Stretch gefilte fish?

mammale ↓

Fri, Jun 21 2024, 10:18 am

Is there a way to stretch a roll of gefilte fish to comfortably feed more people?

What would adding eggs and flour do?
Is there another form to cook it in that would stretch it a bit further?

peachmommy

Fri, Jun 21 2024, 10:25 am

I find that cooking it in fish balls in tomato sauce stretches is further.
I just melt the roll, make the sauce and once is boiling roll balls into the sauce (with very wet hands:)) you can make them pretty small as they blow up a bit

belovedaz

Fri, Jun 21 2024, 11:09 am

Add a bag of frozen mixed veggies to the sauce and serve over spaghetti. This was my favorite supper growing up. Never realized how it was mother's effort to stretch food

Mermaidinexile

Fri, Jun 21 2024, 11:12 am

peachmommy wrote:

If you melt gefilte fish does it still cook regularly? Why did I think it had to be cooked frozen?

↑ mammale ↓

Fri, Jun 21 2024, 11:22 am

Needs to be cooked frozen if you want to retain the shape. It cooks fine defrosted. Sometimes I'll defrost and shape into patties. Another idea I've seen is to defrost and mix with veggies to make different color layers.. hm.. not a bad idea to stretch it!

↑ mammale ↓

Fri, Jun 21 2024, 11:23 am

belovedaz wrote:

Add a bag of frozen mixed veggies to the sauce and serve over spaghetti. This was my favorite supper growing up. Never realized how it was mother's effort to stretch food

smart

lamplighter ↓

Fri, Jun 21 2024, 12:37 pm

There's a recipe on here for stretching gefilte fish. Has a bunch of other ingredients though. Let me see if I can find it

↑ lamplighter

Fri, Jun 21 2024, 12:39 pm

Pink tichels recipe:

Fish Patties:

1 roll of fish, thawed
2 onions, grated
2 carrots, grated
2 stalks celery, grated
2 tbsp. honey
1/2 tsp. black pepper
1 tsp. salt
2 eggs
3/4 c. matzo meal
1 c. bread crumbs
duck sauce

Preheat oven to 350. In large bowl, mix all ing. besides for bread crumbs and duck sauce. Place heaped spoonfuls into bread crumbs and form patties. Baked on greased baking sheet for 10 min on each side. Spoon duck sauce over each patty. Cover pan tightly with foil and bake for additional 20-30 min.

Enjoy!! They're delicious!

Variation: instead of duck sauce, you can use tom sauce

noosheen

Fri, Jun 21 2024, 1:21 pm

I defrost in fridge & cook mine jn oven.
Sauté onions first.
Not sure tho if it stretches that much.

For how many ppple are you looking to feed with it?

↑ mammale

Fri, Jun 21 2024, 4:35 pm

lamplighter wrote:

Amazing! Thank you!

What does it mean to place heaped spoonfuls into bread crumbs and form patties?

Last edited by mammale on Fri, Jun 21 2024, 5:17 pm; edited 1 time in total

ra_mom

Fri, Jun 21 2024, 5:06 pm

mammale wrote:

Amazing! Thank you!

What does it mean to place happier spindle into bread crumbs and form patties?

Mix all ingredients besides breadcrumbs to make a fish batter.
Then scoop out a rounded spoonful of fish batter (like you were forming a meatball) and roll that ball of batter into breadcrumbs- so now you have a breaded meatball. Then pat down the breaded ball to form it into a flatter patty. Repeat until all batter has been used up.