Salmon Patties For Kids

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These salmon patties for kids are a fast and easy mid week meal which everyone seems to love. It’s a great way to use up any leftover mashed potato and each Salmon cake is pretty much a full meal for picky little ones.

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Salmon Patties

Do your kids like fish? Two of mine would eat frozen supermarket fish fingers and that was it. Seriously. Try as I might to feed them other mostly ready made fish dinners they refused.

When we started eating Clean one of the things I wanted to do was to introduce some more fish into the kids diets. I’m not talking about anything exotic like a mussel dish or anything (I’m a simple home cook!). Just regular, pretty simple fish recipes.

One of the first fish dinners I made from scratch was these homemade fish fingers and to my absolute amazement they all ate them. And then asked for them again. After that I got creative and started using fish more in my cooking :)

These salmon patties for kids are a simple, non-fussy recipe that kids love.

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I use canned salmon for these mostly, unless I happen to have some fresh salmon I’ve bought on offer, but usually, it’s canned salmon and so that’s what I’ve used in this recipe. This also makes them a good pantry staple for those times you find yourself with some leftover mashed potato.

Mini Salmon Cakes

If I am making these salmon cakes for appetizers or for school lunches, I shape them a little smaller so that I get around 16 small patties.

The lunchbox version goes like this: Each child gets four salmon patties in their lunchbox with a fresh wedge of lemon.

In my opinion, they taste even better served cold.

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Can you Substitute Canned Salmon for Fresh Salmon?

Yes! You can most definitely use fresh salmon in this recipe.

Fresh salmon is expensive where I am, so this is my version of a budget salmon dish. I used canned salmon to keep within my grocery budget, but if you have fresh salmon, that works well too.

You will need about 1/2 pound of cooked fresh salmon (about 1 cup of prepped and cooked salmon).

More Fish Recipes:

• Grilled Fish Tacos
• Shrimp and Cous Cous Foil Parcels
• Homemade any day fish fingers
• Easy butter baked lemon fish

Make Ahead

You can make these up to 2 days ahead and store them in the fridge until you need them.

I would make them right up to the point where you fry them until golden brown and then let them cool down and put them into the fridge. When you then want to eat them, put them into a hot oven and finish them off as per the recipe.

Leftovers

Leftovers of these salmon patties go into lunchboxes in this house!

I often make these especially for lunchboxes, they’re so easy to make and really lovely cold the next day with a twist of lemon. They also travel well and so are good sitting in a lunchbox until lunchtime.

You can pop them into the lunchboxes straight from the fridge and they’ll have reached room temperature by lunchtime. Yum :)

How to Cook Fresh Salmon for this Recipe

Keep it simple by oven baking your Salmon with a little olive oil, salt and pepper.

• Preheat your oven to 350’F / 180’C.
• Place the salmon on a sheet pan, skin side down. Brush with olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
• Bake for 15 minutes, until just cooked. Then remove from the oven, cover and refrigerate until cold. 
• Remove the skin, flake and debone your salmon fillet and substitute for the canned salmon in this recipe.

How to Serve your Salmon Cakes for Dinner

You can serve up you Salmon cakes in a couple of ways: 

• With a Salad, fresh lemon and a side or Tartar Sauce (I love this recipe from IFoodReal)
• Serve hot with mashed potato, freshly steamed veggies and a simple white parsley sauce.
• Fast food kind of dinner with a side of Oven Baked fries and fresh lemon wedges (my kids favorite)

How To Make Salmon Patties For Kids

Ingredients

• 3 x 6 ounce cans Salmon Drained and flaked. Check for and remove any bones. (You will need around one cup of salmon if you are using fresh salmon)
• ½ cup Mashed potato Use leftover or simply mash a boiled potato
• 1 cup Frozen corn Thawed
• ½ cup Breadcrumbs READ RECIPE – Step 2 uses HALF the breadcrumbs
• 1 tsp Lemon zest Grated
• 1 Egg Lightly beaten
• 2 tbsp Olive oil
• ½ tsp Salt
• ¼ tsp Black pepper
• 1 tbsp Fresh parsley Finely chopped

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F / 180c
• Mix the salmon, corn, egg, ½ the breadcrumbs, parsley, lemon zest and salt and pepper in a bowl
• Form eight ¾-inch-thick patties and freeze them for around 5 minutes until just firm
• Put the remaining ¼ cup of breadcrumbs on a plate. Press the salmon cakes in the breadcrumbs to coat both sides
• Heat the olive oil in a large ovenproof skillet over medium-high heat
• Add the salmon cakes (cook 4 at a time if they don’t all fit in the pan) and cook until golden brown, 3 to 4 minutes per side
•  Transfer the salmon cakes to the oven and bake until for another 6 – 8 minutes to finish off cooking
• Serve with a salad, fresh lemon and a side or tartar sauce

Salmon Patties For Kids Recipe