Easy Homemade Fish Ball Recipe

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Easy Homemade Fish Ball Recipe! Do you know that making fish balls is as easy as 1-2-3? Here are the detailed instructions. Read the tips!

Prep Time30

Cook Time17

Course: Appetizer

Cuisine: filipino cuisine

Servings: people

Calories: 166kcal

Author: Shobee

1/2 lb Cod Fillet and clean. make sure that there are no bones. Slice into bite-sized pieces.
1/2 lb Shrimp deveined and cleaned, Slice into bite-size pieces.
1/2 lb squid optional
2 tablespoons garlic minced
1/4 cup onion chopped
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon white ground pepper
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup corn starch
2 tablespoons canola oil
1 large egg

Place the fish, shrimp, and squid in the processor. Add the rest of the ingredients. Process until it forms into a fish paste. Transfer to a container and cover. Let the fish paste sit in the fridge for at least thirty minutes. This will ensure that all of the ingredients stick together to make it easy to form into a ball.

Transfer mixture in a large bowl and wet your hand with water.This will make the fish balls not stick in your hands.
Boil six cups of water in a large saucepan.
Grab a handful of the mixture and squeeze in between your index finger and thumb. Scoop out using a spoon form into a ball and drop into the boiling water. When the fishball floats, it is cook.
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ou can also do this. Wet your hands with water.Scoop one and half tablespoons of the mixture and form into a ball.
Let it cool down and freeze.

When you are about to eat it, you can cook it frozen or thawed.
Heat one-fourth cup of oil and fry the fish balls until golden brown. String them into a skewer and dip into the fish ball sauce.

3 Ways to Cook Fish Balls

Hot Pot: Place cold water into a deep bowl and set it aside. Place eight cups of water in a large pot and let it boil. Scoop a tablespoon of the fish paste and using another spoon, form the fish paste into a ball a drop it into the boiling water. Let the fish paste cook for three to five minutes. While the fish balls are cooking and remove the fish from the pot and submerge in cold water.
Deep fry- Heat oil in a large frying pan and form the fish paste into a one-inch ball. Gently drop the fish balls in the hot oil and fry until golden brown on all sides.
Pan Fry. FOr the fish paste into the three-inch cylinder and for similar thickness as a hamburger. Fry the paste in