Panko Crusted Salmon Fishcakes with Garlic Yogurt Sauce

These tasty fish cakes come together quickly using canned salmon for an easy weeknight meal, but if made smaller could be served as a great appetizer. 

Ingredients:

1 - 213 g can sockeye salmon, drained 
1/2 cup mashed white potato (no milk)
1/2 cup mashed sweet potato 
1  1/2 tbsps Old Bay, or other seafood seasoning
1 head of garlic, roasted (half in mix, half in sauce)
2 eggs
2-3 tsps fresh thyme
1/3 cup finely chopped green onion 
1 cup Panko bread crumbs
1/4 cup coconut oil for frying

Garlic Yogurt Sauce:
1/3 cup plain yogurt
the other half of the roasted garlic
1/4 tsp of salt
1/4 tsp pepper
pinch of paprika
1 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped

Lime to serve

Bake both small white and sweet potatoes in the oven or microwave, then cut opened to cool and mash with a fork.

To roast the garlic head cut 1/4" off the top of the head and remove the papery outer layer. Drizzle a little olive oil on top and you may want to sprinkle with salt and pepper.

For oven roasting wrap in foil and roast in a 400 F oven for 30-35 minutes. If you are cooking the potatoes in the oven this step can pretty much be done at the same time.

However, if you happen to have leftover cooked potatoes and want a quick "roasted" garlic head then sit the drizzled head in a small bowl with 1  1/2 tbsps of water. Sit a small plate on top and microwave for 3 minutes. Check for softness then return to the microwave for 1 or 2 minutes at a time until the garlic is soft.

Whichever way you choose to cook the potatoes and garlic, once cooled the potatoes and HALF the garlic can be mashed together. (Reserve the other half of the garlic for the sauce)

Add the Old Bay, eggs, thyme and green onion and mix well. Finally fold the salmon in mashing slightly to hold but try to not break up all of it.

Form the mixture into balls. I made 7 the size of a small apple. Roll the balls in the bread crumbs and gently press down to about 1" thickness. Don't put all the Panko in the bowl at once in case you don't need it all.

Heat the coconut oil in a frying pan to a medium low to medium heat. Cook the patties about 2 minutes on each side or until golden.

For the sauce, mash the reserved half roasted garlic and add the rest of the sauce ingredients.

Serve with a squeeze of lime and dollop of Garlic Yogurt Sauce.