My Family's Favourite - Tuna Potato Cakes

This is a recipe of the savoury snack which my family loves.  Very easy to make, just a little bit cumbersome and you need to be patient but the effort is worthwhile.

Tamie's Tuna Potato Cakes

You need these and 1/2 bag of potatoes to start with.

Oh, you also need these ... including Japanese breadcrumbs, which you can buy most of supermarkets nowadays. If you can't find them, you can use normal breadcrumbs to make fish & chips or go to Chinese supermarket and head for Japanese food section. 

First,  you boil potatoes with some salt. Mash them and add chopped parsley, coriander, 1 - 2 chilli (deseeded) and spring onions.  I like a little bit of kick so I usually leave little bit of chill seeds.

Add a tin of tuna steak, not tuna chunks (they are awful...).

Squeeze lemon juice to the mixture. Mix again and taste. If you want you can add more salt.

Now, the next step - you need flour, egg and Japanese panko breadcrumbs for coating.

Take a small handful of tuna potato mixture to make into balls and coat them well with flour.

Next, dip these into egg.

Then dip them into Panko breadcrumbs.

1/2 kg of bags of potatoes make about 12 - 14 potato cakes.

Fry them in oil. I don't have deep fryer so I just shallow fry them. Deep flying them would probably result better.

Fry them until golden colour...

And that's it! Easy. Best eat right away whilst they are still hot. You can eat them with any sauce you like. We like to eat these with mixture of tomato ketchup and Japanese brown sauce or mayonnaise.

Try making these this holiday weekend!

That's all forks.