Panko cod

While I was getting the fruit for the Wounded Dragon cocktail I also got a box of panko. Alton Brown's recipe for eggplant parmesan called for panko and I didn't know what it was. It said (Japanese bread crumbs) in parentheses so I thought about tearing up a bunch of bread slices. Good thing I didn't because panko looks nothing like bread crumbs.

Anyway, I want to use panko to make a chicken fried steak but the steak I was going to use is still frozen. Also it's beef. So I'm going to use a piece of cod (pun intended) instead.

A piece of cod.

First I'll add flour and an egg so the panko will stick.

I think normal people beat the egg in a separate bowl.

And now, the panko.

That was pretty quick. I now prefer to coat my frying pans with butter instead of oil so the food gets buttery instead of oily. (Alton Brown's book says that means I'm doing it wrong.)

I've got a bunch of green onions lying around so let's thow those in.

Hmm, the panko and egg solidifies into a single bread-skin.

Oops. I flipped it that time and the panko-skin peeled off.

Then I tried chopping into it with my spatula to see if the cod was cooked. I broke apart the panko-skin. At least I won't be eating raw cod (panko-sushi?).

Now this is just a mess. The panko isn't so much a coating as a separate side now.

Um, it's sorta done... I guess?

Meanwhile, I saw at the grocery store plantains could be used like potatoes. I'm going to test that theory out with baked plantains!

I'll just wrap it in aluminum foil and stick it i the oven like a baked potato. At least, I THINK that's how baked potatoes go. I don't think I've ever made a baked potato that wasn't cold coming out of the oven.

I'll give it 12 minutes as a wild guess. I don't know how long potatoes are supposed to bake, much less plantains. Or what temperature for that matter... I just picked 350 F because it sounded good.

Hmm, they just look like baked bananas inside.

So here's the finished panko cod!

It's definitely an interesting flavor, especially the bananas mixed with the fish. I like it, even though the panko part turned out a failure. I'm not even sure where the cod or egg taste ended and the panko taste began. Bananas, fish, and onions though, I'll make this wehen I have company!