Crappie Patties

[Wizard]

I caught enough crappie this week to stock the freezer for the winter. Some of the smaller, thinner fillets really aren't worth frying into pieces. I make crappie patties using these fillets by running them through a meat grinder. Any bones left in the fillets are chopped so fine they disappear when cooked.

2 lbs. crappie fillets
2 cups of crushed crackers
pinch of salt
teaspoon of red pepper
medium onion chopped fine
.25 cup chopped celery (optional)
2 large eggs
2 tablespoon of oil

Grind crappie in a meat grinder
Mix all the ingredients together except eggs and oil
Add in the eggs and mix well
Make patties to the size you wish from the crappie mix. Squeeze until it holds together.
Put the patties into the refrigerator to cool for .5 hr.
Place oil into a skillet and heat on med-high.
Place crappie patties in the skillet and cook until each side is brown and crusty.

This also a good way to make blugill patties. If the crappie or blugill are small, cut off the head and organs. You are left with the meat above the backbone. Run the fish through a meat grinder, scales and tails also. The grinder will cut up the scales, fins and bones so small the cooking process will make them disappear. Cook as you would in the recipe above.

Wizard

[Donald Garner]

Sounds tasty    Tks for sharing this with us.

[Oldfart9999]

That sounds really good Wizard!!! Thanks for sharing!!
Rodney

[Lipripper]

That sounds good Wizard I'm going to have to keep that in mind next year when I go Crappie fishing.

[Mike Cork]

I'm thinking this is on my winter cooking list  Thanks for sharing