Grilled fish collar. You can use the collar from any large fish here. Some good candidates include: striped bass, salmon, lake trout, redfish, tautog, yellowtail, white seabass, really big Pacific rockfish or largemouth bass, lingcod, snapper or grouper, and sablefish, also known as black cod. The fattier the fish, the shorter the marinade.
Once you pull your fish off of the grill, you will most likely have some of the most tender fish you have ever eaten.
This stuff is just plain delicious.
So the next time you get home and see the collars in your fish cleaning bag, don't throw them out.
You can have Grilled fish collar using 4 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.
This dry rubbed grilled grouper collar (AKA fish collars or necks) recipe is visually stunning and also delicious. A little about fish collars: we have a CSF (community supported fishery) from Abundant Seafood in Charleston, SC. Fish collars are really popular in Japanese cooking, like hamachi kama, which is yellowtail collar. That's how I serve it too, broiled Japanese-style, but with local fish.
I've been able to source pollack collars for a long time, which is just a really succulent unused piece of fish. You want them fully cooked and a little charred. Serve with steamed rice and a salad. GW Fins' executive chef Michael Nelson demonstrates how to remove a fish collar from a red snapper. Nelson serves the collars tempura fried with an Asian glaze at the New Orleans French Quarter.