Hello everyone! This time, I want to share how to make Thai-style fried fish balls with cucumber salad for housewives who want to prepare a special dish for lunch as a family snack, or for dinner. These fried fish balls are crispy and full of flavor, so your family members at home will absolutely love them too. Now then, let's continue reading the cooking method.
Ingredients
- Mackerel fish 400 grams
- About 15 fish balls
- Long beans 50 grams
- Cucumber 1 piece
- Coriander (cilantro) 15 leaves
- Ginger 15 grams
- Egg 1 piece
- Spring onion 80 grams
- Sugar 5 tablespoons
- Vinegar, a small amount
- Salt, a small amount
- Lime 1 piece
- Red chili 2 pieces
- Crushed peanuts 4 tablespoons
- Cooking oil
Step-by-step Method
(1) First, mix 3 tablespoons of sugar with vinegar in a bowl and stir well. Then heat the sugar and vinegar mixture until the sugar dissolves. Once the sugar has dissolved, remove from the heat and let it cool.
(2) Next, as shown in the picture, use a spoon to scrape out only the flesh from the deboned mackerel.
(3) Then, combine the scraped fish flesh with spring onion, ginger, coriander, egg, and chili, and grind them together using a grinder. Once all the above ingredients have been ground, transfer the resulting fish paste into a bowl.
(4) Next, add the thinly sliced long beans into the fish paste and mix evenly.
(5) As the final step, for shaping the fish balls, wet your hands with a little water. This will make it easier to handle the fish paste without it sticking too much to your hands. Take a suitable amount of the prepared fish paste, shape it into a ball, place a ready-made fish ball in the center, and roll it again into a ball.
(6) Once all the fish balls are shaped and ready for frying, pour cooking oil into a pot. Since they need to be deep-fried to become perfectly crispy, you need to add enough oil to submerge the fish balls. Fry them at about 160 degrees for about 2 minutes, and you'll get fragrant, crispy fried fish balls.
(7) For the cucumber salad, cut the cucumber lengthwise into thin slices. Wash the sliced cucumber pieces clean and place them in a bowl. Also thinly slice the red chili and add as much as you like according to your preferred spiciness. Then add the crushed peanuts, sprinkle in some seasoning powder, and squeeze in some lime juice to get a refreshing, tangy, salty, and spicy cucumber salad that will cleanse your palate.
Once everything is ready, arrange them beautifully on your favorite plate, and you can now enjoy the crispy fried fish balls with the tangy, salty cucumber salad deliciously.
Source : Asianfoodchannel
