How do I cook Perch

Gooey1

I found this in the cottage freezer. Any ideas how to cook some frozen perch?  

NPHuskerFL

CI pan with butter. Thin slice of lemon atop each filet and dusted with S&P or your favorite rub for fish. Blackened is good also. Or do them whole.  Oil the skin, again rub of choice and then just score the flesh and place lemon wedges into the scores. 

Edit: Just noticed these are filets only.

Brisket_Fanatic

Its a nice white flaky fish so one of our favorites with similar fish like crappie is eggwash, then bread crumbs with salt and pepper. Then skillet fry until golden brown. 


I have also cedar planked some with some Cajun seasoning. 

Gooey1

Awesome. I love the CI pan. I will give it a try. 

poster

caught a bunch over the weekend. do I dare say its better than pickerel or I mean walleye? either way its great no matter how you do it. They are a small fish so cook em fast

Gooey1

Thanks @poster and they are called pickerel. Lol. 

onedbguru

dust with cornmeal, s&p and deep fry in butter. 

Roadpuke0

Assume breaded with frying magic and then pan fry in oil.

islanderegger

Flour, egg, and then breadcrumbs. Don't forget to season the flour as Emeril would say.

Philly35

Dip em in shorelunch and fry. 

Botch

poster said:

do I dare say its better than pickerel or I mean walleye? 

 
Blasphemy!!  Stone him!  
My German grandparents fed us lots of perch, northern pike and walleye every Minnesota visit.  NOTHING beats walleye!  

yellowdogbbq

Beer batter walleye are hard to beat but perch are really tasty!  I'm in the bread crumbs or beer batter then pan fry camp for perch. 

poster

Botch said:

poster said:

do I dare say its better than pickerel or I mean walleye? 

 
Blasphemy!!  Stone him!  
My German grandparents fed us lots of perch, northern pike and walleye every Minnesota visit.  NOTHING beats walleye!  

Lol, to be honest just like just like mainstream beers, blindfolded I probably couldn't tell the difference. Pike or snakes as we call them here I can pick out, but only certain sizes and at certain times of year. To me it seems the smaller the fish the better the texture even within the same species.

fishlessman

beer batter deep fried. and to set this straight, pike are pike, walleye are walleye, and pickerel are pickerel, heres a pickerel

poster

there is definitely a regional thing, this is what our local pickerel look like except for the one obviously.

fishlessman

so if a walleye is a pickerel, whats a pickerel called, cause its not a pike

Little Steven

Grass pike. It's pickerel for walleye in eastern Canada.

Little Steven

Gooey1 said:

I found this in the cottage freezer. Any ideas how to cook some frozen perch?  

I saw them in Zehrs last weekend along with the pickerel.

fishlessman

Little Steven said:

Grass pike. It's pickerel for walleye in eastern Canada.

the one i posted is a chain pickerel, not a grass pickerel. i can understand the confusion in canada

Little Steven

Well to start with we speak different languages in our own country. How could you not expect some confusion internationally?

poster

fishlessman said:

Little Steven said:

Grass pike. It's pickerel for walleye in eastern Canada.

the one i posted is a chain pickerel, not a grass pickerel. i can understand the confusion in canada

I need a drink. Im in western Ontario and there is no grass pike or grass pickerel or chain pike or chain pickerel here, hence the confusion with me. We always just assumed that walleye is an American or southern (Toronto) term (sorry little steven I know its not right but most here generalize southern Ontario with Toronto), like northern is to what we call pike. Oh well it all tastes good

Eggcelsior

Little Steven said:

Well to start with we speak different languages in our own country. How could you not expect some confusion internationally?

Don't forget about the superfluous u's.  

fishlessman

Little Steven said:

Well to start with we speak different languages in our own country. How could you not expect some confusion internationally?

yes, i understand that, half my canadian french workers here cant talk to the other half ive seen fists fights happen because one calls a potato one thing and the other calls it something else.

Eggcelsior

@fishlessman
Like this? Totally applies.

https://youtu.be/QDZRjgWgnNM

fishlessman

Eggcelsior said:

@fishlessman
Like this? Totally applies.

https://youtu.be/QDZRjgWgnNM

theres a hard R in chowdah?

Philly35

Northern is pike. Hence the name "northern pike". At least around here.