LIBBY'S SALMON CROQUETTES 
1 potato
1 can pink salmon
1 small chopped onion
1 cup yellow cornmeal
1/2 cup flour
1 tsp. Lawry's seasoned salt
1/2 tsp. black pepper

Cook onion and potato in a small amount of water until tender; drain and mash. Drain salmon and remove bones and skin, break up with a fork.

Combine potato mixture, salmon and 1 egg; set aside. Heat about 1 1/2 cups vegetable oil in a skillet, until hot but not smoking.

Mix cornmeal, flour, seasoned salt and black pepper. Shape salmon mixture into small balls to make croquettes. Roll in cornmeal mixture, and fry in hot oil until brown on all sides, drain on paper towels.

Submitted by: elizabeth carter

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Libby's Salmon Croquettes
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 Jillian (Nevada) says:
Wonderful and very easy and tasty recipe!
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 Annette Spaulding (Virginia) says:
Thank you for a simple, quick and easy recipe. Almost as good as my moms!
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 Nails (Virginia) says:
I've made a lot of salmon croquettes and NEVER EVER removed the bones and skin. Once you combine and mix the canned salmon with the other ingredients, you will never see them again.

Libby did not specify the size of her canned salmon. My wife and I are not HUGE eaters, but the two of us will easily finish croquettes made from a small can. If we use a large can, we fry and set the croquettes for lunch or supper the next day.

I add RAW onions to the salmon. 3 - 4 minutes in hot oil is all they need to soften them.

If you don't have a potato, some crumbled saltines or Ritz crackers work well as a filler/binder.

Hard to know what "small balls" are. I make 2" x 3" oval patties that are ~3/4" thick.

You may want to use finely ground cornmeal or cornmeal flour. The larger flakes of corn can get hard during frying.

REMEMBER: The salmon was cooked when you started and you cooked the potato. The only RAW ingredient is the egg. You are frying the croquette to heat it, brown the outside and cook the egg.

Serve with ketchup, chili sauce or mayo/sour cream dill sauce. A little red rice as a side dish wouldn't hurt.

 

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