I love fried fish but with two little kids at home I don't always have time to go fishing. What are your favorite types of commercially available fish to fry? My wife isn't a big fan of catfish so that takes a big chunk of the frying style fish off the market for us. TIA advance for your tips.
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Cod, tilapia, and sea trout are good but catfish is the obvious answer, sorry for your loss.easttexasaggie04 said:
I love fried fish but with two little kids at home I don't always have time to go fishing. What are your favorite types of commercially available fish to fry? My wife isn't a big fan of catfish so that takes a big chunk of the frying style fish off the market for us. TIA advance for your tips.
Flounder.
Fresh caught crappie bar none. The best fried fish but you have to catch several.
Crappie
FIFY76Ag said:
Fresh caught crappie bar none. The best fried fish but you have to catch several dozen.
He said commercially available so crappie is out... But it is the best
Catfish would be best but that got ruled out
Mahi Mahi like they do at snoopy's down in corpus is good
Or cod
I wouldn't fry flounder or snapper or salmon.... Unless u try tempura batter
Tilapia u could but meh
If u can hit a good fish market there would be more options but if only a place like heb you might just stick to shrimp unless they bring in Mahi
Catfish would be best but that got ruled out
Mahi Mahi like they do at snoopy's down in corpus is good
Or cod
I wouldn't fry flounder or snapper or salmon.... Unless u try tempura batter
Tilapia u could but meh
If u can hit a good fish market there would be more options but if only a place like heb you might just stick to shrimp unless they bring in Mahi
Crappie, speckled trout, white bass in that order.
Went to Snoopy's over the Memorial Day Weekend. Got the fried platter with fish, shrimp, and oysters. It was good, but I thought out of all the food we had that weekend, Giggity's in Port A had the best fried platter.trip98 said:
He said commercially available so crappie is out... But it is the best
Catfish would be best but that got ruled out
Mahi Mahi like they do at snoopy's down in corpus is good
Or cod
I wouldn't fry flounder or snapper or salmon.... Unless u try tempura batter
Tilapia u could but meh
If u can hit a good fish market there would be more options but if only a place like heb you might just stick to shrimp unless they bring in Mahi
That being said, catfish is my go-to for fried. OP, what doesn't she like about it?
Cod is probably going to be the best combo of good to fry and decent value. Not sure why you wouldn't fry Snapper or Flounder. Both are excellent fried as is Mahi
Tilapia is ass. If your wife doesn't like catfish, she probably won't like that mud eater either
Tilapia is ass. If your wife doesn't like catfish, she probably won't like that mud eater either
Red Snapper.
My fried fish is pretty legendary with my circle of friends. It's complicated, but, worth it. I make a wet batter followed by a dry dredge for my go-to.
Mix about a 1.25c of self-rising flour and a Shiner Bock to thin pancake batter consistency. Season with salt.
I chunk the fish or leave filets whole and marinate in the batter for an hour or two.
While that's going I make my dry dredge.
Take a sleeve of Saltines, a sleeve of Town House (or Ritz), zest of a lemon and some fresh parsley to a food processor. Pulse until it's a fine cracker meal.
Add a box of panko and 1/2c corn flour. Season the dry dredge with a little Slap ya Momma and old bay
Take the fish from the wet batter and drop in the dry. Dredge pressing firmly to coat.
Fry till GBAD
Mix about a 1.25c of self-rising flour and a Shiner Bock to thin pancake batter consistency. Season with salt.
I chunk the fish or leave filets whole and marinate in the batter for an hour or two.
While that's going I make my dry dredge.
Take a sleeve of Saltines, a sleeve of Town House (or Ritz), zest of a lemon and some fresh parsley to a food processor. Pulse until it's a fine cracker meal.
Add a box of panko and 1/2c corn flour. Season the dry dredge with a little Slap ya Momma and old bay
Take the fish from the wet batter and drop in the dry. Dredge pressing firmly to coat.
Fry till GBAD
Bluegill
DING DING DING!queso1 said:
Bluegill
Tilapia is disgusting trash fish.
FIDO*98* said:
My fried fish is pretty legendary with my circle of friends. It's complicated, but, worth it. I make a wet batter followed by a dry dredge for my go-to.
Mix about a 1.25c of self-rising flour and a Shiner Bock to thin pancake batter consistency. Season with salt.
I chunk the fish or leave filets whole and marinate in the batter for an hour or two.
While that's going I make my dry dredge.
Take a sleeve of Saltines, a sleeve of Town House (or Ritz), zest of a lemon and some fresh parsley to a food processor. Pulse until it's a fine cracker meal.
Add a box of panko and 1/2c corn flour. Season the dry dredge with a little Slap ya Momma and old bay
Take the fish from the wet batter and drop in the dry. Dredge pressing firmly to coat.
Fry till GBAD
I use your recipe and get nothing but rave reviews.
Meh. People not in the south often say the same about catfish.Ragoo said:
Tilapia is disgusting trash fish.
I am from the south and I agree with those people. I really only like catfish blackened.
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well, tilapia is an imported fish and don't survive in cold water so the regionality of your comment doesn't make sense.rootube said:Meh. People not in the south often say the same about catfish.Ragoo said:
Tilapia is disgusting trash fish.
Also, most people eat catfish bartered and deep fried exclusively. It isn't a delicacy but also doesn't taste foul, muddy sure but tilapia is down right putrid in taste.
Would FIDO *98* recipe work if you air fry the fish. Because of health reasons I now air fry any help is welcome. I love fried fish.
Just my preference are catfish, bluegills and crappie.
I also like haddock and have a never ending supply of halibut since I live close to AK and take trips up their each summer.
I also like haddock and have a never ending supply of halibut since I live close to AK and take trips up their each summer.
FIDO*98* said:
Cod is probably going to be the best combo of good to fry and decent value. Not sure why you wouldn't fry Snapper or Flounder. Both are excellent fried as is Mahi
Tilapia is ass. If your wife doesn't like catfish, she probably won't like that mud eater either
Reason I said don't fry flounder or snapper is that seems like a waste of such a fine eating fish when grilled. More meat than crappie, just as soft and tasty so fish like that in our house gets grilled
Occasionally blackened
Same goes for grouper
Or stuffed flounder is the bomb too
How has no one said specks or redfish?
Fresh speckled trout is fine but I don't see it sold commercially. I really like black drum sticks fried more than just about any commercially sold fish.
Orange Roughy or Flounder would be my choices from a grocery store.
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GreyhoundDad said:
Fresh speckled trout is fine but I don't see it sold commercially. I really like black drum sticks fried more than just about any commercially sold fish.
You're right. I have to go with flounder then.
I don't doubt that this tastes fantastic, but dang man, there's so much going on here that it could probably make a fried turd taste halfway decent because of everything going on.
Of course I'm exaggerating a bit. I'll leave that one for you to test out.
Of course I'm exaggerating a bit. I'll leave that one for you to test out.
BurrOak said:
I don't doubt that this tastes fantastic, but dang man, there's so much going on here that it could probably make a fried turd taste halfway decent because of everything going on.
Of course I'm exaggerating a bit. I'll leave that one for you to test out.
Paging ursus...
flounder, imo.
Walleye. Unfortunately I've never seen it on a menu down here.
Walleye or crappie
STX Ag said:GreyhoundDad said:
Fresh speckled trout is fine but I don't see it sold commercially. I really like black drum sticks fried more than just about any commercially sold fish.
You're right. I have to go with flounder then.
Both trout and redfish are game fish so it can't be harvested commercially. Black drum can and a barely legal black drum is about as good as it gets. I don't particularly like to fry flounder. The flavor is great but I find the meat to be a bit mushy for frying. I grilled some whole flounder last week and it was incredible.
Yellow cat, battered in corn meal, deep fried in hog lard.
To answer your question simply, get some tilapia, cut the lateral line out of it and as much of the red meat as you can. Its good fish. 90% of the restaurants are using it as their "fried fish" these days. If it taste putrid then it must have gone bad.
Along the same lines, people that say catfish taste muddy are having it without the red fat removed.
Should be a rule with all fish.
Along the same lines, people that say catfish taste muddy are having it without the red fat removed.
Should be a rule with all fish.
I would buy catfish and tell your wife it's tilapia or something else. I know I'm a bad husband for suggesting you lie to your wife, but I doubt she could tell the difference.
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