Flathead Recipes Plzz

[BillyT2382]

Heya guys..Does anyone have any really good Flathead Recipes apart from killing it with too much seasoning like the girlfriend did...now she hate's flathead..lol

Cheers guys
Billy

[SCOTTYGC]

Deep fried in a nice light beer batter

[BillyT2382]

Oooh thats sounds yummm..cheers Scotty

[HeadBanger]

Deep fried in a nice light beer batter


The best way to have flatty fillets8-)

Cheers,
Kaidon

[bennykenny]

if you want to make a really light crispy batter, try this, get a bowl of soda water and slowly whisk some plain flour into it until it just gets thick enough to lightly coat your finger. dont make it too thick or it wont be so crispy, a little flour at a time til you think its right, then deep fry it. will be the best batter you have tried.cheers BK

[thriller]

small fillet pieces, cooked on the BBQ, pour some beer over it as its cooking, Yum Yum

[braders83]

Crazy, this is one for your Mrs.
Cook the flatty as per normal in a pan, butter, salt and pepper and a squirt of lemon.
In a separate bowl I sometimes make a tomato and avocado salsa mix. Just chop tomato, avocado, red onion, some olive oil and salt and pepper and a squirt of lemon.
Not bad to have as a side with the flatty. If your mrs likes it, she might expect you to catch more fish!
Enjoy mate.

[Floating Rib]

Mate if you like salt and pepper squid ive been doing all types of fish cut small and thin the same way, dip in egg, dust in flour salt/pepper mix and shallow fry in wok, plenty of recipes on the net for the amounts of salt and pepper in the mix which you can adjust to taste (small whiting fillets especially nice) other than this i bone, skin and fry in butter with a few good squeezes of lemon or lime whilst cooking and a little salt pepper, needs nothing more.

[Mrs Ronnie H]

Hi
i just do small pieces in homemade breadcrumbs or beer batter. Just roll in flour and fry in butter is another way.
Too many people add heaps of herbs and spices and other stuff that defeat the purpose of the fish taste.
keep it simple and enjoy the taste of the fish not the herbs and spices or chili or garlic etc.

Ronnie

[clevelandv8]

if you want to make a really light crispy batter, try this, get a bowl of soda water and slowly whisk some plain flour into it until it just gets thick enough to lightly coat your finger. dont make it too thick or it wont be so crispy, a little flour at a time til you think its right, then deep fry it. will be the best batter you have tried.cheers BK

To guarantee your batter is extra crispy, do as above, BUT.... make sure your oil is ready, and when it is, add a hand full of ice cubes to the batter mix (make above batter a little thicker), whisk the ice around until right consistency, dip in fish then straight into oil.
The batter will be extremely cold, and thus giving the reaction to the oil making it crisp and uneven.

[Spin]

Skinned not scaled. for Flathead
That's the most important thing.

[BillyT2382]

Awesome tips from everyone thank you...But i am not gunna tell her your guys secrets because she'd want to taste it and HELLOOO..hahaha yes she will definately make me "FISH" more and more and more...hehehe;)

Thats! the plan..:-X;D

Cheers
Billy

[tunaticer]

I like to slice the flathead into strips about 1cm thick and wide and about 5cm long, throw them into a plastic bag with 90% rice flour and 10% dusted salt thats premixed evenly. Shake it around to coat the fish chips then drop them into really hot oil in the deep fryer for about 30 secs. they golden up quick and taste superb as a snack whilst watching the box or DVD's. Use them as dippers in salsa or tartare sauce if you wish.

[gruntahunta]

Best way to eat Flathead is not to eat it...I agree with ur misus...YUK

Give me a crispy skinned whole Bream everyday of the week.

[bennykenny]

To guarantee your batter is extra crispy, do as above, BUT.... make sure your oil is ready, and when it is, add a hand full of ice cubes to the batter mix (make above batter a little thicker), whisk the ice around until right consistency, dip in fish then straight into oil.
The batter will be extremely cold, and thus giving the reaction to the oil making it crisp and uneven.
as i said in my post dont make it thick or it wont be so crispy, using cold soda water will be enough to get that reaction, or keep it in the fridge until your ready to use it.

[Horse]

Best way to eat Flathead is not to eat it...I agree with ur misus...YUK

Give me a crispy skinned whole Bream everyday of the week.

Each to their own I suppose but in my opinion river or estuary Bream are pretty low on my food chain while fresh, skinned, boneless Flatty fillets are right up with the best of them. Deep fry in a light Beer Batter or Tempura and they are outstanding

[PinHead]

any form of batter is yuck. Just roll the fillets in some flour and into than pan. Why alter the taste of fish with anything?

[alleycat]

First of all make sure you skin the flahead then take out the bones, youtube has an example, then cut into pieces a bit bigger ie longer than your thumb, lightly batter and thats it, i find it beats snapper hands down.
Batter is 1 cup self raising flour, 1 cup soda water or beer, add more to get thickness you desire, 1 teaspoon baking powder and a pinch of salt..yummmmmmmmmmmmmm

[nathank]

Heres something a bit different... chop up the flathead tails and place in a bowl with some blanched rice vermicilli,corriander,beanshoots,finely sliced red capsicum and basil.. (only use fresh herbs).. bind with a tiny bit of abc soy sauce.
Wrap the mix into springroll wrappers and pan fry in hot oil..... dip em in ginger mayo....
If she doesnt like it...
wot am i talking about lol of course she will :)