Fried Bluegill Eggs

Introduce

Chef :

renee

Fried Bluegill Eggs

A very tasty delicacy ¡! I served mine with some warm bankok peanut sauce.

Ingredient

any amount of eggs or roe from bluegill, whole with sack intact

parmesan cheese, enough to coat your eggs

flour, enough to coat your eggs

Vegetable oil, enough to cover half the eggs in skillet

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Bluegills, a small panfish found in freshwater lakes and streams and some rivers, are a popular game fish among anglers due to their feisty nature and excellent taste. During the spawning season, usually in late May through August, bluegill females produce eggs. The best chance for catching a bluegill with eggs is during the peak of the spawning season when water temperatures are between 67 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit.

* Step 2

bluegill eggs are considered a delicacy in some areas. popular with poor folk. it is also known as poor mans caviar..

* Step 3

directions: carefully remove eggs sacks from the bluegills belly.. be sure to not break the sacks that enclose the eggs.

* Step 4

heat oil in a skillet.

* Step 5

rinse eggs sacks in cold water very gently by filling a dish with water and with fingertips swish the egg sacks around to rinse them.

* Step 6

remove from water and in palm coat with parmesan cheese, and sprinkle with salt and pepper.

* Step 7

carefully in a bowl with flour roll the egg sacks in the flour.

* Step 8

coat completely

* Step 9

gently place eggs into hot grease and fry for only about a minute on each side.

* Step 10

you will get some eggs that expand and explode in hot grease. please be careful.

* Step 11

serve alongside and fish dish or with your morning breakfast.

* Step 12

hint... also can be done with catfish roe/eggs, waleye, and crappy.. ive never tried any other fish as of yet. walleye bring the best tasting and catfish being the most fishy tasting.