Down Home Deep Fried Fish
Who can resist deep fried fish recipes? You'll love the Down Home Deep Fried Fish, one of our favorite pan fried fish recipes.
Ingredients
- deep fat or oil for frying
- 8 medium white fish fillets, or 4 large
- 4 ounce plain flour or self raising flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon butter, melted
- 5 ounce milk
- lemon wedges to garnish
Instructions
- Half-fill a deep pan with melted fat or oil.
- Heat until a faint haze rises from it (or until a bread cube sinks to the bottom of the pan, rises to the top immediately and turns golden in 50 seconds).
- Sift the flour and salt into a bowl.
- Beat to a smooth batter with unbeaten egg, butter and milk.
- Coat 2 pieces of fish with batter.
- Lift into the pan with a fork or kitchen tongs.
- Fry until crisp and golden, allowing about 6-8 minutes for large pieces and 4-5 minutes for medium.
- Remove from the pan and drain on absorbent kitchen paper.
- Repeat with the remaining fish. Garnish with lemon wedges.