Vegan Fried Fish Balls are the healthy version of Filipinos’ favorite street food: fish balls dipped in a spicy and sweet sauce! They are super easy to make, delicious and crunchy snacks that you will love and enjoy!
Prep Time15 minutesmins
Cook Time20 minutesmins
Total Time35 minutesmins
Course: Appetizer, Snack
Cuisine: Filipino
Keyword: vegan fish balls
Servings: 4
Calories: 1272kcal
Author: Lainey
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Ingredients
Fish Balls:
2cupswater
½cupdried seaweed or nori seaweed
2cupsall-purpose flour
¼cupcornstarch
½teaspoononion powder
½teaspoonblack pepper
1tablespoonrock salt
1 ½tablespoonsbrown sugar
½cupgrated carrots
2tablespoonsgreen onionssliced
½cupgrated kalabasa squash
2cupscoconut oil
For the Sauce:
2cupswater
2tablespoonssugar
1tablespoonsoy sauce
1teaspoonsalt
1tablespooncornstarch
1teaspoononion powder
½teaspoongarlic powder
2garlic clovesminced
¼cupred onionsminced
Instructions
For the Fish Balls:
In a medium bowl, add 2 cups of water, seaweed and soak until softened, about 10 minutes. Next remove the seaweed from the water, mince the seaweed and place back in the water. If using nori seaweed, mince, then set aside.
In a large bowl, whisk flour, cornstarch, onion powder, black pepper, rock salt and brown sugar until well combined.
Next, gradually add soaked minced seaweed water to the bowl and mix.
Add carrots, green onions, squash, and mix until well combined.
Heat a nonstick frying pan over medium heat and add coconut oil.
Using a spoon, scoop and drop spoonfuls of the fish ball batter into the pan and cook until it’s golden brown. Once it’s cooked, remove from the saucepan, place on a strainer to remove the excess oil, and place on a plate and continue cooking until no more fish ball batter.
Using a bamboo skewer, thread 5-6 fish balls and serve with the sauce.
For the Sauce:
In a medium bowl, add water, sugar and mix until the sugar is dissolved. Then add soy sauce, salt, cornstarch, onion powder, garlic powder and mix until well combined making sure to remove any lumps.
In a saucepan, add sauce and over medium heat bring the sauce to a boil so the sauce can thicken. Keep an eye on it, so the sauce does not burn.
Add garlic and onions and simmer for a minute then turn off heat. Allow the sauce to cool and set aside sauce.