the mashed boiled fish. Now add chili powder, garam masala powder, sugar and raisins. Stir for few minutes. Now add some bread crumbs for the binding purpose. Add the chopped coriander leaves. Mix well. Fry for few seconds. Then take out the fish mixture from the flame.

For the binding purpose, I added bread crumbs. But mashed boiled potato can be added for binding the fish mixture. But I do not like adding boiled potato. The taste of the fish croquettes will be better without adding the mashed potato. So I prefer to use bread crumbs instead of the boiled potato for binding purpose. 

Take a handful of the fish mixture, give the shape of the fish mixture as you desire - round shape or rectangular shape or any other shapes.

In a bowl beat the eggs adding little salt. In another plate, spread bread crumbs.

Roll each shaped fish mixture in the bread crumbs and keep them aside for 10 minutes.

Then dip each shaped fish mixture into the egg wash, roll in the bread crumbs to coat well. Keep aside. 

Repeat the process for all the shaped fish mixture. Keep these in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Heat oil in a deep fry pan or kadai. Slowly slide the croquettes 3-4 at a time and fry the fish croquettes to brown. Do not fry on high flame. 

Keep the flame medium to low.

Fish Croquettes are now ready to eat.

Serve them hot with the mustard sauce (kasundi) and onion slice. Enjoy. 

*Picture Source : Internet