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What’s For Dinner: Fried Frosted Flakes Cod with Raspberry Tartar Sauce

This past summer, Drew and I spent a few days at Lake of the Ozarks. Here’s that review if you missed it: https://wp.me/p9gj7H-sJ
We ate out a LOT and at every single restaurant, there were “grouper fingers”. These were grouper fish coated in Frosted Flakes, deep fried, and drizzled with honey. With every version of these, they all came with a raspberry tartar sauce as well. This was absolutely my favorite thing I tried there, and I ordered it everywhere we went. I couldn’t get enough! So, I remade them at home (with cod instead of grouper because it is easier to find here) and want to share the recipe. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

*This recipe is for 2 servings. Double it or triple it if you’re feeding more than 2 people.

VIDEO RECIPE:

INGREDIENTS:

-2 cod filets (or grouper filets)
-2 cups Frosted Flakes
-1 cup flour
-1 egg
-1 tablespoon milk
-salt (about 1 teaspoon)
-1/4 cup tartar sauce
-1/4 cup raspberry preserves
-peanut oil for frying

DIRECTIONS:

1.  Make the sauce: Stir equal parts (about 1/4 cup each) of tartar sauce and raspberry preserves. Set in refrigerator until fish is ready to eat.
2. Salt both sides of the fish and set aside.
3. Put about a centimeter width of peanut oil in a frying pan and start to heat  on medium. You want this to be about 350 degrees when we begin to fry.
4. Crush the Frosted Flakes into small crumbs. I put in a baggie and use a    dough roller.
5. In one bowl, combine the Frosted Flakes with 1/4 cup flour and pinch of salt.
6. In another bowl, whisk the egg and milk and a pinch of salt.
7. In a final bowl, stir the remaining 3/4 cup flour and a pinch of salt.
8. Take a piece of fish, dredge it lightly in the flour. Then dip it in the egg wash,   then coat it heavily in the frosted flakes mix. Set aside until all fish have      been prepped.
9. Once the oil is hot enough, fry the fish for two minutes on each side, or until   browned.
10. Drizzle with honey and serve with the raspberry tartar sauce.

Fried Frosted Flakes Cod with Raspberry Tartar Sauce (Lake of the Ozarks’ “Fish Fingers”)

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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine American

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cod filets or grouper filets
  • 2 cups Frosted Flakes
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tbsp milk
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1/4 cup tartar sauce
  • 1/4 cup raspberry preserves
  • peanut oil for frying
  • honey for drizzling

Instructions
 

  • Make the sauce: Stir equal parts (about 1/4 cup each) of tartar sauce and raspberry preserves. Set in refrigerator until fish is ready to eat.
  • Salt both sides of the fish and set aside.
  • Put about a centimeter width of peanut oil in a frying pan and start to heat  on medium. You want this to be about 350 degrees when we begin to fry.
  • Crush the Frosted Flakes into small crumbs. I put in a baggie and use a dough roller.
  • In one bowl, combine the Frosted Flakes with 1/4 cup flour and pinch of salt.
  • In another bowl, whisk the egg and milk and a pinch of salt.
  • In a final bowl, stir the remaining 3/4 cup flour and a pinch of salt.
  • Take a piece of fish, dredge it lightly in the flour. Then dip it in the egg wash,   then coat it heavily in the frosted flakes mix. Set aside until all fish have been prepped.
  • Once the oil is hot enough, fry the fish for two minutes on each side, or until browned.
  • Drizzle with honey and serve with the raspberry tartar sauce.
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Want to try Blue Apron? Here’s my review

Blue Apron is a nationwide delivery service that ships you the recipes and all of the necessary ingredients for a meal. I have never been interested in this, personally, but lately I have seen some friends post beautiful food pics that they created via Blue Apron. Then, my father-in-law gave me a gift certificate to try them…so I did. Here’s the breakdown:

Price
2-person plan: $59.94 for three meals, shipped weekly.  (I had a $30 gift certificate, so I only paid $29.94 for this box.)
Family plan: $69.92 for TWO meals, shipped weekly.
*You can view the meal plans for each week and even change it if you
do not approve. However, there is only one other option per week.
You also cannot have preferences, such as no lactose, or no meat.
For example, here are the two menu options for next week:

Option 1:
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Option 2:
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*You may also skip a week, or as many as you like, in case you do not
like the meal options for that week or you have no need for it that
week.

What’s in the box?
Once I opened the very heavy box, I then had to open an insulating bag. This kept everything cold, and seemed to work well.  Inside this bag were individually-wrapped ingredients as well as three recipe cards.

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*1st Problem: There were three paper bags, each one full of the “knick knacks” (smaller ingredients) for each recipe. I got two of these bags for the cod sandwich, and none for the spiced beef skewers. So, I am without the panko breadcrumbs, ras el hanout, raisins, and labneh cheese. I have no idea what ras el hanout even is, so I can’t make this recipe with what I have on hand either.
So, I email their customer service and they wrote back within a couple hours saying they cannot send me the missing ingredients. However, they will take off $20 on my next box order. (Not helpful since I won’t be ordering from them again.)

The First Meal
Since I had twice as many “knick knacks” as I needed for the cod sandwich and endive salad, and it sounded the most delicious, I went for this recipe first.
The recipe card had the ingredients on one side and the instructions on the other, all with plenty of pictures for visual guidance.

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Here are all of the ingredients. Even the apple cider vinegar is measured and put into a bottle, ready to use. I was impressed with the packaging. Nothing was crushed or smooshed, and everything was very fresh.  The only ingredients the recipe called for that were not provided were 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil and salt and pepper.

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The recipe card was easy to follow, the pictures helped ensure I did everything correctly.  I had to chop a bulb of garlic, a shallot, endive, and capers.  Other than that, I had to sear the cod and just mix ingredients together. So, the recipe was pretty simple.
The only complaint is I had to make garlic paste out of a whole bulb of garlic, which was a lot of work. (I would much prefer this to already be prepared.)
While the recipe card explains nothing about how to do this, or any other process, the Blue Apron website has a video on how to complete this task.
Each week, the site has videos and longer written explanations for how to complete that week’s recipes. Pretty cool!

Here’s one plate (there were two total) of the finished product:

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The sandwich was delicious. The cod was perfectly flaky and the aioli was very flavorful, full of capers and shallots. The crunch of the baby kale was nice and the bread was perfectly soft.
The endive salad was inedible. Really. Both of us took one bite and threw out the rest. It was dressed with just vinegar, olive oil, some garlic paste and tons of shallot pieces. It was like eating raw onion…actually it was exactly that.
With all of the shallot in this meal, my breath was horrible all evening. Too much? Sorry, but it’s the truth. Was it worth it, though? No.

Overall
While I will not order from Blue Apron again, I believe it would be perfect for the person that hates figuring out what to cook and going to the grocery store. (I kind of love those things.)
The recipes are varied, so you would learn to cook a lot of unique dishes you may not have tried otherwise.
However, if you have many dietary restrictions, this would not be for you. I could not find anywhere to request just vegetarian dishes or gluten-free or lactose-free, etc.
I also think it is too expensive. If I paid full price, then each dish costs $10. If I paid this much, and still had to cook and clean, for that cod sandwich and endive salad, I would have been pretty mad.

If any of you have tried Blue Apron, let me know what you think in the comments.