Help Asap To Help Me Make Meatballs Out Of A Can Of Pilchards

[Henrietta]

Whilst at a party i got talking to a guy and the conversation came up about food and he was telling me about his dear departed grandmother who used to make the best meatballs out of fish and somehow i said that was my specialty and invited him around for dinner.

That night is tonight and i have several cans of pilchards and access to more or less any ingredients withing reason. Please give me a tasty fishball recipe as he'll be here at 9pm and i can't cook for toffee!

[Tilly2]

I'd run up to Sainsbury's if I were you and buy some posh fishcakes.

[excelsior-1]

http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/21480/thai+fish+balls

[Tilly2]

The thing is, you're a bit limited if you've only got cans of pilchards.

[humbersloop]

welcome to AB henrietta

are the pilchards in sauce or oil?

[shoota]

http://www.food.com/recipe/maureens-pilchard-fish-cakes-296923

[Henrietta]

It's not fishcakes tilly2 but fisballs in a tomato sauce with pasta. The pasta i can cook but the tomato sauce and fishballs need to be very good.

Excelsior can i use pilchards instead of white fish and i was told i'd need eggs to bind them???

[excelsior-1]

i see no reason why not

[Henrietta]

Humbershloop their in brine.

Shoota they'd be great for another time but i need to make fishballs that taste like his grandmothers

[Tilly2]

I know you don't want to do fishcakes. It was just a suggestion to get you out of the pickle you seem to be in.

[Henrietta]

Maybe ill do a medley of fishballs and fishcakes as we do have eggs and mash (Students)

[vakayu]

That'll teach you for telling porky pies!!!

[humbersloop]

I'd just bung 'em on toast

[excelsior-1]

http://www.luckystar.co.za/recipes/canned-pilchards/chili-pilchard-fish-balls/

or you couid try this one

[Henrietta]

Thanks i'll get in there and keep checking this thread on my phone in case of any other suggestions.

What's a quick tomato sauce that would go with fish? We have soy, fish sauce and a few others

[Tilly2]

How do you know what his grandmother's fishballs were like?

[Iluvspikey]

she must have been a magician to make MEAT out of FISH!

The only fish fish-ball recipe I know is Jewish Gefiltre fish but you need white fish for that.
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[boxtops]

as spikey says, your post immediately brought to mind gelfilte fish - traditional Jewish fishballs - not the sort of thing you have with pasta at all....

[Hopkirk]

Don't worry, if he's a student he will be glad of anything vaguely edible.

[boxtops]

I would use white fish and salmon if anything - certainly not pilchards!

[Tilly2]

You only have an hour. Go to Sainsbury's.