The Lake Erie Monster

This is cook Matt Fish's homage to the food fries helium went to connected Friday nights with his grandparents portion increasing up successful Cleveland. Although combining food and food mostly is considered a no-no successful culinary circles, the Lake Erie Monster is similar an elevated Filet-O-Fish, sandwiching crispy beer-battered food with gooey food and a spicy jalapeño-spiked tartar sauce.

The condiment look calls for seeding the jalapeños, but you tin amp up the spirit by adding immoderate seeds backmost into the condiment for an further deed of heat.

Although the cook likes to marque the sandwich with section Great Lakes seafood specified arsenic walleye oregon perch, erstwhile available, helium typically makes it with cod astatine his Cleveland country restaurants; different options could see tilapia oregon snapper.

You’ll request an instant-read thermometer for monitoring the fish-frying oil.

The jalapeño tartar condiment tin beryllium refrigerated successful an airtight instrumentality for up to 2 weeks.

From Matt Fish, chef-owner of Melt Bar & Grilled successful Cleveland.

Ingredients

From Matt Fish, chef-owner of Melt Bar & Grilled successful Cleveland.

Tested by Kristen Hartke.