230: Tilapia and Sweet Potato Fishcakes, Levi Roots recipe

You wait weeks for a new post and then there's only a starter sized dinner.

I'd got my parentals coming round so wanted a two-course menu for this I decided on a caribbean theme. Act 1 was the winner. This came from Levi Roots's cookbook, unusually for me, I followed the recipe fairly closely. Ingredients:

• 500gs sweet potato
• 3 tilapia fillets (roughly 400gs, these were bone free which made things easy, but they were £2 each - which doesn't make these cheap fishcakes)
• 100gs bread crumbs
• Zest of 1 lime
• Pinch nutmeg
• Salt and peppter
• Flour to dust
• 3 chillies for fun
• The green parts of 6 spring onions (Levi used less - or maybe my spring onions were particularly small)

Method:

• Chop, then boil, then mash the sweet potato
• Poach the tilapia in milk for 5 minutes. Then dry
• Chop chillies finely. Then mix sweet potato, lime zest and chillies
• Flake in fish (Levi says to cut; but it just flaked easy enough)
• Form into 8 fishcakes
• Dust in the flour
• Dust with breadcrumbs (these didn't stick all that well, so I patted them in a bit)

• Fry in Olive oil ~8 minutes

The edges of the fishcakes crisped up really nicely. Inside the texture was pretty crumbly - which I'm not sure if that's the they were intended to be; but I liked it. I could have made them a bit smoother if I'd put the sweet potato through a ricer, or made the fish pieces a bit smaller.

Really good. Many thanks Mr Roots. To be repeated.

PS: I did serve them with a help-yourself-salad.