Cooking small fish
Submitted by rails8291 on Tue, 2012-06-26 08:17
Hey fellas how are weall, Herring, whiting. Over the last few weeks I have been getting a few herring and some whiting, usually I use these fish as a live bait or strip bait on my bigger gear, I have heard that these two fish are good on the plate, never tried eating these fish by the way, I'm guessing off with the head, out with the guts and cook them whole, be interesting to know how others cook these small fish, ideas would be great Thanks in advance Rick
squidvicious1
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Head off scaled gutted, and
Head off scaled gutted, and then deep fried like Asians do,nice and crunchy with a beer.
sambo24
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Whiting are my favorite!All
Whiting are my favorite!
All I do is gut, scale, and head. Then roll then in cornflour and fry in oil until the skin is crispy. Simple and delicious!
sammy85
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Herring are nice if u can
Herring are nice if u can get 2 fillets off them and shallow fry in breadcrumbs with lemon yum
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crasny1
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Agree with Sammy
Herring better filleted, and they fillet easy. The skin has a strong flavour which I dont fancy.
Whiting either scaled, gutted etc as above, then small bones and peels easily. Or again fillet, but dont bother skining.
Whiting and butter = supreme tucka
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sandbar
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Scale and
Scale and gut.
Roll in flour and panfry in butter, teaspoon of oil to stop butter burning.
I leave head on to release more flavours.
UncutTriggerInWA
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Herring in the smoker
Can't beat them. Great beer food when cold.
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sea-kem
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My missus rates herring over
My missus rates herring over Dhuie when cooked fresh. Filleted cook skin down until crispy and a quick flick over. Lemon juice, salt and bread and butter top brekky. The whiting I get are quite a good size so I fillet dip in egg and flour and pan fry awesome meal with cold beers.
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Zoggy84
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Altho the whiting can be a
Altho the whiting can be a little small i still fillet em and make em in to fish fingers for my little one.
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carnarvonite
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Herring
Whack herring straight on the hot plate, the scales peel off and the guts shrivels up in a little ball, once the flesh starts to lift its time to pig out.
For bigger size small fish, head and gut , scale and take one fillet of and in to the pan with some butterf. That way you can pick the bones on one side and have a boneless one foe the missus or kids
Stevef
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try cooking a few herring
try cooking a few herring fillets in a pan with some bacon pieces....... slap it all on a bit of toast and they make a bloody nice breakfast
Ian Macca
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Fresh Hearing filleted no
Fresh Hearing filleted no skin and cooked in beer batter!
Whiting scaled headed and gutted fried whole with flour & butter!
Most important to wash down with large amounts of beer!
Uluabuster
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Both Whiting and Herring
Both Whiting and Herring -
Coat them in a mixture of tumeric powder, salty & pepper and water. Marinate for 2 hours.
Deep fried until it turns golden brown. Eat with plain rice.
Love to leave the head and fins on cos once deep fried, they become crunchy & yummy!
dkonig82
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Ok Eric I have to try this
Ok Eric I have to try this now, maybe on the weekend we can get some bait fish also!
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rails8291
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Thanks guys
Thanks guys, lots of different ways there I'll be trying, thanks for the replys
Michael Yoni
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A regular fare on our Wedge
A regular fare on our Wedge trips with whiting in particular is:
Scale, gut, behead, two fillets.
Then place fillets in freshly squeezed lemon juice for about 3-4 hours (in fridge preferably). A hint of parsley, salt and garlic if you choose during that time. Very nice indeed on crusty bread.