How do you like to do standard, corn meal breaded, fried catfish? Straight corn meal, or with a little flour? What do you like to dip the meat in before breading it? Milk? Buttermilk? Egg whites? Snake spit? Do you do one layer of breading, or two? If you do two, do you dip again between layers? After breading, you let it sit in the fridge 30 minutes (helps the breading stay on, or so they say)? Come on, experts, let's hear it.

Mix about 1/2 can of beer with a tablespoon of yellow mustard.

Dip fish in beer/mustard.

Coat with cornmeal, or seasoned fish fry mix you buy at the store.

Fry in 375 deg. peanut oil until it floats.

Eat

Beer and mustard? That's a new one.

I mix cornmeal and flour (about 3/1 ratio) to I get the consistency I prefer. I used mustard to soak all my fish for over 10 years, but I have not used it the past 2-3 times. I think I like it without mustard better. The moisture from the mustard will actually steam and cause the batter to separate from the fish sometimes. I season my corn meal/ flour with about 5-6 different spices to I get the flavor I like. If you want a premixed seasoning, Academy has a very good product by Louisana that is already seasoned. It`s really good.



https://www.academy.com/p/louisiana-fish-fry-products-1-gallon-seasoned-fish-fry

Oh .... I forgot to ell you to drink the other 1/2 of the beer.

Straight yellow corn meal with salt. black and red pepper. I like it to be slightly moist, not wet, just enough for the meal to stick. No mustard/hot sauce/beer/etc needed.

I used straight stone ground corn meal with a little salt for flavoring. I dip the fish in milk, then the cornbread. That's it. I think some of the best fried catfish is made using the KISS approach.....

I soak in buttermilk the coat in Louisiana fish fry..

Good thread!

I use the 3-2-1 method. 3 cups of yellow corn meal, 2 cups of white corn meal and 1 cup of flour. Salt the fillets before mixing them with the mixture.

i got turned onto this over 20 years ago... from perch to catfish to frog legs I've not found anything better, that includes many a "Grandma's Secrete Recipy"...LOL, for real it's no joke, get the original rec.

https://shorelunch.com/recipes/original-recipe-fish-breading-batter/