Boiled Bluegill

Has anybody ever tried boiled bluegill? A former neighbor that I see from time to time tells me that they are top notch if you like boiled shrimp. Here's what I found online. I would add a crab and shrimp boil seasoning pack and some Old Bay but this looks easy enough.

Bluegill Cocktails

Dont have any shrimp ...try this EXTREMELY EASY recipe


6 to 8 Bluegill
Cocktail Sauce

Place whole bluegill in boiling water for exactly 6
minutes. Allow 1 or 2 small fish per serving.

Remove from water, and, with a fork, peel the white
meat from the bone. Salt to taste. Chill thoroughly, and
serve in cocktail glasses with your favorite shrimp
cocktail sauce. Better than shrimp.

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Originally Posted by Williefb

Has anybody ever tried boiled bluegill? A former neighbor that I see from time to time tells me that they are top notch if you like boiled shrimp. Here's what I found online. I would add a crab and shrimp boil seasoning pack and some Old Bay but this looks easy enough.

Bluegill Cocktails

Dont have any shrimp ...try this EXTREMELY EASY recipe


6 to 8 Bluegill
Cocktail Sauce

Place whole bluegill in boiling water for exactly 6
minutes. Allow 1 or 2 small fish per serving.

Remove from water, and, with a fork, peel the white
meat from the bone. Salt to taste. Chill thoroughly, and
serve in cocktail glasses with your favorite shrimp
cocktail sauce. Better than shrimp.

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They really do taste like shrimp. But I do it a little different. I scale the Bluegill and then fillet and boil them. Then just let people pick their own meat off of a bone free fillet. A little work but beats the cost of shrimp.

Add a good amount of SEA SALT to the water and they do taste like shrimp. We have done it with yellow perch and crappie. But have to say that the Bluegill or Bream are the best of the lot.

Redman

been doing it for years and yes its low fat and healthy

Come on guys lets keep this a secret its just that good!!!!!!

Redman

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Originally Posted by Alphahawk

They really do taste like shrimp. But I do it a little different. I scale the Bluegill and then fillet and boil them. Then just let people pick their own meat off of a bone free fillet. A little work but beats the cost of shrimp.

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So basicly its just as good with filets If so how long you boil just the filet.

Just about 2 minutes...of course that depends on how many fillets you dump in the pot. You can do it with the fillets frozen, just like you do shrimp but I have always done it with them thawed. A retired Army cook of 25 years showed me this and when he told me about it I thought he was nuts...LOL. It is a little work but last I checked shrimp is pretty high at the store.

I have done it with a vegetable steamer, steam until the fillets start to flake and pull them out and pop in the freezer to chill then dip them in melted butter yum yum. My grandmother would call them poor mans shrimp :D

Going to try this , thanks
Pat

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Originally Posted by Williefb

Has anybody ever tried boiled bluegill? A former neighbor that I see from time to time tells me that they are top notch if you like boiled shrimp. Here's what I found online. I would add a crab and shrimp boil seasoning pack and some Old Bay but this looks easy enough.

Bluegill Cocktails

Dont have any shrimp ...try this EXTREMELY EASY recipe


6 to 8 Bluegill
Cocktail Sauce

Place whole bluegill in boiling water for exactly 6
minutes. Allow 1 or 2 small fish per serving.

Remove from water, and, with a fork, peel the white
meat from the bone. Salt to taste. Chill thoroughly, and
serve in cocktail glasses with your favorite shrimp
cocktail sauce. Better than shrimp.

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didn't have any gills found some ole crappie tried it hot didn't think much of it tried it cold SUPERB thahks for the receipe

Never tried this one before. sounds good

I have gotta try this !!!!:fish

Got to try this because i luv boiled shrimp

I tried this out yesterday and it was excellent.

Lol... believe it or not, back many years ago the Ar G&F gave this same recipe in one of their quarterly magazines. It's been a favorite of mine ever since. Now, the other recipe given and yes, just as tasty is doing the same with drum fillets of all things. Has the taste of shrimp and the texture of lobster. And yes, it's call poor man's lobster.

I've done it for years, tastes great and much like shrimp, just make sure you boil it until it's barely done and then throw it into an ice bath so it's firm.

Very good for sure!

I've done it a number of times, and it's really good. I've even got my recipe somewhere on the cooking forum. I do filet them and then cut the filets into generous sized or serving strips. You need to simmer, not a rolling boil, until just barely done and still firm and throw them immediately into an ice bath to stop the cooking while they're still firm. You can add some crab boil and lemon juice to the water when boiling if you desire or just add lemon juice to the ice boil.

I was interested to see it works with drum, too. I'm going to have to try that. After years of throwing drum back, I just started keeping them last year, and they aren't bad at all fileted and fried.

They way them down south. They call them redfish. Haha. A drum is a drum. I've tried them they aren't bad.