Modest Mondays is an on-going cooking column in the Star2.com Food channel, edited and curated by home cook writer Jane Ragavan. Each article offers easy recipes for anyone who wants a fast home-cooked meal. <br /><br />In this episode, she shows you how to make Thai-inspired fish cakes. It's a popular street food across Thailand, usually served in morsels, with chilli sauce or a sour tamarind-based dip. It's only in restaurants that the chefs make them the size of ice hockey pucks.<br /><br />Thai fish cakes have all the flavours of Thailand: sweet. sour, salty and spicy, thanks to ingredients like chillies, kaffir lime leaves, belacan and coconut milk. The paste also requires fresh fish. All these are what make the snack so delicious.<br /><br />It’s not easy to get excited about food preparation at the start of a working week. But this three-ingredient fish cake recipe is just the thing for amateur cooks. All you need is one tin of chilli tuna, one large potato, two hard-boiled eggs and a bit of hot oil. <br /><br />Click
