POTATO, SALMON, AND SPINACH PATTIES
The idea of combining potato, salmon, and spinach was a good base, but this needed a ton of help in the flavor department because the recipe adds nothing to the patties – just dill and garlic in the accompanying sauce, which I didn’t make (the garlic and dill would have been better used inside the patties).
I added minced red onion and a dollop of zhoug. Meant to add mustard but forgot.
Based on the texture of the mixture, eggs would have made it too soft to form patties so I skipped them. Also no panko inside because the flavor was already weak.
Started by pan-frying on the stovetop and finished them in the oven, which crisped up the panko coating nicely.
Most of the comments had flavor additions – onions, scallions, capers, and so on. One that sounded particularly good was to use these in a taco with chipotle mayo.
I wouldn’t have thought to add spinach to a fish cake, but it worked.
