Pan Fried Capelin

Name: Pan Fried Capelin
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 2 min
Total time: 17 min
Yield: 12 each
Cuisine: Newfoundland
Ingredients: 12 Capelin; 1/2 Cup Fat Pork; Sea Salt; Pepper; Olive Oil; 1/2 Cup Flour

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By Bonita Hussey

July 23, 2017

5.01 rating

Prep: 15 min
Cook: 2 min
Makes: 12 each
Serves: Family

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Delicious plate of Pan Fried Caplin with boiled potatoes and fat pork scrunchions

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Delicious plate of Pan Fried Capelin with boiled potatoes and fat pork scrunchions, plus fresh homemade bread with butter.

There is so many ways you can cook or eat Capelin, pan fried in scrunchions or smoked, pickled and dried. If you have eaten Capelin before you will enjoy them anyway you have them. This video is for pan fried Capelin and served with homemade bread and boiled potatoes.

**This is a plate of fresh Caplin ready for cleaning and pan frying.**

This time in the season between June and July Capelin starts to roll in on the beaches across Newfoundland and Labrador to spawn and people go out to try and catch them with nets and buckets. Capelin is use not only for people to eat, they are eaten attracted by other predators including fish, whales, seabirds. People use the Capelin in their gardens over vegetable’s for national fertilizer. We also use Capelin season as a sport to go out to the beaches and watch the Capelin roll and sometimes if you are really lucky there may be a cod or two roll in with them. ?

**This is a plate of smoked Capelin ready to eat.**

These smoked Capelin are usually warmed over a campfire or BBQ for people to enjoy as a snack” they are so good. Mmmmm

**Fresh Caplin cleaned and ready to pan fry in a cast iron pan with fat pork, butter and oil.**

I can remember when I was a child my dad and mom would take us Capelin watching and we would be having so much fun on the beach. Most Newfoundland beaches are small round rocks not sand, my dad had a big cast net that would fly out into the water and he would pull it tight then drag it in full of Capelin. We would have five gallon white buckets there on the beach waiting for dad to open up the net and the Capelin would go in the buckets and over the beach. I can hear all of us girls screaming watching the Capelin just flip and flop everywhere.

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12 CapelinEach
1/2 Cup Fat Porksmall cubes
Sea SaltAs needed
PepperAs needed
Olive OilAs needed
1/2 Cup Flour

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You will need a cast iron pan or non stick pan.
Clean and gut one dozen Capelin or as many as you like.
Then in a bowl add flour, sea salt, pepper and mix together.
Then roll Capelin in the flour mixture and place on a plate.

Start the heat on your pan and add the fat pork, butter and oil of choice, until the fat pork starts to cook.
Then add a few Caplin fry until golden brown on each side, this will only take a few minutes.
Then remove from heat and drizzle with lemon and serve with boiled potatoes and fresh bread, or side dish of choice.

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Michele Root

July 2020

How long can I keep capelin in the fridge before cleaning them. I got some yesterday. Grilled some, put some in the freezer but I had too many to deal with all at once. I put some in the fridge in a bag of cold water that I added 3 tbsp of salt to. I thought I would get them all cleaned and frozen today….. but I’m tired now and want to continue tomorrow. Will they still be fine to clean and put on the freezer tomorrow?

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1. Bonita
  
  July 2020
  
  Hi Michele: Thank you for your message, capelin is only good in the fridge uncleaned for 24 hours or so, if you don’t clean them they will go bad and then they are no good to eat. After you clean the remands out of them wash them good in cold water and only keep them in a freezer bag and freeze them. Unless you where going to smoke or salt them. I hope this helps and I know how hard it is to clean them and timely, all the best and sorry I just seen your message. Bonita
  
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Rose

July 2019

Can you freeze fresh capelin after cleaning and drying off excess moisture. I vacuumed sealed bags. How long can you keep them in the freezer

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1. Bonita
  
  July 2019
  
  Hi Rose: Yes you can my mom freezes hers for the winter and loves them every time she fry them up. Thank you for your message and sorry I’m just getting to your message, trying to catch up on all of my messages from yesterday. Have a lovely day….Bonita
  
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Kathy Yates

August 2018

I would like to see your recipe for pickling salt beef and pork ribs. I have tried several of your recipes and have had great results.

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1. Bonita
  
  August 2018
  
  Hi Kathy: Thank you for your message and I’m glad you are enjoying my channel and website. I will share with you the link to my youtube video, but its also on this website. https://youtu.be/VGUwVR5gZeI enjoy. Bonita
  
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Lamb

July 2018

Do you have a pickling guideline for Caplin?

Thank you in advance.

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1. Bonita
  
  July 2018
  
  Hi and thank: Thank you for your message and for visiting my channel, I don’t have a recipe or video for pickling caplin because of the work and time it takes to do it,but I have a recipe for pickling salt beef and pork ribs. Pickling fish would be a little different, you can use the same method as the pickled salt beef but only leave the caplin in the bucket for a few days, less then a week and then you have to put them outside to dry. “Thats the hard part”, some people use a homemade grate so the air can flow through, some hangs them on a line with cloth pins.You would have the grate off the ground about to your hips resting on two chairs. Line the grate with caplin in the sun and only leave them out in the day time and put them in a cardboard box in the night to keep dry, then keep them in a cool place at night so they don’t spoil. You keep doing this everyday until your caplin is dry then keep refrigerated or frozen. I know this is a long message and a lot of work but if this is something you would like to have it may be worth it for you. Good luck with this and enjoy if you make them. 🙂 I hope this helps. Bonita
  
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