Cracker Crumb Blue Fish Filets

Recipe Ingredients

1/4 cup	59ml	Warm bacon fat
1/2 cup	31g / 1.1oz	Diced onion
1 cup	110g / 3.9oz	Washed, finely-diced celery
1/2 cup	118ml	Dry sherry
1/4 cup	36g / 1.3oz	Chopped dill
1 1/2 teaspoons	7.5ml	Celery salt
1 teaspoon	5ml	Freshly-ground black pepper
2 cups	474ml	Unsalted chowder crackers - finely crumbled
2 lbs	908g / 32oz	Blue fish small filets - (abt 4 to 5 filets)
3 tablespoons	45ml	Olive oil
		Salt - to taste
		Freshly-ground black pepper - to taste

Recipe Instructions

Preheat oven to 425 degrees.

In a saute pan over medium heat, heat the bacon fat. Add onions and cook for 4 to 5 minutes, until caramelized. Add celery and cook for 5 minutes more. Add sherry, stir and reduce by half. Add the dill, celery salt and pepper, and combine well. Add crackers and stir to combine. Remove mixture from the heat and cool.

Brush skin of fish with olive oil. Season small bluefish filets with salt and pepper. Place 1/4 cup of the stuffing into center of each filet. Fold/roll tail over to encircle stuffing. Hold stuffed filets closed with tooth pick in center.

Place filets in buttered baking dish, skin-side down. Drizzle any remaining oil over top. Roast in oven for 16 minutes or until center is cooked to 145 degrees.

Serve with drawn butter.

This recipe yields 4 to 5 servings.

Source:
MICHAEL'S PLACE with Michael Lomonaco - From the TV FOOD NETWORK - (Show # ML-1C40)

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