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How do you make fried catfish without the gritty cornmeal texture?

Posted on 2/15/17 at 11:48 am
Posted by PrimeTime Money
Houston, Texas, USA
Member since Nov 2012
27305 posts
Posted on 2/15/17 at 11:48 am
First off, I don't know anything about cooking. When I get fried catfish from various places, it seems there are two types of crust depending on where you go. Some places have the gritty cornmeal crust, and other places have a more smooth fried crust.

What do they do to get that non-gritty crust?

Here is a picture that seems to show what I'm talking about:




As opposed to the typical gritty crusted catfish like this:

Posted by Trout Bandit
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Dec 2012
13276 posts
Posted on 2/15/17 at 11:49 am to
Use corn flour instead of corn meal.
Posted by OTIS2
NoLA
Member since Jul 2008
50138 posts
Posted on 2/15/17 at 11:57 am to
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Posted by CHEDBALLZ
South Central LA
Member since Dec 2009
21934 posts
Posted on 2/15/17 at 12:20 pm to
quote:

Use corn flour instead of corn meal.


This
Posted by unclebuck504
N.O./B.R./ATL
Member since Feb 2010
1716 posts
Posted on 2/15/17 at 12:28 pm to
To say the same thing as everyone else, but in "layman's terms" since you said yourself that you "don't know anything about cooking" ... you want to look for "New Orleans Style" fish fry ... it's made with the aforementioned corn FLOUR as opposed to corn MEAL.

If using Louisiana Fish Fry Brand, it's in a yellow bag, and actually labeled "New Orleans Style with Lemon" ... if using Zatarains' it's the same thing ... corn flour.
Posted by PrimeTime Money
Houston, Texas, USA
Member since Nov 2012
27305 posts
Posted on 2/15/17 at 12:36 pm to
Thanks guys.
Posted by Napoleon
Kenna
Member since Dec 2007
69108 posts
Posted on 2/15/17 at 12:39 pm to
first post is right.

People usually use Corn meal or corn flour to fry fish.

Corn flour is finer corn meal.

Posted by diablo blanco
Oakdale, Louisiana
Member since Dec 2007
1081 posts
Posted on 2/15/17 at 1:39 pm to
There's also a product called cream meal that is a very fine ground meal. It is excellent on fish!
Posted by LSU Tiger Bob
South
Member since Sep 2011
3002 posts
Posted on 2/15/17 at 6:14 pm to
quote:

There's also a product called cream meal that is a very fine ground meal. It is excellent on fish!


It's all I use. Most places I eat cat outside of the house uses this.
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