Outdoor Fish Fry Recipe (2024)

A Southern alternative: use catfish with cornmeal coating. It couldn't be any simpler. Cover the bottom of an 8 x 8 pan with cornmeal. If you like it crunchy, add some coarse ground cornmeal to that. Sprinkle a thin layer of salt and cayenne pepper to taste over top, then mix it well. When you are ready to fry, coat both sides of each filet in the cornmeal mixture and cook on each side about 3 minutes, depending on the size of the filets. The key is to coat the fish right before frying.

In your initial blurb it says you can use a roasting pan on a gas grill. Then in the TIP sections it says NOT to use a gas grill - which is it - please clarify. Do you mean you can use a roasting pan on a gas barbecue but you can't use this method on an indoor gas stove? Thanks!

Instead of frying, put fish in a shallow baking pan and bake in a hot oven (400?), brushing each piece with a bit of olive oil. Won't be quite as brown as with frying but easier and lighter.

Yes, sounds great, but...that's an indoor fish bake not an outdoor fish fry.

My family uses Walleye or small mouth bass. We fry our fish in a skillet over a campfire or a propane camping stove when we are canoe camping in Ontario or Manitoba. Cut the fish into small pieces. The oil needs to be very hot, and never skimp on the amount of oil. We catch only what we can eat at the next meal, so they are very fresh (and for conservation reasons). This year we will be in northern MN instead, due to the border closures. Oh, Canada, we miss you so - but will be back in 2022!

I think the southern way is to simply dip it in Buttermilk and then roll in cornmeal with a little salt and deep fat fry it. My uncle had a couple of fryers outdoors, one for fish and the other for hush puppies.

Well, I have tried all sorts of coatings for frying fish. Cornmeal is the only one I really like, though I accept restaurant "fish and chips," which is done in egg batter, as a very distant second. All the bread crumb stuff I have found is just hooey, whether I cook it myself (so I don't any more) or others do so. Always tastes like scorched bread, and you can't taste the fish.Corn meal, the only really good way to coat fish for frying.

Fish choices: bass, tilapia, blue fish, catfishServe with mango coleslaw and crispy oven fried potatoes.

Indoors or outdoors, for recipes like this, induction is your friend, and much,much safer than any gas.

Haddock (wild caught) works very well, also. You generally can find it fresh and inexpensive at shopping club stores. My variant on this recipe (which I made to oohs and ahs this past week), includes finely chopping fresh dill, parsley and thyme and adding to the beaten eggs. Also, importantly, if you like your fish crispy but not overdone, toast the panko (takes about 5 minutes in a toaster oven) first before coating filets.

I’ve got a Traeger (wood pellet) grill that can reach 425. Will it work, and will it be safe?

Really easy and really good. We made it inside because, well, quarantine. But it wasn't that messy. We used frozen cod from Aldi and while I'm sure fresh bass would be better, the cod tasted great. A great way to get your kids to eat fish. Yum.

Daniela: I believe he’s saying to use the burner at the side of a gas grill. Don’t use the grill grates due to fire hazard.

The Old Bay Spice mix has sufficient salt to obviate the need for the tablespoon of kosher salt in the initial flour-mix, IMHO. I fry the cod pieces until the color is about right ~ about half the time that's needed to fully cook the fish ~ then distribute the fish onto a parchmented sheet. After all the fish is prepped and on the sheet pan(s) then they go into the over at 350f for 6 mins to finish the cooking. This way the fish is ready for the table at the same time.

This made with fresh Haddock and served up with a side of Lunenburg Hodge Podge soup of new vegetables, cream and Canadian Smoked back bacon is just the best August meal ever. Thank you NYT!

In your initial blurb it says you can use a roasting pan on a gas grill. Then in the TIP sections it says NOT to use a gas grill - which is it - please clarify. Do you mean you can use a roasting pan on a gas barbecue but you can't use this method on an indoor gas stove? Thanks!

If you want to do a smaller amount, and don't have a propane burner or want to permeate the indoors with odor, preheat cast iron pans in the oven, brush the fish with some oil, and cook. I did 3 mins/side at 400 degrees, but I would turn the heat up next time, and maybe cook a bit longer. I used perch fillets; I don't know if that made any difference, since I am largely fish illiterate. Anyway, it was tasty, easy, and crunchy--certainly not decadent like real fried fish, but still good

try this same recipe using mako shark cut into small squares anddeep fried made it once and every one devoured it made over 5 lbs. and not a crumb left

I can see that I could use any spice mix instead, but for the international readers, what is Old Bay mix?