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Easy ‘fish’ cakes

By Philipp Ertl from Exceedingly Vegan (www.exceedinglyvegan.com)
Makes 10 | Prep 15 mins | Cook 15 mins | Calories 151 (per cake)
FOR THE FISH CAKES black pepper, to taste 1 Boil 250g potatoes – best to use 5 Form flat patties and then cover
2½ sushi nori sheets FOR THE CASHEW salad potatoes, then you don’t need them in breadcrumbs. The

350g (1¾ cups) firm GARLIC CREME to peel the skin. Let them cool down patties are wet enough for the
breadcrumbs to stick on them.
silken tofu 115g (¾ cup) cashew nuts – this dish works amazingly well with
leftover potatoes. 6 Heat up oil in a pan. Fry the ‘fish’
250g (1 cup) boiled 120ml (½ cup) water
2 Crumple the sheets of nori and put cakes for a few minutes until they
potatoes 2 tbsp lemon juice them into a smoothie blender. Blend are golden brown.
100g (2 cups) ½ tsp salt until they turn into a powder.
breadcrumbs, plus 1 tsp minced garlic 7 To make the cashew garlic creme,
more to cover 3 Transfer the powder into a large add all the ingredients to the
bowl, then add all the other blender you used before for the
½ an onion, finely ingredients to the bowl as well. sushi sheets (give it a quick rinse first,

chopped I prefer my food to be very so the creme doesn’t have a seafood
1½ tsp mixed herbs flavoursome, so I used 1½ tsp salt, taste). Blend for about 1 minute, or
1 tsp minced garlic but you can reduce it to 1 tsp if you until completely smooth – you don’t
aren’t too keen on salt. Also, I used need to soak the cashews before
1-1½ tsp salt
firm silken tofu, which you can get unless you have a bad blender.
in most supermarkets now. You can 8 Serve with a refreshing green salad
also use a normal tofu, but I found and a slice of lemon. Don’t forget
silken tofu was much easier to mix to drizzle some lemon juice on top,
(and it’s more moist, so if you use it will really ramp up the flavour of
any other tofu you may need to add these delicious ‘fish’ cakes.
a bit of water and the flavour might
differ). Also make sure you drain the
water from the silken tofu package
first before you add the tofu.
4 Mix all the ingredients together until
you get a smooth dough. If it’s too
dry, add a bit of water. If too wet,
6.9g 1.3g 0.44g 2.2g 6.3g add some more breadcrumbs.
Total fat Saturates Salt Sugar Protein

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