Baked Croaker with Cracked Peanuts

Laurita's Note:

A friend gave me a croaker he caught in the Chesapeake Bay on his vacation. Never had the pleasure of eating croaker before. I've learned it's a sweet tasting bottom-feeder fish (from up north!) Other than cleaning it, the recipe is soooo simple and awesome tasting! The fish flakes right away from the bone, doesn't have a strong fish taste, and tastes incredible! Makes me want to go fishing up north so I can get "a whole mess of 'em"!!

• Total Time: 20 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 1

• 1 croaker fish
• vegetable oil
• toast
• peanuts
• pepper

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 500 degrees.
2. Place a baking pan in the oven large enough for the amount of fish you are going to bake.
3. Clean the croaker leaving in the center bone strip.
4. Coat fish with oil.
5. Finely chop peanuts and toast to make bread crumbs.
6. Roll the oiled fish in the bread crumb/peanut mixture, sprinkle with pepper.
7. Put fish on pan and cook at the high temperature for only 10 minutes.

Reviews

[Chef #891900]

I have cook this twice. Once for myself and then for my wife and daughter. I loved it and so did my wife and daughter.

[WV Mermaid]

4 stars for this tastey, easy recipe. The peanut/crumb mixture is fine on its own; however, I'd like more zing to it like some mustard. Don't know if that would burn in the oven. 500 degrees is pretty hot; and some of the crumbs around the fish charcoallized. Solutions, anyone? I found the crumb crust wouldn't stick well to the fish, despite the oil. The fish has tiny bones in it so elderly persons may not want to eat it unless someone can suggest a way to get the tiny bones out easily. I made this with fish skin on and it was fine.

[Sunshine21]

This was awesome, I have never had such a tasty fish. We caught them and didn't know how to cook them, so hit the internet! lol! This was easy enough even though cleaning them was gross. The peanuts make the crust fantastic! Thanks for teaching me to be a good cook, my whole family was impressed.