Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, home-made satsuma-age fish cakes. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. 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 easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Home-made Satsuma-age Fish Cakes is something which I’ve 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. Satsuma-age are Japanese fried fish cakes.

To get started with this particular 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 cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Home-made Satsuma-age Fish Cakes:

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

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. Generally, it is called "Satsuma Age" (fish cake). Satsuma-age (薩摩揚げ) is a fried fishcake originating from Kagoshima, 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 (Satsuma-style fish cakes). * This link will take you outside the NHK WORLD website.

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