How To Eat Gar Fish

Gar Balls

Ingredients: 3 pounds garfish meat

8 medium baking potatoes

2 onions

1 egg

1 cup mixed onion tops & parsley (chopped fine)

2 cups all-purpose flour

Cajun seasoning to taste

Skin and clean garfish. Scrap meat off the bone. Put onions and meat into a meat grinder. Mix with boiled mashed potatoes, onion tops and parsley, egg and season to taste. Roll into 2-inch balls. Dip balls into flour and deep fry (375 degrees Fahrenheit) until brown and floating.

This recipe is for the younger people with lost family recipe's. Most of us realize that bow fishing is gaining in popularity these days. One generation has gone by and almost forgotten some of the good eats when it comes to bow fishing.

The Importance of this recipe is do to the fact we tried Alligator Gar on the BBQ grill. We found out the hard chewing way that the Gar fish recipe is needed. There are to many tendons in the meat. Meat grinding really softens the meat like hamburger and makes it easier for consumption.

Use this recipe if you succeed in cleaning the gar fish. If you can get past the cleaning part. Tools you may find useful for the cleaning Alligator Gar fish; Bone knife, hack saw, hatchet, hammer and maybe - just maybe a fillet knife.

You think I'm kidding? The first one that we ever cleaned all we had was a spider knife and a crescent wrench to use as a hammer. Let's just say that there scales are like armor. Heck it is armor, no likes about it. The native Indians use to use there scales as arrow points cause they are that tough.