Mustard Fried Fish – Fried Fish Perfection!

They are saying you’ll be able to’t educate an previous canine new methods. And for probably the most half, I are inclined to agree with that saying. Nevertheless, I not too long ago had the chance to study a way of frying fish from somebody who has been within the seafood restaurant trade and has additionally been a lifelong angler born and bred in New Orleans La. Robert Bordeaux is 68 years previous and he mentioned he’s been battering his fish fillets the identical manner since he was an adolescent and labored at some of the standard seafood eating places in New Orleans. “Rising up in New Orleans Deanies was a family title. I feel everybody ate there,” he mentioned. Bordeaux was answerable for manning the frying pots that have been used to fry fish. (and every part else on the menu) It’s there that he discovered the simplistic strategy of serving up probably the most scrumptious fried fish. “Earlier than working there. my household used a combination of uncooked eggs and milk for an egg wash,” he mentioned. “Then I noticed how the restaurant did it and I by no means appeared again!” Bordeaux mentioned the ingredient to serving up the right fried fish is just yellow mustard. “It sounds straightforward and too easy to be sincere however I haven’t discovered one other recipe that may beat it in all my years of frying fish,” he mentioned.

I had the prospect to check out the straightforward recipe at a barbecue for a number of fishing mates who I knew would function powerful judges. I ditched my previous technique of utilizing uncooked eggs and buttermilk and squeezed a half of bottle of yellow mustard right into a bowl. After stirring the fish fillets into the bowl and utterly overlaying the strips of fish I battered them in normal barbecue batter and added them to the fryer. Everybody had the prospect to attempt the fish and I obtained quite a few compliments on my “additional flavorful” fried fish. I even tried mixing in a bit of scorching sauce with the yellow mustard in the direction of the top of the occasion. These fish had simply the correct quantity of warmth and are undoubtedly an choice for many who get pleasure from spicy fried seafood.
For many who have by no means tried utilizing mustard as an egg wash to your fried fish, I might extremely advocate doing so. I’m 49 years previous and this new recipe seems to be to be a keeper for my household and me. Now I simply must come up with Mr. Bordeaux and see the place he catches the fish that go within the mustard!

Keith Lusher

Keith Lusher is an award profitable out of doors journalist that resides in Covington, Louisiana. He owns and operates NorthshoreFishingReport.com and writes a weekly out of doors column for the Slidell Unbiased Newspaper. He additionally writes for the St.Tammany Parish Tourism Fee’s LouisianaNorthshore.com and Louisiana Northshore Discover Journal. He’s the previous host of The Northshore Fishing Report Radio Present and is on the board of the Louisiana Outside Writers Affiliation. Keith contributes to quite a few publications each on-line and in print and prides himself on selling South Louisiana’s distinctive fishery.