Snakehead

I hope this is not just a fish lover hobbyist site but also fish eatery...I got a whole frozen snakehead...I wish it was live but then the Feds wouldve been knockin on my door.

I love to eat fish...but I could never eat my pets and this is not my pet

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My GF chopped it up so I'll let you guys know how it taste.

thats very gross looking, not even my kind of food anyways. gross

LOL.... Did you eat that...orr???? What was it for? Thats a big snake head.

How did it taste? Never ate one before....
Those are some of the meanest nastiest fish!
If you still have the head can you take a pic of those chompers?

We are makin it today...but yeah arrgggg I forgot to take pic of chompers
I will take pic of the finished product and possibly me eating it lol

I had a snakehead years ago. He ate everything in sight! What a beautiful fish! Only problem I had with mine was he kept escaping. One day I didn't find him quick enough and he died.

You've got me quite curious... how did it taste? How did you cook it?
I can tell you Mayan cichlids are fantastic with garlic and butter very close to tilapia in taste

lol yeah thats a curious fish to eat, but i eat pretty much anything so why not trying one

When I was a kid we used to empty tiny ponds or pocket of water in rice fields after a typhoon. We catch them with our barehands along with other fish like catfish, Gourami etc. Slippery but that's what's fun about it.

Snakeheads are good eating, we usually gut them out, leave the scales on it put salt and pepper inside and out and throw em in the grill. Let the burnt scale flake out and scrape them off and you got some tender, tasty barbequed fish meat....Yum! I miss my childhood lol

I'll have to try that someday!

Fern wrote:

I'll have to try that someday!

What?! catching fish with barehands or grilling them with scales on?

I've caught fish with my bare hands before, I was referring to your recipe

We prepared it and wrapped pieces in foil and steam for 1 hour.

The taste is like any other wild caught animal...they have that wild predatory taste to it. The texture is that you cannot just peel the meat right off the bone especially right by the spinal. The meat is very fiberous and the muscle strands/meat are almost wrapped along the vertabrae. Making this fish very powerful. Not much gut or insides and so you get a lot of muscle/meat. My parents ate the heck out of it. Thanks to my girlfriend, Caroline for preparing it...



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So close-ish to shark?
That looks reallllly good!!!!

A fish with the type of texture you are talking about would be good in a Sauce picante.

LimeJuice, Soy Sauce with Red Hot Chilli Peppers is the best dip for that fish

Wait a minute. Are we talking about a large snakeshead (reptile) or we talking about a snakehead (fish) I am lost on this thread as to what everyone is talking about

CajunGator wrote:

Wait a minute. Are we talking about a large snakeshead (reptile) or we talking about a snakehead (fish) I am lost on this thread as to what everyone is talking about

We are talking about the fish

khrister wrote:

LimeJuice, Soy Sauce with Red Hot Chilli Peppers is the best dip for that fish

Take off the chilli peppers and it will be better lol

Only for the brave!

Where is the nuoc mam?

Sorry I am not Vietnamese, I am Hmong...and I know a lot of people don't know what Hmong is...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hmong_people

Our people have fought secretly for the CIA and were finally recognized a few years back.

Hmong have also turned the tide in defeating the Mongols alongside the Chinese. So not to affiliate Mongolians with Hmong. Hmong were Chinese at one point but did not want to conform to their governing

Also see Gran Torino

that looks good

Sorry for assuming (the label on the package was in Viet). That link was a good read!

I would eat that dinner plate in a heartbeat!

I need to see if I can find some here, I'm always up for trying something new!