Curried Fish Cakes Sauce
1980s · typewriter
10 min prep · 20 min cook
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Ingredients
- 1.825 gram canned apricot halves, drained; juice reserved; puréed and sieved
- 2.250 millilitre vinegar
- 3.10 millilitre curry powder, 2 teaspoons
- 4.2 onions, large; sliced
- 5.1 millilitre salt, ¼ teaspoon
- 6.4 ginger snap biscuits
- 7.25 millilitre tomato sauce, 2 tablespoons; ketchup
- 8.12.5 millilitre chutney, 1 tablespoon
Method
- 1.Slice onions. Drain apricots and reserve juice.
- 2.Combine all ingredients except the apricots. Boil altogether until it bubbles.
- 3.When cold, add the apricots and pour over fried fish cakes.
- 4.To make sauce for only 1 kg fish: halve the apricots but not the juice. Also halve the remaining ingredients.
Notes
- Card note: 'This sauce is sufficient for fish cakes made from 2 kg fish.'
- A Cape Malay-influenced sweet curry sauce — also excellent over plain fried fish.
- Serve over Fried Fish Cakes (see separate recipe in this collection).