One of the best parts of catching crappie is the spelling of the name. After our catch on Saturday, I had a a couple crappie dishes to share with you (Crappie Miso soup, anyone?). These were dinner on Sunday night.
After filleting them, I spritzed them with some lime, dredged them in flour mixed with some cumin, paprika, and chili powder, and fried them in a hot cast iron pan. They were served with some salsa and fresh cilantro and scallions on warm tortillas. Pretty damn tasty, pretty damn fast.
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Calico Bass must have done something to earn the name crappie…could it be a southern thing? How’d it become so universal I wonder. btw, those tacos look delicious
Y’know, I was reading about crappie the other day (love Wikipedia), and it comes from the French word “crapet” for any fish in the sunfish family. I’ve only heard them called crappie- calico bass is new to me. And they were really good tacos.
Cool. On one of our early fishing dates, Barbra and I fished a cove in a large California lake, caught a few nice crappie, and had tacos that night for dinner!
Crappie are some of the favorite fish to catch, and we had a bunch of em’ after last Saturday. They’re good eating.
Those look awesome!! Crappie and salmon are my favorite fish hands down. Currently, I have a freezer full of rainbow trout…. Now I’m thinking fish tacos with homemade green chile salsa!!! I wonder how that will work with the trout?
As long as they’re filleted, it should work fine!