Saturday 10 September 2016

Globecooking recipe : Accras de morue / cod fritters (Martinique)


Accras de morue, as they are known in French, hail from the island of Martinique and they are a popular dish even in mainland France. They are usually much smaller than this but I went for large chunky ones to save time and effort ! They used two ingredients from my Martinique-themed Kitchen Trotter box : Indian wood leaves (which you could leave out) and the worryingly named dog sauce mix, which is a mixture of garlic, dried onion, parsley and chilli.

 Accras de morue / cod fritters

ingredients :

400g cod
250g flour
200ml water
1tsp baking powder
10g dog sauce spices (a mix of garlic, dried onion, parsley and chilli)
2 Indian wood leaves
1 onion
2 cloves of garlic
1 lime
salt, pepper
vegetable oil for frying


Put the cod in a big pot of cold water with the whole garlic cloves and the Indian wood leaves. Bring to the boil then turn off the heat and drain the fish. Leave to cool.


Remove the garlic and leaves. Put the fish in a bowl and mash it up.


Remove any bones that you can see sticking out of the fish. Finely chop the onion.


Add the onion and the dog sauce mix to the fish.


Put the flour, baking powder and water in a separate bowl and mix to form a dough.


Mix the mashed up fish into the dough. Chill in the fridge for an hour.


Heat the vegetable oil in a deep pan or a deep fat fryer. Drop spoonfuls of the mixture into the hot oil and cook on both sides until golden brown.


Drain off the excess oil on kitchen paper. Serve hot or cold, as nibbles with a dip, or with rice and salad as a main meal.

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For more Martiniquan dishes, you might like to try my recipes for Mango Blancmange CrumblePork & Sweet Potato Colombo or Poulet Roussi (Scorched Chicken).

10 comments:

  1. These l99k delightful and east to make =will try these one evening fot tea

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  2. They look really good! This could be a great way of using any leftover fish if it were freezable!

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    1. Definitely - I was thinking it might work with a tin of tuna or salmon too, so I may have to investigate !

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  3. They look nice but dog sauce mix! I am not sure about that name

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    1. I've been trying to find out where the name comes from and now I know - there is a manufacturer of knives in Martinique called "couteaux chien" and the knife, used to cut the ingredients up, gave its name to the sauce - phew !

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  4. I love accras!! Thanks for sharing this!

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  5. Sound fab and definitely another one to try, thanks for sharing

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  6. I want some dog sauce mix! Cod fritters look yummy.

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