Catfish With Cornmeal Breading
Ready In: 45 mins
Serves: 6
Ingredients
- 1 cup flour
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1⁄4 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup yellow cornmeal
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons celery salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon paprika
- 1⁄4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1⁄4 teaspoon dry mustard
- 3 lbs catfish fillets
- oil (for frying)
- lemon wedge
- tartar sauce
Directions
- Put flour in shallow dish.
- Combine eggs, milk, and salt in another bowl.
- Combine cornmeal, celery salt, paprika, pepper and mustard in shallow dish.
- Lightly coat fish in flour.
- Dip in milk/egg wash.
- Coat with corn meal.
- Put fish on paper towels on a baking sheet.
- Refrigerate 3 hours.
- Heat oil to 375 in a deep heavy pan.
- Heat oven to 300.
- Carefully add fish in batches to hot oil.
- Lower heat to medium high.
- Turn fish, cook until coating is golden brown and fish is opaque.
- Remove fish, drain on paper towels.
- Keep warm in oven.
- Serve with lemon wedges and tartar sauce.
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