Home-made Satsuma-age Fish Cakes
Home-made Satsuma-age Fish Cakes

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, home-made satsuma-age fish cakes. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Home-made Satsuma-age Fish Cakes is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Home-made Satsuma-age Fish Cakes is something that I have loved my entire life.

Japanese fish cakes are made in a similar way to Thai fish cakes but the flavourings are less spicy and use common Japanese seasonings. It is also a fish cake but instead of deep frying the fish cake, it is steamed and then grilled. If you have a food processor, making satsuma-age is quite easy.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have home-made satsuma-age fish cakes using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Home-made Satsuma-age Fish Cakes:
  1. Take 400 grams White fish such as cod
  2. Take 30 grams Lima beans (frozen ones are OK)
  3. Prepare 30 grams Carrot
  4. Prepare 20 grams Wood ear mushrooms (rehydrated and squeezed out of the excess water)
  5. Make ready 2 tbsp Dried shrimps
  6. Prepare 2 Dried shiitake mushrooms (rehydrated and chopped finely)
  7. Get 16 grams Sugar
  8. Take 7 grams Salt
  9. Prepare 1 tsp each Soy sauce and juice from grated ginger
  10. Make ready 16 grams Cornstarch
  11. Take 2 tsp of water and sake Water to dissolve the cornstarch

Japanese fish cakes are made in a similar way to Thai fish cakes but the flavourings are less spicy and use common Japanese seasonings. Unlike typical Western-style fish cakes, they do not use flour or mashed potatoes to bind the fish together. Fried fish was known as "Chikiagi" and spread to Kagoshima. From Kagoshima it spread all over the country and has different names in different parts of Japan.

Instructions to make Home-made Satsuma-age Fish Cakes:
  1. These are the ingredients. You can see one filet of fish in the photo, but I actually used 2 filets of fish (400 g).
  2. I used 2 kinds of fish and you can see the difference of the colour in this photo. Blitz the fish in a food processor.
  3. Transfer the fish into a mortar (with pestle) bowl.
  4. My mortar and pestle is small, so I ground the fish until smooth in 4 batches. This is a tiring job, but you will have plump fish cakes by doing this process.
  5. Add the sugar and salt and grind the mixture further. Add the cornstarch dissolved in water and sake, and stir in the wood ear mushrooms and carrot.
  6. Add the soy sauce and juice from the grated ginger, and shape the mixture into balls. Personally, I believe the wood ear mushrooms and lima beans are essential.
  7. Deep-fry the fishballs in the oil heated to 100-140˚C for 4-5 minutes. If you use fresh oil, you will have pale-browned fishballs. If the oil has been used many times before, they will be dark-colored.
  8. It is done. Note: In the photo at Step 5, you can see a naruto sitting next to the fish cakes. I tried to make it for fun.

Generally, it is called "Satsuma Age" (fish cake). Satsuma-age (薩摩揚げ) is a fried fishcake originating from Kagoshima, Japan. Surimi and flour is mixed to make a compact paste that is solidified through frying. It is a specialty of the Satsuma region. Satsuma Age (薩摩揚げ, さつま揚げ) is a type of fried fish cakes originating from Kagoshima, Japan.

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