Crispy Fried Catfish

[N4sir]

Late yesterday afternoon after it cooled down to a nice 93 degrees in the shade I did a little frying outside in the little T-Fal fryer. I had cut some catfish fillets into nuggets and set in the fridge in a yellow mustard bath and when ready to cook I battered them just before frying the French fries. I also whipped up a little homemade cole slaw dressing for cole slaw.

Fries done

Some of the fish

Time to make a plate. There used to be someone who hated my stainless condiment cups so for them I decided to use one for some ketchup. Lol.....

Fish was REALLY delicious!

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[US Infidel]

Looks good. I'll have to try the mustard thing. I've heard of that before.

 

[N4sir]

Try it! I usually mix yellow mustard with beer and it's a bit thinner but with just the yellow mustard it's more viscous and holds the dry breading/batter better which in turn made for the crispiness of it this time. You don't really taste the yellow mustard though.

 

[Brawny]

You lost me there. Catfish is disgusting, and I'm from MS.

White perch is where it's at.

 

[Barry J]

Last couple of times I fired catfish, I used condensed milk and egg to soak the fish. Worked great. Came out crispy. Never did care for the mustard thing. Sure does look good. My hoop net did good this spring. Between me and my brother in law, we caught 70 or 80 pounds of fillets.

 

[JeeperCreeper]

You lost me there. Catfish is disgusting, and I'm from MS.

White perch is where it's at.

Here ya go... Fried Sac-a-lait fillets, tails & eggs! I'm all about my sacs, but I don't discriminate, they all taste good, and even more fun to put in the boat!

 

[wcweir3]

Nice mess of fish there JeeperCreeper where do you usually go?

 

[JeeperCreeper]

Nice mess of fish there JeeperCreeper where do you usually go?

All the action happens in the glory hole!... I got a couple private ponds at my disposal.

 

[wcweir3]

Lucky you

 

[US Infidel]

Here ya go... Fried Sac-a-lait fillets, tails & eggs! I'm all about my sacs, but I don't discriminate, they all taste good, and even more fun to put in the boat!

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I never heard of frying tails and eggs.. I'll try the tails but the eggs?????

 

[wcweir3]

Fish eggs are GOOD

 

[JeeperCreeper]

I never heard of frying tails and eggs.. I'll try the tails but the eggs?????

The tails are crispy like potato chips. The eggs are like fish & fried eggs together (My favorite now... the things you learn when you have an Asian wife). Gotta give it a shot!

 

[sys48kc]

I've always marinated my catfish in equal parts mustard and hotsauce of your choice. Wonderful

 

[John_]

Sac a lait and specs are the best tasting fish to me.....sac a lait flesh is like so pure and clean. No worms like specs.

 

[Brawny]

Here ya go... Fried Sac-a-lait fillets, tails & eggs! I'm all about my sacs, but I don't discriminate, they all taste good, and even more fun to put in the boat!

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Love me some fins, never ate eggs though.

 

[340six]

I only had raw fish eggs.

 

[US Infidel]

I'm very interested in this.... So the eggs stay together when you batter and fry them? Only sac a lait eggs or all fish eggs?
(I cleaned all my fish from this weekend yesterday. Wish I would have heard of this sooner.)

 

[JeeperCreeper]

The eggs are in a little sack, that you should be able to pull out intact... I've done bass and sac-a-lait, bream are too small and not really worth dealing with. I've heard gar eggs are posioness. I'm pretty sure we've done catfish, my wife and daughter says we have.

I don't go salt water fishing much, so I can't help there.

P.S. Sorry I hijacked...

 

[US Infidel]

The eggs are in a little sack, that you should be able to pull out intact... I've done bass and sac-a-lait, bream are too small and not really worth dealing with. I've heard gar eggs are posioness. I'm pretty sure we've done catfish, my wife and daughter says we have.

I don't go salt water fishing much, so I can't help there.

P.S. Sorry I hijacked...

Thank you for the info, I will try it. Yes gar eggs will get you sick. Next weekend is mustard fried fish, tails and fried fish eggs (hopefully get a bunch of females!!)

+1 on the thread hijacking.

 

[JeeperCreeper]

Good luck! Recommend using a deep fryer and Louisiana brand fish fry (blue bag).

Let me know how it turns out.