Southern

Salmon Croquettes

Name: Salmon Croquettes
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 2 14.75 oz cans canned salmon, drained and flaked; 2 large eggs; 1/4 cup onion, minced; 1/2 cup cornmeal; 2 tbsp all-purpose flour; 1/2 tsp black pepper; 1/4 tsp cayenne; 3 tbsp cooking oil; 1 lemon

Arlene @arlene_memphis

Salmon Croquettes is Southern home cooking, eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

25 min Easy Pescatarian Halal Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2 14.75 oz cans canned salmon, drained and flaked
2 large eggs
1/4 cup onion, minced
1/2 cup cornmeal
2 tbsp all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp black pepper
1/4 tsp cayenne
3 tbsp cooking oil
1 lemon

How to cook it

Flake the canned salmon into a bowl, removing any large bones or skin you prefer not to keep.
Mix in the eggs, onion, cornmeal, flour, black pepper, and cayenne until it holds together.
Shape into 8 patties.
Heat the oil in a skillet over medium heat and fry the patties until golden and crisp, about 3 minutes per side.
Drain briefly on paper towels and serve hot with lemon wedges.

Watch how to cook Salmon Croquettes

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Serve it with

A Southern dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Salmon Croquettes, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Fried Okra
  
  25 min
What it is eaten with
- Buttermilk Biscuits
  
  30 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Salmon Croquettes carries gluten, eggs, and fish. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Salmon Croquettes
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	Yes	BBQ Chicken Drumsticks
Shellfish	No
Eggs	Yes	BBQ Chicken Drumsticks
Soy	No
Fish	Yes	BBQ Chicken Drumsticks
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 420 kcal
Protein: 37 g
Carbs: 17 g
Fat: 23 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 760 mg
Saturated fat: 5 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Salmon Croquettes takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.