California Farm Spicy Catfish Nuggets
Spicy Catfish Nuggets are all-you-can-eat finger food. Served with two other finger foods, crispy sweet potato french fries, and breaded winter carrot rounds. Washed down with apple cider or beer.
Served family style with ketchup, tartar sauce, buttermilk dip, you fill your own plate and enjoy sharing food and company.
All food items are deep fried in the same oil, potatoes first, carrots next, fish is last, because the oil absorbs the fish odor and taste. The fish oil is kept in a separate container to be reused for future fish frying only.
California Farm Spicy Catfish Nuggets
Spicy Catfish Nuggets are all-you-can-eat finger food. Served with two other finger foods, crispy sweet potato french fries, and breaded winter carrot rounds. Washed down with apple cider or beer.
Served family style with ketchup, tartar sauce, buttermilk dip, you fill your own plate and enjoy sharing food and company.
All food items are deep fried in the same oil, potatoes first, carrots next, fish is last, because the oil absorbs the fish odor and taste. The fish oil is kept in a separate container to be reused for future fish frying only.
Cooking Instructions
- 1
Slice potatoes full length in 1/2” thick slices, then 1/2” thick sticks. Fry sweet potato french fries in hot oil, 350F degrees, 5 minutes. Drain in basket, turn heat up to 375F degrees, fry again for five minutes, drain on paper towel, salt, keep warm in 250F degree oven.
- 2
Slice carrots in rounds, unpeeled, 1/4” thick. Activate sweetness in the carrots first in boiling water, ten minutes, drain, dry. Coat with egg, bread crumbs and cheese. Fry carrot rounds in hot 350F degree oil till crisp, 4 minutes, drain on paper towel, keep warm in oven.
- 3
Make catfish nuggets. Skin catfish fillet, lay fillet skin down, insert knife between flesh and skin, scrape, skin pulls away quite easily. Now cut filets in 1 1/2” by 1 1/2” pieces. Marinade one hour in buttermilk, mustard and thyme.
- 4
Test fry at 350F degrees. Mix dry corn flour with corn meal and baking powder, roll one marinaded nugget through flour mix, test fry till flakey and taste. Now add half the spices to the flour, fry a second nugget, taste. Add the rest of the spices if desired. Fry a few at a time till flakey, about 3 minutes. Drain on paper towel, keep warm. Serve with warm potato fries and breaded carrot rounds. Enjoy.
- 5
Filter cooking oil through funnel with paper towel into stable mason jar and pour into separate container labeled fish fry oil.
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