Pan Fried Crappie

We live on one of the best Crappie lakes in the state and lucky for me it is one of my very favorite fresh water fish. Crappie is a very mild white fish that just melts in your mouth. I have a very close friend who is involved in some of the Crappie Tournaments that take place here at our lake as well as surrounding lakes. She recently brought me some beautiful Crappie filet's, and I was so grateful for every bite!

I am sure that these Crappie Filet's could be baked,but the way I fry them you would never know they were fried. They are out of this world delicious!

We Start This Recipe With Fresh Crappie Filet's

Marinade For The Crappie

Then The Coating

Cover The Fish

Deep Fry In Oil

Fry Until Golden Brown

Drain On Paper Towel

Fried Crappie

Miz Helen's Kitchen

Ingredients For Fried Crappie

12 medium size Crappie Filet's

1 cup buttermilk

1 cup yellow corn meal

1/3 cup all purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon pepper

1 teaspoon garlic powder

1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper

1 1/2 cup's vegetable oil

Directions

Place the cleaned Crappie Filet's in a baking dish and pour the buttermilk over the filet's. Make sure that each one of the filet's are covered well. Cover the dish and place in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours.

In a shallow plate, mix the cornmeal, flour, baking soda, salt, pepper, garlic powder, and cayenne. Mix all these dry ingredients well.

Remove the filet's from the refrigerator. 

Dredge the marinated filet's in the cornmeal mixture.

In a heavy skillet, (I use my iron skillet) pour the vegetable oil into the skillet. Heat the oil to 350 degrees.

Be sure that your skillet is deep enough so that when you put the fish in it won't go over and make a fire.

Just fry a few filet's at a time and that will help to keep it from going over.

Fry about 2 minutes on each side, until golden brown on both sides.

Remove and place on a paper towel to drain. You will be surprised because this is not oily at all.

We serve this with a wedge of lemon and dig in.

Enjoy!

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This Plate Of Crappie Is Ready To Enjoy!

Thanks so much to my friend Jana for the amazing catch!  I sure hope that you have enjoyed this awesome Pan Fried Crappie because we loved sharing it with all of you.  Hope you have a fantastic week and come back to see us real soon!

Peace and Joy

Miz Helen

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