Home fried catfish steaks (bone in). Great recipe for Home fried catfish steaks (bone in). I love and grew up eating catfish every Friday. Wash fish very well, dry and prep to season.
Great recipe for Home fried catfish steaks (bone in). I love and grew up eating catfish every Friday. Growing up in Chicago, we always had catfish steaks. You can have Home fried catfish steaks (bone in) using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Home fried catfish steaks (bone in)
- It's 1 cup of flour.
- It's 2 cups of yellow corn meal.
- Prepare of sazon seasoning packet (2).
- Prepare 2 of table spoon paprika.
- You need 2 tablespoon of black pepper.
- It's 2 tablespoon of salt.
- You need 1 tablespoon of cayenne pepper.
- You need 2 tablespoon of garlic powder.
- Prepare 1 tablespoon of onion powder.
- You need of vegetable oil.
- Prepare 1 of whole catfish chopped into steaks or 4 fillets.
- You need 1 tablespoon of lemon zest or lemon pepper.
These days, they're hard to find. I found a place in Atlanta that sells the whole fish and cuts it into steaks for you. Also try this recipe with Catfish Steaks or Fillets. Join me in my kitchen as I show you how to make my delicious Cajun style bone-in Catfish.
Home fried catfish steaks (bone in) step by step
- Wash fish very well, dry and prep to season.
- Mix all seasonings together except lemon pepper. Heavily and evenly sprinkle seasonging over fish steak too and bottom.
- Warm vegetable oil to about 355°. If you do not have a thermometer sprinkle a little cornmeal in the oil to do a test. Should not be popping but lightly bubble..
- Place on packet of sazon into cornmeal and flour mixture for seasoning..
- Place a couple steak into the breading and into the grease. Should not be popping but bubbly..
- Cool for about 12-16 min flipping two or three times so breading stays golden brown and doesn't brown..
- Allow drained grease on a paper towel and enjoy!.
- Don't forget the hot sauce and be careful catfish has lots of small bones..
Fried catfish is a Southern tradition, along with buttermilk hush puppies and buttermilk coleslaw. I personally hate fish of any kind but my boyfriend is a huge fried catfish fan. He said it was the best fried catfish he has ever had! Catfish is versatile and can be cooked in a number of ways, but for a traditional Southern recipe, it should be fried. Most of the farm-raised catfish in the United States comes from Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi.