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Dinner · 20 min · 4 cakes

Pan salmon cakes

The can or leftover fillet. Bind, don't mash to paste. Hot pan, lemon. They should have a crust.

The sheet · 4 cakes · 20 min

easy

Why tonight. The can or leftover fillet. Bind, don't mash to paste. Hot pan, lemon. They should have a crust.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • salmon
  • panko
  • eggs
  • dijon
  • lemon

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: dill.

Method

  1. Flake the salmon in big pieces. Mashed fine it becomes paste and the cake eats like a puck.
  2. Panko soaked in a splash of liquid first so it binds without drawing moisture out of the fish.
  3. Chill the shaped cakes fifteen minutes. Warm cakes fall apart the moment they touch the pan.
  4. Hot pan, decent fat, and no turning until a crust has formed. Lemon and dill to serve.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

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Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

salmon
Fatty enough to forgive a lot, but not overcooking.
panko
Larger, drier and shatterier than ordinary breadcrumbs, which is why it stays crisp when a fine crumb goes soggy.
eggs
The cheapest way to turn a side dish into dinner.
dijon
Sharpness and, more usefully, emulsifying power — a spoonful is what holds oil and vinegar together in a dressing that would otherwise split.
lemon
Acid you add at the end, not the start.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

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