Tips for Cooking Fried Catfish

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Karl James owner of Creolesoul catering located in Round Rock, Texas and on behalf of Expert Village I'm here to show you a fried catfish recipe. So here we have it our finish fried catfish fillets. Like I said we use catfish fillets you can use the whole catfish if you want, you can fry it whole, or you can cut it into piece and for those of you that don't like bones or afraid of bones in the fish do the fillets. We cut them in half, we seasoned them with our seasoning mixture which had some of those creole spices in there, we also put together our cornmeal flour mixture we mixed that together and then we put the same seasonings into that and then we proceed to dredge the catfish into that mixture. Then we deep fried in about 350 degrees oh for 10-12 minutes and we did them 4 at a time. Once again you don't want to over load your fryer because when you do you bring the temperature down on it and then you find the items that are suppose to be fried are actually pretty much steaming in oil. So they get really oily, they don't have the crisp, the texture, they are really soft and these are crisp. Anyway here is your catfish fried catfish served with potato salad either creole or traditional, make some slaw anything, or just eat it with some bread catfish is good all the time. Anyway fried catfish. "