Nova Scotia salmon cakes

  • Low in lactose

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

  • Good for lunch
  • Good for dinner

Home-style Canadian cakes of cooked pink salmon, potato and parsley.

4 servingsFinal yield 1,050 g

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Ingredients

  • 600 gFish, salmon, pink, cooked, dry heat
  • 350 gPotatoes, flesh and skin, raw
  • 100 gEgg, whole, raw, fresh
  • 80 gBread, crumbs, dry, grated, plain
  • 100 gOnions, raw
  • 20 gParsley, fresh
  • 30 gOil, olive, salad or cooking
  • 600 gBeverages, water, tap, drinking not counted – removed
  • 3 gSalt, table

Method

  1. Cut potatoes and boil 15 minutes until tender; drain the water.
  2. Mash potatoes and combine with salmon, eggs, breadcrumbs, onion, parsley and salt.
  3. Shape eight cakes about 2 cm thick and rest them 5 minutes to firm.
  4. Heat oil to 175 °C and fry cakes in two batches for 4 minutes on each side.
  5. Rest 3 minutes and serve two cakes per portion.

Recipe tradition

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Nutrition

Calculated from the selected ingredients; not a laboratory measurement.

Whole recipe

Energy
1,958.9 kcal
Protein
179.6 g
Fat
76 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
130.1 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
13.3 g
Saturated fatty acids
14.2 g
Sodium
2,467.1 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
6.2 g

Per serving

Energy from macronutrients
Protein: 44.9 g, 37%Fat: 19 g, 36%Total carbohydrate (by difference): 32.5 g, 27%489.7 kcalper serving
  • Protein44.9 g37%
  • Fat19 g36%
  • Total carbohydrate (by difference)32.5 g27%

Share of energy from protein, fat and carbohydrate (4 / 9 / 4 kcal per g), not share by weight.

Energy
489.7 kcal
Protein
44.9 g
Fat
19 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
32.5 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
3.3 g
Saturated fatty acids
3.6 g
Sodium
616.8 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
1.5 g

Per 100 g of finished food

Energy
186.6 kcal
Protein
17.1 g
Fat
7.2 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
12.4 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
1.3 g
Saturated fatty acids
1.4 g
Sodium
235 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
0.59 g

Salt is calculated from sodium (g salt = mg sodium × 2.5 / 1000) and includes sodium from all ingredients.

A dash means the value is unknown, not zero.

Calculation limitations

  • Nutrition is a calculated estimate, not a laboratory measurement.
  • The final yield is an editorial estimate.
  • Some ingredient quantities use documented estimates or household-measure assumptions.
  • The number of servings is an editorial estimate (midpoint of the source range or based on the dish type and energy).
  • Fibre, saturated fat and sodium of cooked ingredients are estimated from the consumed ingredient amounts; for drained ingredients, sodium is included only where the retained amount is an explicit editorial estimate.
  • Some process effects could not be resolved in this calculation.

Allergens

Contains: Gluten, Egg, Fish

May contain: Soy, Milk, Sesame

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

Food data sources

  • USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018-04) · USDA Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central SR Legacy. · CC0 1.0 Universal