18th - Tuna Fish Cakes, Cous-Cous and a Tomato Sauce

 This meal takes a bit of preparation but is extremely filling and very nice.

Ingredients

• Parsley (handful finely chopped)
• Tuna (2 tins)
• Potatoes (10oz, washed and diced)
• Butter (1tbs)
• 2 eggs (beaten
• Chicken Stock Cube
• CousCous (for 2)
• Lemon (half the juice)
• Boiling Water (enough to cover couscous)
• Red Pepper (cut into squares)
• Tomato Passata

Method

1. Boil and mash the potatoes
2. Add butter, tuna, egg, lemon and parsley and mix well.
3. Put mixture into fridge to cool for 30 mins
4. Place cous cous in a bowl and add boiling water (add stock cube to boiling water)
5. Cover in cling film and place in microwave for 3 minutes
6. Once cooked add the peppers
7. Take mixture out of the fridge and shape into patties
8. Cover in bread crumbs
9. Fry to seal, grill until cooked through
10. Heat up tomato passata until hot
11. Plate up cous cous, fish cakes and add tomato passata to taste

Photographs

Tomato Passata

Cous-Cous with red pepper

Fish Cake Patties

Fish Cakes Frying

Final Dish

This meal was surprisingly tasty , although I do have to work on my plating up skills.

Ease:          (6/10)

Look:           (7/10)

Taste:         (10/10)

Overall:       (23/30)

Anyway got to scoot to go and pick up Jace's wee sis, so won't be putting up another meal (curry) until I get home from work at 2am :S oh the joys.

Laura xo