Baked Stuffed Shad Recipes

BAKED STUFFED FISH

Steps:

• Pre-heat the oven to 400°F. In a skillet over medium-high heat, melt the butter. Cook the onion, shallot, garlic, celery, red pepper and parsley until softened, about 4-5 minutes.Reserve some of the cooked veggies for the bottom of the baking dish. Deglaze the pan with white wine and let cook for another minute. Add the bread, salt, freshly ground black pepper and thyme. Mix to combine thoroughly. Gently fold in the crab meat. Rinse and pat dry the sole fillets. Squeeze some fresh lemon juice on the filets. Spread the stuffing along the filet and roll it up.Place reserved cooked veggies in the bottom of a buttered baking dish. Place the rolled up sole filets, seam side down, on top of the veggies. Cook covered with foil for 15 minutes. Take the foil off and continue to cook for another five minutes uncovered. Serve with Rice Pilaf and Orange and Red Onion Salad.

SAUTEED SHAD FILLET WITH LEMON

Steps:

• In a shallow bowl, combine flour, salt, and pepper and dredge fish in seasoned flour. In a saute pan over medium heat, heat oil until hot. Add fish to pan and cook until well browned on both sides. Remove fish and blot on paper. Return saute pan to heat. Add butter, let melt, and cook until brown. Add lemon juice, allow to sizzle, and add chopped parsley. Plate fish and drizzle lemon butter over top. Serve with asparagus.;

INDOOR SHAD BAKE

Steps:

• You can use a plank of hardwood at least an inch thick, or a broiling pan large enough to accommodate both fillets. If you use a plank, put a pan or foil tray larger than the plank on the oven rack below it to catch the drippings.
• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. If you use a plank, spread it with vegetable oil and heat it in the oven for 5 minutes.
• Season the fillets with salt and pepper and arrange them, skin side down, in the broiling pan or on the hot plank. Lay the slices of bacon diagonally across the fish.
• Bake 15 minutes, then turn the heat down to 350 degrees and bake 10 minutes or so more, until the fish flakes easily with a fork. Discard the bacon and serve immediately with lemon wedges.

SHAD STUFFED WITH DATES

Steps:

• Mix together the chopped almonds, rice, sugar, cinnamon, and a pinch each of pepper and ginger, and knead with a little butter to hold everything together.
• Pit the dates and stuff them with the almond-rice mixture.
• Rub the fish all over with oil, salt, pepper, and a little ground ginger. Open up the 2 top fillets and arrange the stuffed dates down the center, then replace the top fillets. Place the fish on a large, well-oiled sheet of foil and sprinkle with the finely chopped onion. Wrap the fish up neatly and seal the edges of the foil firmly. (The foil allows you to omit sewing up the fish.) Lay the parcel on a large baking pan.
• Bake in a preheated 350°F oven, about 15 minutes per pound, or until the flesh begins to flake when you cut into the thickest part with a pointed knife. Then unwrap the foil and place the fish under the broiler to become crisply golden. Serve dusted with cinnamon if you like.

PLANKED STUFFED SHAD

Steps:

• For the plank, use a ceramic baking tile, bread board or pine plank 12 inches square. Soak for 1 hour in water; dry and rub with oil. Put in oven and heat oven to 400 degrees.
• Rinse the fish. Mix together the salt, pepper and nutmeg, sprinkle three-quarters of the mixture on the inside and outside of the fish and set the rest aside.
• Split leeks in half lengthwise and then widthwise; rinse completely. Put in a shallow pot, cover with cold water and cook over medium heat until tender, about 15 minutes. Drain leeks. Pour 1 tablespoon of the butter over leeks, add the juice of a quarter of the lemon and sprinkle with remaining salt mixture.
• Reduce the oven temperature to 375 degrees. Put the leeks inside the shad, sprinkle with bread crumbs and chopped parsley, close the fish, baste it with the remaining butter and juice of rest of the lemon. Place fish on plank and bake 40 minutes. Serve with boiled potatoes and lemon wedges.

SHAD STUFFED WITH SHAD ROE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 475 degrees.
• Arrange the shad fillets, skin-side-down, in a baking dish, preferably rectangular or square, in which the portions will fit snugly in one layer. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
• Bend the oil, wine and 2 tablespoons of chervil. Sprinkle this over the fish.
• Pull off and discard the connecting membranes of the roe. Cut the roe crosswise into 1/2-inch-thick slices.
• Heat the butter in a small skillet, and add the onion. Cook, stirring, until wilted but not browned. Add the pieces of roe, and cook, stirring briefly, just until the roe starts to lose its raw look.
• Put the bread cubes in a mixing bowl, and add the remaining 1/4 cup of chopped chervil. Add the roe mixture and the sieved eggs. Blend well. Divide the mixture into 6 equal portions.
• Lay out the 6 rectangles of parchment, and place 1 piece of fillet, skin-side-down, on each piece of paper. Spoon an equal portion of the oil and wine marinade over each. Open up the flaps (from which the bones were removed), and stuff each opening with equal portions of the roe mixture. Pack it loosely. Top each serving with a lemon slice. Fold the parchment neatly, envelope-fashion, sealing the edges. Arrange each filled envelope, sealed-side-down, on a baking sheet.
• Place in the oven, and bake 13 minutes. To serve, remove the fish from the envelopes and serve.