Crispy Fish Balls - Homemade

Ingredients: 

• 1 pound of white fish (I used 2 frozen basa fillets I had in the freezer…a bit less than a pound)
• 1/3 of a jalapeno pepper (use more or less depending on how spicy you like it)
• 1 inch cube of fresh ginger
• 1 1/2 inch piece of a thick carrot
• 2 cloves of garlic (I’m sure I used more, I always use more with garlic)
• 1 small shallot
• 1 tablespoon of fish sauce (optional)
• Salt (salt is unnecessary to salt frozen fish)
• Ground black pepper
• 1/2 cup of bran cereal, whole wheat flour, oat flour, whatever flour you’d like (I made these during Passover so I used matzah ball mix and it worked perfectly)

1. Process the fish until it becomes a paste, then transfer to a bowl. I used a food processor, but I’ve seen it done using the back of a chopper knife on a cutting board. (Probably more traditional Asian. If you don’t have a food processor then that will work.)



2. Process jalapeno, carrot, ginger, garlic, and shallot. Add to the bowl of fish paste. (If you don’t have a food processor, you’ll have to samurai chop those veggies to bits.)







3. Mix it all together and season with black pepper (and salt if needed). Roll the fish paste into small bite-sized balls.



4. If you are using bran cereal, grind it up. If not, have whatever flour you’re using in a small bowl. Roll each fish ball in your bran/flour until all sides are coated. I used matzah ball mix (for Passover purposes).







5. Heat a pan on medium heat and spray with cooking oil to keep the fish balls from sticking.

6. Once heated, place all your coated fish balls into the pan and keep rolling them around until they’re nice and crispy and a golden colour. It’s hard to make them a perfect ball. Mine kind of flattened out and became a little angular, and I may have over-browned them a bit…but they were delicious.








7. Serve them right away, with a spicy sauce. While they’re still nice and hot! I served mine with a sweet chili sauce and a horseradish ketchup (kind of like a hot cocktail sauce).



 


Credit:

https://thishungrykitten.com/2013/04/05/a-healthy-alternative-to-asian-fish-balls-and-why-your-fish-balls-should-be-homemade/