Perch Recipes, a Fresh Water Fish; Great When Learning How to Cook Fish

Perch recipes are sometimes favored when having an outdoor fish fry. Fish fries held on the banks of a fishing stream offers a festive ways of cooking and eating fish freshly caught by the members of your party. Have a large iron kettle with hot oil ready on an open fire for when the fish are cleaned. After the fish is fried, have some hush puppies ready to fry in the hot oil. These go well together. Salads or fresh vegetables can be prepared ahead of time and made readily available in a cooler.

FRIED FISH BREADING: Beat together 1 cup milk and 1 egg until well blended. In another bowl combine 2 cups cornmeal, ½ cup flour, 1 teaspoon salt and ¼ teaspoon pepper. Dip perch or other fish into the egg mixture and them roll in the cornmeal mixture. Carefully drop into the hot oil to fry until lightly brown.

HUSH PUPPIES

• 2 Cups cornmeal


• 1 Teaspoon salt


• 2 Teaspoons baking powder


• 1 Finely chopped onion


• 1 Cup milk

Mix all ingredients thoroughly together. Shape into small balls and fry in hot oil until light brown. Serve with fish.

Some of the fish and seafood that are suitable for frying are bass, butterfish, carp, catfish, clams, cod, eel (parboil for 10 minutes first), flounder, haddock, halibut, mackerel, perch, pickerel, pike, salmon, shad, smelt, trout, weakfish and whiting. A tartar sauce, lemon butter sauce, Creole sauce or hollandaise are all good to serve with fried fish.

Like other perch recipes the following can be substituted with any of your favorite frying fish.

OVEN FRIED FISH

Preheat oven to 350F degrees.

Grease a baking dish. Season fish lightly by sprinkling it with salt. Dip fish into milk and then roll into fine bread crumbs (not cracker crumbs). Place in the baking dish. Place a couple slices of bacon over the top of the fish. Bake for 20 to 30 minutes or until the fish flakes when touched with a fork.

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