Thread: favorite fish batter

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1 can of beer
2 cups of flour
3 eggs

2 teaspoons baking powder
salt and garlic powder to taste
a little more beer for thin batter
fry on medium heat and enjoy--shu

Originally Posted by shuorc

1-2-3

1 can of beer
2 cups of flour
3 eggs

2 teaspoons baking powder
salt and garlic powder to taste
a little more beer for thin batter
fry on medium heat and enjoy--shu

I use the same recipe except mine calls fer 1- 6 pack of beer. 1 fer the batter and 5 to make sure you can swallow the batter and hushpuppies.

I like to mix 3/4 BASS PRO UNCLE BUCKS ORIGINAL SPICY with1/4 part Harold Ensleys fish fry.

see my "secret recipe" at http://www.crappie.com/gr8vb3/showthread.php?t=40995

I like it, my family likes it, my neighbors like it, so I figured I'd share it. It's really simple and seasonings can be adjusted to taste. The last batch I made was for some bullhead that we got, but I use it for most all kinds of panfish fillets.

like crappiepappy, I grew up enjoying fish done a lot simpler. No filleting, we would scale them, gut them, cut out the fins, and chop the head off. To cook, we rolled them in a mixture of flour and salt and pepper and pan-fried them in butter or crisco. They were yummy!!!

Nowadays, I can fillet a fish a whole lot quicker than I can scale one, and since I have enough problems finding time to fish, I don't want to spend any more time than necessary cleaning them - so now I fillet everything. I don't know why, probably because of the skin, but fillets don't taste as good when we cook then the way we cooked fish when I was a kid, so for fillets, it's beer batter for me.

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My favorite for bream, crappie or bass is to take 3 parts corn meal, one part instant pancake mix, a little salt, pepper and a few dashes of Old Bay seasoning. Put all in a big freezer bag, drop in a few fillets, shake-em up and then into the hot oil they go. Um-um, getting hungry just thinking about it :D

andys :D
http://extra.astecsales.com/andys.html
the best my wife also uses it for pork and chicken!

Cornmeal and only the quacker brand in the round box it is ground finer and not as gritty as some . just salt pepper and cornmeal.

also at times for a change i will brush the fillets with prepared mustard and roll them in cracker crumbs. thats great tasteing also.
~ sticko ~

Originally Posted by Reelcrappiefisher

andys :D
http://extra.astecsales.com/andys.html
the best my wife also uses it for pork and chicken!

This is the best store bought mix. Cajun,yellow or red.
Chicken breading is good also.

I've used several of the bass pro seasoning I got for christmas and they've all been okay but I think I prefer to just use corn meal with salt, pepper, and garlic salt......not a lot of folks use the garlic but I think it adds a really good flavor but don't go overboard