Striper Recipes - striper meat is a very clean and very mild tasting fish.  Always pull the "red meat" out before cooking and prior to freezing the fillets to eliminate the strong fish flavor.  Here's a few of our favorites:

Bacon Wrapped Striper     

The Marinade:

½ c. soy sauce

¼ c. brown sugar

2T. Worcestershire sauce

1T. liquid smoke

2  chopped garlic cloves

½ t. seasoning salt

¼ t. 6 Pepper Spice or spices of your choice

The Fish: Medium sized striper fillets - cleaned with the "red" meat removed                               

Mix all ingredients in a zip lock bag.  Add striper fillets.  Marinade for 2 hours or more. 

Lay one fillet on strip of bacon and roll up beginning at the small end of the fillet. Once wrapped, insert 2 toothpicks to secure the bacon and maintain the roll.  Spray grill rack with Pam, preheat and place striper rolls on the rack.

Grill at low heat until side is brown.  Turn and cook other side until meat flakes.

Turn rolls on their sides and rotate to cook if you’d like the bacon more crisp.

Spicy Option:  Add a seeded sliced jalapeno to center of roll prior to grilling 

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Quick Pan Fried Striper      

Cleaned Fillets with “red” meat removed

Spices of your choice

2 to 4 T. butter

Sliced or chopped onion

Pimentos

Melt butter in non-stick skillet. Saute onion and remove from pan. Sprinkle spices on both side of fillets. (Our favorite spice is Durkee’s 6 Pepper Spice but we are having trouble finding it now that Sam’s doesn’t carry it any more.) 

Cook fillets on medium to high heat until brown and turn.  Add onions and pimentos over turned fillets and continue to cook until brown.  Meat will flake when done.  Length of cooking time is dependent upon the thickness of the fillets but it cooks very quickly.  I can have this on the table in a matter of minutes.  It is good with Raspberry Chipotle dipping sauce, also found at Sams. 

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Fried Striper

We have fried striper many different ways - here's a few ways we have prepared the fillets prior to frying:

- Rinse fillet and dip in Young's Fish Fry with added spices and salt (Note: most of the seasoning cooks out during frying so you will need to test your first cooked pieces to see if you have enough seasoning in the fish fry)

OR

- Dip fillet in prepared mustard prior to dipping in spiced cornmeal fish fry

OR

- Liberally sprinkler clean fillets with Emerild's Fish Rub and pan fry in a little olive oil.