Ok, You may or may not have seen my post called "A slow day on cooks bay". It was all about an outing that I got skunked on. Well a Friend at work sent out her 82 year old neighbor to catch a fish for me, and show me up. which he did. So he brought me home a beauty white fish. I had never prepared whites before so i started looking into some websites. I found some recipes that I thought looked really good and could not decide so I made for of them.
Here is the Nice Whitey ready for the board
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I New if I was going to serve four dishes I would have to fillet this baby, then I got the idea to cut each fillet into 8 pieces (1.5 Inches each). We were having company and I wanted all four of us to be able to try one piece of each dish
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After I cut each fillet into 8 pieces I then decided to take the advice of some fellow IceShanty members and give the fish a quick boil in salt water to get rid of the fishy taste.
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The First recipe was a bacon wrapped stuffed whitefish with wild rice and Havarti cheese.SO I separated the longest pieces of meet from the middle of the fish and wrapped them with bacon. i then steamed some wild rice and sauteed some of the left over bacon.
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I then combined the mixture of rice and bacon with the Havarti cheese and stuffed them, threw them in the over for about 30 minutes on 375. these next 2 photos are the before and after
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So the second recipe I decided to do was just a simple Garlic butter and Dill fried Fish. This guy speaks for him self. I took the four peices of fish and tossed them with some flour,slat and dill
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I gave the bottom of the pan a healthy dose of garlic butter and fired until golden brown. So simple and very tasty.
The Third recipe was a variantion from the website mentioned above and in a previous post. This is a Sweet and Sour Grilled Whitefish. The recipe called for a mixture of tomato sauce and lemon juice and brown sugar. The simple version I did was mixed one of my favorite spicy honey garlic BBQ sauces with some spicy plum sauce the wife saves for Chinese food. I then gave the fish a good soak for a few hours
and since I had the gas cooktop, the oven and the deep fryer going, I decided not to try to run to the BBQ and just used the trusty George forman grill. works like a charm
For the Fourth and Final recipe I decided to try something different. Deep Fried with a corndog batter. I grab some wooden skewers left over from last years BBQ season and loaded a piece of white onto each
Then I quickly whipped up a very basic corndog batter and gave each piece of fish a healthy coating. (If anyone else has a good corndog batter recipe let me know, mines pretty bland). Then into the fryer until golden brown.
As you can probably guess this was a lot of work, but I timed it perfectly and everything finished up as my friends arrived. I though it was a great way to experiment with a fish I had never really had be for. For my money in the future the garlic fried and bacon wrapped are the tastiest of the recipes. Enjoy, If you made it this far here is a photo of the whole lot as it hit the table
