I usually bake mine.
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I usually bake mine.
Crappie in the fryer with a mix of corn meal, flour, garlic, lemon pepper, salt, and onion powder.
Danged tasty.
1st coat the fillets with mustard within a Ziploc bag.
2nd coat the mustard fillets with a half and half mix of corn meal and flour within a Ziploc bag. Add whatever seasoning you like to corn meal/flour mixture.
3rd fry to perfection.
Something I can do better than catching them is eating them.
1)Wash fillets. Dredge in flour. Trip through egg wash. Put panko and Lawry's Garlic Salt in a plastic bag. Shake fillets in bag. Deep fry at 325 until light brown. Dust a little garlic salt on top.
2)Works well for sandies, hybrids, or crappie. Melt three tablespoons butter in skillet. Chop two large onions into pan(about 3/4" deep, medium heat), and cover. When onions are about half way to clear, place fillets on top of onions, sprinkle with creole seasoning or cayenne and cover. After about 2 or 3 minutes fish should be white and flake. With a spatula lift onions and fillets together. Enjoy.
Large bowl of melted butter. Cast Iron Skillet heated to the max. 1 container of Zataran's Blackening Seasoning (Walmart carries it). Dip the fillet completely in the butter. Sprinkle the Zatarans on both sides of the fillet. Drop the fillet in the skillet. cook 1 minute each side. Enjoy.
Salt fillets, coat in sour cream, roll in crushed jalapeno Cheetos (not red hot Cheetos), broil at 500 sitting on foil till crispy, do not flip.
Buttermilk soak in fridge overnight.
Yellow cornmeal with slap ya mama and Tony's creole to taste.
Giveum the hot grease disease.
Another way
Pan fry in lard with a heavy coat of mama's
It will take a few seconds off your life but you'll be happy as a Crack head at a Crack house
Scale them.
Use basket
Coat fish with grape seed oil and heavy mama's
Cook over post oak fire turning often.
When you can pull meat off bone in a large chunk they are done
Salt and pepper fillets. Coat fillets in a 1:2 mix of four/cornmeal. Pan fry in Crisco and butter until golden brown. Crappie don't need much more than that!
Fill pan with water and bring to a boil. Add one package of Zatarains crab boil and salt. Cut crappie into small chunks and put in boiling water for about 2 minutes. Longer than a couple minutes and it falls apart. Take out of water and eat with cocktail sauce while it's warm or chill it in the refrigerator before eating. If you like shrimp cocktail you better cook alot this.
Gotta ask. Where do you buy the slap ya mama ?
They sell it at Homeland or other smaller grocery stores more than at WalMart. It's good stuff for items that need some heat.Quote:
Originally Posted by TimY
Academy even has it.
Damn it TimY, now I am going to have to try this because it got my mouth watering. Love shrimp cocktail and love Zatarans crab boil. now off to catch me some crappie and to get me some crab boil!Quote:
Originally Posted by TimY
Most of the time with any fresh fish I simply salt and pepper and then cook it lightly in some melted butter. Sometimes I change it up and dip in a milk/egg wash, coat with something and then drop in the fryer but my family generally prefers it the first way.
Tried this recipe the other day and was really impressed. Will be using it as one of my go to recipes.
2 eggs
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
1 cup milk
1/4 cup hot sauce(this is optional and I left it out due to family not liking spicy food)
1/2 stick butter
2 to 4 lbs crappie
1 cup flour
1 cup corn meal
cracked pepper
salt
oil
Combine eggs, cream, milk and hot sauce in bowl. Melt butter and pour in as well. Mix and then submerge fillets. Soak in fridge for 2-4 hours
Combine flour and corn meal in large Ziploc bag. Shake to mix dry ingredients.
After fillets have marinated coat with salt and pepper to liking and then put fillets in flour/corn meal bag and shake well.
Fry fillets however you chose. I fry in a deep fryer around 425 degrees or so for several minutes.
Sea salt, lemon pepper and let sit for an hour. Wrap fillets in bacon. Grill till bacon gets crispy. Enjoy
I experimented around a bit in the kitchen last night trying to to come up with a good non-fried recipe. I hit on one. Pat dry fillets, salt, coat with roasted pineapple and habanero sauce from sams club, cover both sides with coconut flakes. Broil uncovered on 500 for 6 min, cover fillets loosely with a piece of foil and bake 2 more min., do not turn over. Salty & sweet with a little bit of heat, Oh-my!
crappie tacos:
add salt and pepper to fillets. Batter- 1 cup all purpose flour, 1 table spoon baking powder, 1 table spoon corn starch, salt and pepper. Mix. On separate bowl. Mix beer and 1 egg. Mix beer and egg with flour mixture. Dip fillets and fry. Heat corn tortillas on skillet or directly on the stove fire. Make pico de gallo which is jalapeno,cilantro,tomato and fresh squeezed lime juice. Enjoy. Beer battered crappie tacos.
Just to help everybody out, I mentioned small chunks but they are about 2 in x 2 in and thicker fillets. To small and they will fall apart when boiled. Hope this helpsQuote:
Originally Posted by TimY
Fishers, most of the stuff you cook has to be transported in glass. It so toxic, it will eat any other container!Quote:
Originally Posted by Fishers
Shoot TimY!! That 2x2 clarification just knocked lots of people out of trying this. Not that i can think of anyone, but rdjj71m, hope you read this clarification before you try it!:RoflQuote:
Originally Posted by TimY
If yall like spicy you gotta try this. get the chunkiest picante sauce you can find. let the fillets marinade in the chunky picante for a couple of hours then apply your favorite corn meal batter. the onions and pepper in the picante will stick to the fillets then get coated with the batter. fry to golden brown and enjoy with cold beer cuz your mouth will be a burnin