Easiest Way to Cook Tasty Home fried catfish steaks (bone in)

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)

1. It's 1 cup of flour.
2. It's 2 cups of yellow corn meal.
3. Prepare of sazon seasoning packet (2).
4. Prepare 2 of table spoon paprika.
5. You need 2 tablespoon of black pepper.
6. It's 2 tablespoon of salt.
7. You need 1 tablespoon of cayenne pepper.
8. You need 2 tablespoon of garlic powder.
9. Prepare 1 tablespoon of onion powder.
10. You need of vegetable oil.
11. Prepare 1 of whole catfish chopped into steaks or 4 fillets.
12. 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

1. Wash fish very well, dry and prep to season.
2. Mix all seasonings together except lemon pepper. Heavily and evenly sprinkle seasonging over fish steak too and bottom.
3. 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..
4. Place on packet of sazon into cornmeal and flour mixture for seasoning..
5. Place a couple steak into the breading and into the grease. Should not be popping but bubbly..
6. Cool for about 12-16 min flipping two or three times so breading stays golden brown and doesn't brown..
7. Allow drained grease on a paper towel and enjoy!.
8. 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.

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