Whats the best mix for frying fish?

If you don't like cornmeal in your breading (Bless your heart), seasoned flour is all you need. Salt, pepper and flour. I like a 50/50 mix of flour/cornmeal. Keep the fish simple. If you want to jack up the flavor, you could make a remoulade. Covering up the taste of good fish should be a sin.

Add some cayenne pepper to the mix. Also a pinch of corn starch to the flour/cornmeal mix will add crispness. I've found draing fried food on a paper bag works better than paper towels.

I Love cornmeal, never thought of mixing it with flour though, good idea. I will implement both flour and cornstarch in my new mix, see what the wife thinks.

Thanks

I've had excellent luck with a product called Andy's Fish Seasoning. Its a mixture of very fine ground corn meal and wheat flour with added spices. Really delish and have also used it for fried green tomatoes and okra.

I use a dry wet dry method with the last dry stage being Panko bread crumbs. Talk about crispy!

Is that Andy's seasoning something I can pick up at any grocery store?

I use a dry wet dry method with the last dry stage being Panko bread crumbs. Talk about crispy!

I love the panko!

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PC....yes...you can get it at WalMart

I've had excellent luck with a product called Andy's Fish Seasoning. Its a mixture of very fine ground corn meal and wheat flour with added spices. Really delish and have also used it for fried green tomatoes and okra.

They've got it at Publix. $1.49 for a bag that says it will do 8 Lb. of fish.

The best thing I can offer up here is that you need to use CRACKER meal instead of corn meal. Season as you would the other but makes a great batter that is not as "gritty" as corn meal.

I use to break up Ritz crackers and using that on the fish. Damn good coating.

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We (well, actually I) have always used Zatarain's Fish-Fri (which is basically cornmeal) with a few good shakes of Creole seasoning and seasoned salt. But after reading this thread I might get branch out a little.

And SGG is correct about the paper bag. We use two of them whenever we fry a turkey. Hasn't dawned on me to use one for fish. Of course, unless it's a couple of small whitefish filets or shrimp or scallops with my electric skillet, I don't allow fish frying in the house