Crispy Fried Whole Fish with Bacon-Potato Salad

- Main Ingredient: Various Fish Trout Eggs Potatoes
- Course: Various Main Dishes
- Yield:
Crispy Fried Whole Fish with Bacon-Potato Salad ingredients
- 1⁄2 lb small red bliss potatoes
- 5 sli bacon, -- julienned
- 1⁄4 c Balsamic vinegar
- 2 T Chopped scallions
- 2 T olive oil
- Salt and black pepper
- 2 c flour, -- in all
- 2 T Creole spice
- 2 Eggs
- 2 small Trout
- Chopped parsley, -- for garnish
Cooking Crispy Fried Whole Fish with Bacon-Potato Salad
1. Boil potatoes until tender; drain.
2. While hot, cut potatoes into a bowl.
3. Cut ini half if small, in quarters if larger.
4. Meanwhile, in a large skillet, preferably cast-iron, cook bacon until crisp.
5. Using a slotted spoon scoop up bacon pieces and add to potatoes with vinegar, scallions and 1 tablespoon oil, season and set aside, keeping salad warm.
6. To skillet of bacon grease add remaining oil and heat until bubbly.
7. In a shallow bowl combine flour and 1 tablespoon of Creolei spice.
8. In another shallow bowl whisk eggs with a pinch of seasoning.
9. Seasoni fish with remaining spice.
10. Dredgei fish in seasoned flour, shaking off excess; dip in egg wash; dredge again in flour and place immediately in sizzling skillet.
11. Cook until golden and crisp, flip it over, reduce heat and finish cooking, about 8 minutes.
12. Spoon potato salad onto 2 dinner plates and top with fish.
13. Garnishi with chopped parsley.


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