Enjoy your tasty seafood dinner with this fried catfish served with lemon wedges.
Classic Fried Catfish
- Prep Time 20 min
- Total 8 hr 20 min
- Ingredients 12
- Servings 6
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 lb catfish fillets, cut into 6 serving pieces
- 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
- 1/4 teaspoon red pepper sauce
- 1/3 cup yellow cornmeal
- 1/3 cup masa harina flour
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 teaspoon ground red pepper (cayenne)
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- Peanut oil for deep frying
- Lemon wedges
Instructions
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Step1Place catfish in single layer in 13x9-inch dish. In small bowl, mix buttermilk and pepper sauce with whisk; pour over fish. Cover; refrigerate 8 hours, turning once.
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Step2Remove fish from refrigerator; let stand at room temperature 10 minutes. Meanwhile, in shallow dish, mix cornmeal, both flours, salt, black pepper, red pepper and garlic powder. Remove fish from buttermilk mixture, allowing excess to drip off. Coat fish with cornmeal mixture, shaking off excess.
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Step3In deep fryer or heavy saucepan, heat 2 inches oil to 360°F. Line 15x10-inch pan with paper towel; place cooling rack in pan. Fry fish in batches 2 minutes on each side or until golden brown. Place on rack in pan. Keep warm in 225°F oven until serving time. Serve with lemon wedges.
Nutrition
402
Calories
24g
Total Fat
26g
Protein
20g
Total Carbohydrate
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 402
- Total Fat
- 24g
- 0%
- Saturated Fat
- 5g
- 0%
- Sodium
- 979mg
- 0%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 20g
- 0%
- Dietary Fiber
- 1g
- 0%
- Protein
- 26g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 0%
- 0%
Exchanges:
1 1/2 Starch; 3 Lean Meat; 3 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
1 1/2
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