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I'm just getting ready to leave Rockport. I'm taking some perch home with me and I want to eat them tonight when I get home. Does anyone have a good, quick way to prepare them?
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My personal favorite:

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons paprika
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon ground black pepper
1 pinch of dried dill
1 tablespoon granulated garlic (be wary, garlic can burn if sautee temp too high)
1 egg
1 cup milk
1/2 cup butter
4 fresh lake perch fillets



Directions:

1 Mix flour, paprika, and salt together and set aside.
2 In a small bowl, blend the egg and the milk.
3 Heat butter in a large frying pan.
4 Dip perch fillets in egg wash first and then into the flour mixture.
5 Carefully place them into the hot butter in the frying pan and brown on both sides.
6 Remove from the butter and drain on a paper towel to absorb excess butter.
7 Serve immediately.
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flour and egg your fillets and put em in italian bread crumbs, or you cant go wrong with beer batter, they sell em in boxes and just add a beer. i also have been poaching my fillets to the consistancy of almost crab and then dip em in a little butter and mayo.
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Oh man, you want quick and easy. Fillet them guys, put them in a bowl with butter and lemon pepper, stick them in a microwave til they cook through and eat. Takes about a minute. Usually when I get home with the perch they are being eaten faster than they can be filleted. I'll see if I can find a video of a guy that has the best perch filleting method and see if I can post it. Once I saw that video and tried it I'll never go back, the video has been on here a few times in the past.
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I will let my secret recipe go only to the BFT crowd.

1 cup italian bread crumbs
1 cup Flour
1/4 to 1/3 Cup of Sugar

Mix it all together in a gallon bag

Warm up the Deep Fryer I use peanut oil 400 degrees

Dixie Fry Comes in a white box with two packages

a box will usually do about 50 fillets

about 2 cups of water per the two packages mix in a large bowl set a side an let chill in the fridge while the oil gets hot.

Take your fillets and put them in the dredge bag shake them until throughly coated then take each individual fillet dip them into the Dixie Fry batter until throughly coated I usually use tongs for this and then let them swim in the oil until a golden brown color I usually will have 15 fillets floating in the oil at a time remove and drain on paper towels serve with tarter sauce.

I have never never had a complaint, even from the I don't eat fish crowd, there usually the worst and end up devoring all that I will make.
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[url "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjTlFwQb7D0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjTlFwQb7D0[/url]

Here you go, this is the link on how to clean the perch. Awesome, this guy or whoever started this should have a statue made.[sly]
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[center]One word my friend: P A N K O

You won't be sorry! You know those crumbly breaded butterfly shrimp? Yeah - that's it!

Lots of good prep options. There's some chowders, baking, poaching, pickling, and of course - the FRY.

I gotta go "practice" - maybe I'll take note of what I actually do . . .

I love that video, but the one thing I don't love - is you've still got the ribs in there. Would be great for frying some up on the ice (is that allowed). But if I'm handing it to the kids - they wanna bite right thru!

Can you only do that with perch???
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You can cook them anywhere you want. They do count on your daily limit though.
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cool vid i might have to try that nextime i get some.
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Yeah give it a go, like I said I won't go back any other way. Yote is right about the ribs, but once it is cooked the meat usually will flake off the bone. You might get a few in your mouth but it's a lot quicker and it's easy. Once you've done a few the guy isn't lying about doing it in under 10 seconds. To answer the guy from above, I think he asked if you could do it with other fish. Yes, you can do it with other fish. Mr Costa "the legend" names a few at the beginning of the video.
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+1 on that. That's how daughter and I do it, quick, easy, and no need to fillet or anything!
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I did it with this Cat fish last year.
Catfish Too.

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