Planked Stuffed Shad Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Wipe shad fillets with damp paper towel. Season both fillets with salt and pepper and wine. Lay one fillet on a large piece of foil and spoon stuffing onto fillet. Top with second shad fillet, dot with butter and wrap up in foil. Place whole package onto a baking sheet and bake about 30 minutes until fish flakes easily. Serve immediately.

Steps:

• Clean and dress fish.
• Broil for ten minutes; place on a hot, buttered plank, skin side down.
• Season well, pour melted butter over the top and bake at 400F for 15 minutes.
• Protect plank from scorching by coating with damp salt, excluding the parts not covered by the fish. (The salt dries and is easily removed before mashed potato is added.).
• Remove plank from oven and pipe mashed potatoes decoratively around fish.
• Return to oven until potatos are golden and fish well done.
• Garnish with parsley and lemon slices.

Steps:

• Prepare a small bonfire with scraps of any softwood like pine. Ready a plank of hardwood, preferably oak, that is at least an inch thick and about 2 feet long by 2 1/2 feet wide.
• Season the fillets with salt and pepper. Arrange them, skin side down, on the plank. Lay two strips of bacon or salt pork across each fillet. Using large-headed nails, nail through the bacon into the fillets so that they are fastened securely to the plank.
• Prop the plank upright about 6 inches from the fire, with the fillets vertical. Bake 15 minutes; turn the plank so the end previously on the ground is now on top. Bake 15 minutes or so more, until the fish flakes easily with a fork. Remove the nails and bacon, and serve fish immediately with lemon wedges.

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.