Escovitch fish sticks

original post: http://greedygirlcooks.blogspot.com/2016/05/escovitch-fish-sticks.html

Greedy Tips: You can use snapper, whiting, trout, tilapia any type of mild flavored white fish.

Ingredients

4-6 Fish fillets cut into strips

½ teaspoon Salt

¼ teaspoon Black pepper

1 teaspoon Onion powder

1 drizzle of oil

½ cup Cornmeal

1 cup flour

1 tablespoon onion powder

Enough oil for deep frying the fish

For the pickle (You may have left overs)

1 onion thinly sliced

1 carrot thinly sliced

1 tablespoon allspice berries

1 scotch bonnet pepper thinly sliced

1 cup Vinegar

3/4 teaspoon Salt

1 teaspoon Sugar

Instruction

• Preheat the oil to 375 degrees
• In a bowl combine all the pickle ingredients and allow it to soak, set aside
• Season fish fillets with salt black pepper onion powder and a drizzle of oil
• Place the flour, cornmeal and onion powder in a bag
• Drop the pieces of fish in the bag and shake to coat all the pieces of fish
• Fry the fish in the hot oil until the skin is golden brown. They should not take longer than 4 to 5 minutes to cook in the hot oil
• Place on a cooling rack to drain until all the fish sticks have been fried.
• Place in a dish and spoon the pickle on top of the fish along with some of the pickle juice.
• serve