Potato Crusted Salmon

[ogew]

I followed this recipe - all the potatoes promptly fell off when added to the frying pan... and mostly wouldn't stick before that, help?

http://www.howsweeteats.com/2010/01/15/potato-crusted-salmon/

Comments

[oxygen__]

Maybe try a different method?

It uses potato slices instead of grated potatoes.

[ogew]

This looks like something I want to try.
Have you tried this?

[oxygen__]

Unfortunately, I haven't. I don't have the knife skills nor a mandolin to make the potato slices thin enough to work.

[ogew]

My mom got me a mandolin for Christmas, and my wife got me super sharp knives which makes it much easier to pull of this kind of thing so I'm set on that front.

Thank you.

[waterotter]

Typically, wet sticks to dry and dry sticks to wet, but dry doesn't stick to dry and wet doesn't stick to wet.

Potatoes are hard to use as a coating for anything, since they're kind of dry and kind of wet, so they don't like to stick to anything.

I would try squeezing the moisture out of the potatoes as much as possible before using them. Make sure to pat the salmon as dry as possible before dipping it into the egg wash.

By the looks of that recipe, the idea isn't so much to coat the fish in the potato, as to make a potato patty with some fish inside it. That is, use a lot more potato than you think you need, and pack it in tight.

Once you get them into the pan, don't touch them any more than you have to. Give it time to cook and set before poking it.

[ogew]

Would dipping the fish in flour before dredging in egg, and draining the potatoes over paper towel help?

[waterotter]

I think I'd try corn starch instead of flour. It's certainly worth a try!

[ogew]

Will do - than you.
Just out of curiosity, why corn starch?