Crispy fish balls with sweet and sour sauce
https://www.coop.co.uk/recipes/crispy-fish-balls-with-sweet-and-sour-sauce
Host your own Chinese New Year party and make these easy fish balls – the homemade sauce is delicious, but sweet chilli sauce would work just fine.
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Feeds
4
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Ready in
30 minutes
Each serving contains
% of adult’s reference intake | Carbohydrates per serving : 20g
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Ingredients
- 2 x 200g packs Co-op Irresistible jumbo cooked king prawns, roughly chopped
- 225g can water chestnuts, drained
- 4 spring onions, roughly chopped
- 2cm ginger, roughly chopped
- 1 red chilli, deseeded and chopped, plus extra slices to garnish
- 2 tsp Co-op reduced salt dark soy sauce
- 3 tbsp cornflour
- Vegetable oil, for frying
- Coriander leaves, to garnish
- For the sauce:
- 1 tbsp Co-op tomato ketchup
- 1 tsp chilli sauce
- 1 tsp Co-op clear honey
- 2 tsp oyster sauce
- 1 tsp Co-op toasted sesame oil
Method
- To make the fish balls, put the chopped prawns in a food processor with all the remaining ingredients, apart from the oil and coriander
- Blitz until you have a paste, then place the mixture into a bowl and chill for 30 mins
For the sweet and sour sauce:-
- Whisk everything together in a small bowl and set aside until you’re ready to serve
- Heat 3cm oil in a large frying pan — it’s ready when a cube of bread dropped in turns brown in 30 seconds
- Working in batches to make 16, shape heaped tablespoons of the fish mixture into balls, then fry for 1-2 mins on each side or until golden
- Remove with a slotted spoon and put on kitchen paper while you cook the others
- Garnish the fish balls with the coriander and chilli, then serve with the sauce
