Pork Seed Cakes

Name: Pork Seed Cakes
Ingredients: 2–3 teaspoons black pepper; 2–3 teaspoons salt; 1 teaspoon dill seeds; about 4 tablespoons mashed potato (you can use instant mash if you like as it will be well disguised); fresh breadcrumbs to coat the cakes in (whizz up some stale bits of bread in the blender); 2 tablespoons tomato purée from tube or tin; 2 eggs – beaten; 1 lb minced pork (450 g); 1 teaspoon caraway seeds

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

A Taste of Dreams

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1976

About

These are really a more interesting kind of rissole. I often do them for lunch as adults and children seem to like them equally. Ask your butcher to mince you some ordinary casserole pork To serve I think they go best with a salad.

Ingredients

1 lb minced pork (450 g)
1 teaspoon caraway seeds

Lunch
Main course

Method

In a mixing bowl put all the ingredients and mix thoroughly with a wooden spoon. It should be a fairly stiff mixture which you can easily form into balls – add more mashed potato if it looks too soft. Form to about the size of ping-pong balls and roll all over in the breadcrumbs. Melt some fat in a heavy frying pan and try over a medium heat turning once or twice until t