Healthy Filet O Fish

0 Healthy Filet O Fish

Apr 03

Ok we all have our guilty pleasures and I used to have one for McDonald's Filet O Fish (hangs head in shame.. I was a kid dammit!) What else gave me this idea was I was at my local strip mall and I saw two kids with their mom and they were eating Filet O Fish. Now who knows whats really in that crap from McDonald's but I did a while ago buy a Filet o Fish and bring it home to figure out the flavors and components. So here is my version of mini Filet O Fish sliders which should satisfy any kids who loves a Filet O Fish and a parent who cares about that kids health. Now you can make these regular size and in fact I won't put amounts in you can figure it out if you want to make 24 sliders or regular size buns.

On 03/04/2012 (Tuesday) at 12:11 am by Benny.
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Details

Prep Time:
10 min
Cook Time:
10 min
Ready Time:
20 min

Servings

2 servings

Ingredients

Filet of pollock or any other cheap sustainable fish
american cheese
Panko Bread crumbs
one beaten egg
Martin's Potato Buns either slider size or regular

Tarter sauce

Equal Amount of chopped full sour pickle and japanese mayo regular mayo will not give desired texture or flavor

Directions

Start by making the tarter sauce, this one seems to simple but I tasted the sauce from the McDonald's Filet O Fish and using the Japanese mayo and full sour pickles gave it the desired texture and flavor.

Now filet your pollock, it's like cod but half the price and there is lots of it around so I chose it and the flavor was perfect. What you want to do is cut the portion the same size as the bun you are using see my photo for example.

You want it no more than 1/2 inch thick for the sliders I just sliced it in half after I portioned it and that was perfect.

Now get your breading station ready beaten egg in one bowl and Panko bread crumbs in the next. Filet into the egg wash, shake off excess and then into the panko making sure its really coated well and push in the panko to its evenly coated. These should go into the fridge for 10 min at least to set up.

Now you can deep fry these but I shallow fried them in olive oil. Its healthy and adds good richness to the coating. So hot pan about 1/2 inch of olive oil into the pan when its hot and you can tell by dropping some panko crumbs in and they should sizzle when they do your oil is ready.

Now fry the filets on each side until golden brown and make sure to get the edges as well as you can see I tilted the pan so they would semi deep fry for a min.

Now onto a cooling rack and add the American cheese slice making sure its the same size as the filet but turn it so the edges hang and into a 350 degree oven until the cheese is melted.

Now toast your buns for 30 seconds in the oven then its assembly time.

Bottom bun followed by the fish filet with the cheese, then put a good dollop of tarter sauce don't skimp here make sure again the entire filet is covered and finish with the top bun.

That's it! try this its about as close as you can get to a McDonald's Filet Of Fish but almost guilt free!

Enjoy!

Benny