Cookware: cup, bowl, whisk, knife, cutting board, flat dish, two plates, frying pan, paper towels.
Ingredients
| Name | amount |
| Catfish steak (large) | 2 pcs. (800 g) |
| Chicken egg | 2 pcs. |
| Wheat flour | 3 tbsp. l |
| Lemon juice | 2 tbsp. l |
| Breadcrumbs | ½ stack. |
| Vegetable oil | 100-120 ml |
| Seasoning fish (any) | 1 sachet (to taste) |
| Salt | pinch |
Step cooking
Pickling catfish
- Thaw two large catfish steaks (about 800 g). Beat one chicken egg in a bowl, and mix with a whisk, without whipping, with a pinch of salt. Cut each steak into portioned pieces (4-5 parts) and put in a flat dish.
- All pieces pour 2 tbsp. l lemon juice and dip, handling, on all sides.
- Put pieces of sea fish in a bowl and mix with egg mass.
- Season the contents of the bowl with fish seasoning to your liking, mix again and leave to marinate for about half an hour.
Fried breaded fish
- After thirty minutes set aside for pickling sea fish, drive another chicken egg into a separate cup and shake it too, without whipping.
- Sprinkle breadcrumbs on two plates. Pour half a glass of breadcrumbs into one plate, 3 tbsp into another. l flour. Place the dishes on the table in the following order, from left to right - flour, a shaken egg, breadcrumbs.
- Drain the egg marinade from the fish bowl. Roll each portion piece first in flour, then dip in the egg and breaded in breadcrumbs.
- Neatly prepare all the fish portions prepared for frying in a flat dish. Pour 100-120 ml of vegetable oil into the pan and put on the middle flame of the burner.
- Put breaded catfish pieces into very hot oil.
- Fry over medium heat on both sides until golden brown.
- Put the finished fish on a layer of paper towels to remove excess vegetable oil and fish oil.
Serving and decoration
Served fried in breading catfish with a side dish - boiled potatoes or rice, as well as fresh vegetables (tomatoes and cucumbers), sliced medium-sized slices. Decorate a fish dish with any greens - sprigs of dill, parsley or arugula.
Video recipe
I propose to watch a video tutorial on frying such a moody fish in cooking, like catfish. In the video, each step is shown in sufficient detail - both the preparation of the fish for frying, and the process of frying catfish in a pan. And also voiced the basic rules for breading sea fish.