Pompano Buster
- 1 1/4 pounds Pompano, cleaned
- All purpose flour (for dusting)
- 1 egg
- Clarified butter
- 6 ounces jumbo shrimp
- 6 ounces mushrooms
- 1 lemon
- 1/4 cup dry sherry
- 1 level teaspoon fresh chives
- 2 teaspoons salted butter
- 2 teaspoons all purpose flour
- Rinse fish and pat dry.
- Baste the grill rack with clarified butter.
- Break the eggs onto a platter and mix with the clarified butter to form an egg wash for the fish.
- Preheat the broiler.
- Dust the fish with flour.
- Brush with egg wash on both sides.
- Place under broiler and broil for 5 minutes.
- Remove from the oven turn the fish over and brush and brush with egg wash. Return to the broiler and broil until golden brown.
- Remove the shell and then the sand track from the shrimp and cut them in half lengthwise.
- Wash the mushrooms, dry and cut into 1/2-inch slices.
- Saute shrimp and mushrooms a few minutes in a hot pan coated with a little clarified butter.
- Squeeze about 2 teaspoons of lemon juice over the mixture and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- Add 2 ounces Sherry and ignite.
- Wash, dry and chop the chives.
- Add to shrimp-mushroom mixture.
- Blend the 2 teaspoons of salted butter with the 2 tablespoons of flour to form a "Beurre Manie."
- Add butter-flour mixture to the pan and stir until well combined.
- Heat a serving platter.
- Slide fish onto platter, cut in half from the head to the tail and pour shrimp-mushroom sauce over fish.
pompano, flour, egg, butter, jumbo shrimp, mushrooms, lemon, sherry, fresh chives, butter, flour
Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/pompano-buster-recipe.html (may not work)