re: Your best go to fried catfish recipe

My recipe -

Cut catfish into strips or thin filets.

Season fish (I use Cajunland seasoning with green onion).

Put fish into a plastic bowl or tupperware container.

Crack an egg (or two) directly into the fish, and toss it around until all the seasoned fish is coated with a slime of egg.

In another bowl or tupperware container, mix equal parts blue bag La. Fish Fry and yellow bag La. Fish Fry (I just use one bag of each).

Toss the seasoned, egg coated fish in the fish fry mixture, shake off access, and fry in lard at 350 until crispy.

Drain on a wire rack over paper towels in a box.

Of course you don't have to use lard. Canola works fine. If you don't havea wire rack, Dollar Tree sells cooling racks for baking. Get a cardboard soft drink box/tray and you're good to go.

I use Cajunland because it seasons well without overpowering. I blend the two fish frys because the yellow is straight corn flour, while the blue is a mix of corn flour and corn meal. I've found that the blue by itself comes out too gritty and dark, like it was fried in grits. When you do a 50/50 blend, it still comes out crispy, but nice and golden ... especially when fried in lard.