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Crispy Potato Nugget Hoisin Halibut
Recipe courtesy Guy Fieri
Show: Guys Big Bite   Episode: Tater Tot Halibut
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Yuck
08/27/2007 at 01:59pm
User: Anonymous    User Rating:
Start cooking real food instead of covering everything with tatertots. What a joke.




The best way to have fish
08/26/2007 at 04:15pm
User: Jesus from Chula Vista, CA    User Rating:
this is the best way to have fish how delicious!!! soo creative what presentation!!and no smell. aaahhh the flavor soo good! Great for parties. i love it.!!




customize
08/07/2007 at 01:48pm
User: Anonymous    User Rating:
The idea in using a recipe is to make it the way presented, if you are a novice cook (regretfully there are typos in some recipes). Ingredients and kitchen equipment will vary from kitchen to kitchen. The more experienced cook will already know this and make accommodations for this, while the less experienced cook will learn from this. This recipe needs to be adjusted for personal taste, but try it with chicken and organic tater tots. Great! I eliminate the salt and use organic tamari sauce. I rate the basic idea as a winner.




Great Halibut Dish
07/01/2007 at 08:35pm
User: Anonymous    User Rating:
This is a great halibut recipe. The marinde works well with this fish. The preparation time is very easy and the flavor is very exotic. Loved it!!!!!!




Guy doesn't bite
06/06/2007 at 02:54am
User: Frank from Redmond, WA    User Rating:
Guy rocks, he's human, fun and knows how to make the taste buds sing. This recipe is awesome and i don't like fish (but my wife does)... We need to see more episodes, we're already on to repeats...




Disgusting
05/23/2007 at 11:05am
User: Ralph from Houston, TX    User Rating:
What a waste of a good piece of halibut. Tater tots do not work well with this dish.




gummy
05/22/2007 at 02:49pm
User: debra from douglasville, GA    User Rating:
I had wanted to try this since I first saw it on the show. We ate it, but all agree that is is too gummy in texture. Family asked that I not do this one again.




Adjustment
05/20/2007 at 05:11pm
User: Anonymous    User Rating:
Just saw the show this am. Guy cooked the fish in the oven at 200-250 for 20 minutes. The 2 minutes is a typo. Haven't tried it yet but wondered what folks thought.




Not Very Good
05/20/2007 at 01:37pm
User: Anonymous    User Rating:
Well...it sounded good...but overall this is waaay too salty, even after using low sodium soy sauce. Maybe reducing the marinating time would help others. I'm not trying this again.




Good, But Guy's Done Better
03/31/2007 at 06:31pm
User: Stephanie from Austin, TX    User Rating:
First, I have to agree with the reviewer that said that the flavors overwhelmed the halibut. Second, there was a reviewer that cut the topping ingredients in half, and I think that would improve it overall. I usually love how Guy layers flavors, marinade, rub, sauce, all in the same dish. But, for this dish, I'm not sure it was even necessary to marinate the fish, since the topping flavors were so overwhelming. I liked the combination of Asian flavors, but my husband thought it was "sweeter" than he expected. Cooking (and turning) is kind of difficult with the coating piled up so high. That made my coating get a little "over-carmelized" (or burnt?) on the outside while the topping underneath stayed a little mushy for my taste. (The burnt bits from the skillet weren't so bad, though)




This Recipe Rocks
03/21/2008 at 11:29pm
User: kellie from lexington, KY    User Rating:
We saw this show and recorded it. My girlfriend made it that night. We had to use salmon because you can't find good halibut in Kentucky or at least I can't....but the salmon is nice go figure. It was excellent. i am a tater tot freak so to incorporate my love of them with my love of fish is awesome. we use this recipe often for company...but my girlfriend has to cook it because she does it better then I do. Oh man and do I love the green beans nice and crisp and so full of flavor. My tummy says "THANKS FOR THE FLAVOR."




Great stuff!
03/18/2007 at 12:30pm
User: MAYA from Newport Coast, CA    User Rating:
Our kids never eat fish: they loved this, and so did we. I changed several things in the recipe, including halving the ingredients for the potato mixture, and finishing it in a 400 degree oven for fifteen minutes - I have to think the "2 minute" instruction was a typo. Next time I would use another fish. Halibut is too delicate and expensive and is overwhelmed by this coating. Otherwise, yum!




Really Good!
03/06/2007 at 09:58pm
User: Anonymous    User Rating:
This was a fun recipe to make and the combination of flavors were great. It would have been easier to make if the recipe followed Guy's instruction on the show, such as finishing the fish in the oven, not just keeping it warm. Also, the portions are huge! So if you have less than a Big Bite appetite, just cut back on the ingredients a bit.




Salty ending
03/06/2007 at 07:22pm
User: Jillian from Philadelphia, PA    User Rating:
The recipe sounded great to my husband and me when we watched the episode but it tasted nothing like we anticipated. I followed the recipe to the T but the topping was too salty. The fish also took longer than the 2 minutes. The recipe was a good try on unique ingredients but I will not try again and would not recommend.




Really disgusting
03/05/2007 at 12:17pm
User: Anonymous    User Rating:
Guy is a total joke, and 'recipes' like this are total proof. FN seems to be more interested in insulting the intelligence of it's viewers with shows like this, rather than offering quality programming.




Great combination!
03/04/2007 at 11:19pm
User: Michele from Albuquerque, NM    User Rating:
I love asian food, and I have children, so anything with tater tots I want to try. This is tastes great and is easy. I did the frying part as written (two at a time, taking them out and putting on an oven safe pan.) rather than the way he did it on TV (doing all 4 at once and putting the frying pan into the oven). Two at a time is easier to manage, especially when you have to flip the tater-tot coated fish. My husband ate the bits that fell off during frying and he loved them. My kids liked it, too. We'll definitely do this again.