Thai Fish cakes and Chicken Tagine

This week the group wanted to make something that would warm everyone up on such a miserable day. We thought about what ingredients and recipes we could use to achieve this.

The group decided on some spicy Thai fish cakes to start and a warming Moroccan chicken tagine as a main.

Thai Fish Cakes:

To make these you will need white fish fillets, fish sauce, Thai red curry paste, fresh coriander, spring onions, 1 egg, dried chilli flakes, lime (juice and zest), flour for dusting and oil for frying.

First the group had to chop the coriander, spring onions and fish very finely. 

Cutting up the fish.

We then mixed all the ingredients together in a bowl.

We then shaped the mixture into small fish cakes and dusted with flour, this was a very messy job!

We then shallow fried them.

We then served with a sweet chilli dipping sauce:

Moroccan Chicken Tagine.

For this you will need skinless chicken thighs, onion, garlic, ras el hanout, cinnamon stick, ground ginger, runny honey, tinned chopped tomatoes, green pitted olive and harissa paste.

First we heated a little oil in a pan and fried the chicken to seal in the flavour and moisture, we then added the onions and garlic. Once the onion and garlic and softened we added the rest of the ingredients and let the tagine simmer for 40 minutes.

Once this was cooked we served with cous cous seasoned with spring onions, coriander and lemon juice.

Everyone enjoyed the tagine and said it was especially warming and perfect for a winters day. 

We all had a really good time working together to create these lovely dishes.