I Don't Fry Fish IN OIL Anymore! NO Air fryer! NO Stove! Quick Crispy Fish

Hello everyone, welcome to Cira's Kitchen, today I will show you how to make

crispy

fried

fish

without having to fry oil. Now I like a piece of hard fried

fish

like the next brother or sister, okay, but Today I'm going to show you how to reduce your oil consumption and the best part is, you won't need any fancy equipment, not a deep

fryer

, honey, and you can prepare many pieces of fish at once. and it's going to be pretty good, let's go ahead and get off to a good start, so I bought some catfish fillets from my local fish, Mark, and I'm going to rinse them.

I'm also going to add a little bit of vinegar. I have five catfish fillets here that I'm going to use just to show you that you can make a lot of fish at once when you do the air

fryer

method, you can pretty much make two, but with this method I can make all this fish, so I'm just going to let it rest. in the vinegar and then I'll rinse it off and then I'll go in with my paper towels and blot up some of the moisture. the fish the fish will not be completely dry but I don't want it to be too watery either.

I'm going to take this paper tow ball and then I'm going to place it in the bottom of my bowl to catch any excess moisture and then of course, if you use the sink to clean meat, you need to clean the sink, okay, so just take some Dawn dish soap and get to work. I know some people like to use lye all the time, but I don't do that, I think this is Okay, now I'm going to start mixing the fried fish. Fried fish is just a combination of corn flour. I'm using cornstarch because I want it to be very crunchy and a little bit of flour and your choice of seasoning for the seasonings.

I'm using Bay Creo SE seasoning, lemon pepper, allspice, this is a spicy Cajun seasoning without salt so it has a lot of cayenne and a little bit of MSG, it's okay if you don't like it, it's accentuated if you don't like it. like. Don't play with it, then don't use it. I'm going to start mixing the fried fish in this fryer my mom bought me now. You don't have to have this you can just use a normal Weare sturdy container but my mom bought it for me so I'm going to use it okay thanks mom so I'm going to put the cornmeal in here and then all my spices, my cornstarch and my flour.

I'm going to put the small rack. here, then the lid, now I'm going to put the lid that I have on my lid, then I'm just going to shake to combine. You can also use a regular, sturdy container with the lid and you'll get a pretty similar result, but the difference is that it has the wrapper on the back so everything falls out after you coat it. You can definitely use a store-bought fish fry for this. This is my favorite if I use it, the only reason I sometimes don't. This is because the sodium content is quite high, so if you are watching your salt, make a homemade fried fish because you can adjust the sodium to what you prefer.

I'm not going to tell anyone how much salt they should use, but me. I'm just saying that, keep that in mind. It's okay, if you don't want a lot of salt, make your own; In fact, my recipe might have too much sodium for you, so adjust to your taste if you've been watching my videos. You all know I love using mayonnaise and mustard as a binder for my fish, that's my main thing I like to use, however I know some of you don't like mayonnaise, okay I don't know. I know what people have against mayonnaise, what's the problem?

Well, someone tell me why they hate mayonnaise so much. This is a real cooking ingredient. Okay, but since some of you hate mayonnaise so much, that's okay. I tried to give everyone an alternative so I'll add two eggs and then I'll use a little bit of hot sauce just shake it in there okay this won't get spicy it'll just add flavor well it might get a little spicy some of you have taste buds that can't handle anything, so it may be spicy for you, but now it's not spicy for me. I really love the taste of mustard so I like to put this here. you don't get the mustard flavor.

I must say, I should really say that it complements the fish very well. I'm going to use a fork to beat this really well. You don't need milk to make this, this is it. I need to and to be honest with you, buttermilk is actually not my favorite way to bind fish. I love it with chicken, but with fish it's just not my preferred way. Okay, let's go ahead and start coating that fish. I have a giant baking sheet. Here and I'm going to cover it with parchment paper. This box will get damaged, but I'm still using it anyway.

Okay, keep in mind that this is parchment paper. You don't want to use wax paper. They are different. I don't want the wax to stain your fish. Well, now I'm going to put this aside. You have two options for oil. You can use a regular oil spray like the one from a can or you can use this oil sprayer. Mine is a little. low so I'm just going to add a little bit of olive oil to be honest if you use a regular cooking spray that you buy at the store I personally don't think it will taste that good but you can all use whatever you want.

I prefer, okay, and you'll know it's right when I can spray like this, here's my air fryer, so we're going to have a lot of things to do here, okay, the first thing we're going to do if you have one of these. and if you fry a lot, maybe you'll get one. I'm going to have some of my fish. I'm going to make two pieces at a time and you can make this recipe with any fish, especially white fish, it really works. well, tilapia flounder, okay, whatever you want, I'm going to put the lid on it, so I'm going to shake it really well, you can even turn it over to be honest with you, I don't like to do too much. from an aggressive shake with fish just because fish fillets are more delicate than chicken, when I'm making chicken and pork, I just say that thing looks good, but with fish you have to be a little gentle.

I'm going to play. everything is fine now look that's fine look our fish fillets are well covered with their first layer of fish bra. I'm going to place them to the side. I'll put them in my pan for now, but we're not done yet. them I have my little workstation all set up so I'm going to take my fish, I'm going to pour it into the egg mixture and then I'm going to place it back here, that's why we're about to make a double layer baby, it's okay we're about to get that extra

crispy

fish mhm oh yeah okay once it's coated go put it in there then I'm going to top this off and shake it one more time if you run out of food.

Fish Fry, all you need to do is add a little more cornmeal, I'm just going to toss it back and forth, make sure the lid is on tight so you know nothing is escaping, well let's look at this wonder, It's okay, that's what I am. speaking of, see this nice coating on this fish? All my fish have been coated, however I left this one without a double coat because I want to show you the results you can get if you don't want a double coat. I know some. Some of you may not want all those carbs or whatever, you don't want to go through the effort of the double layer, so let's compare all of these have the double layer and this one only has one layer now. drizzle each one generously with olive oil and yes you need to drizzle with some kind of oil honey your fish will dry out if you don't put any in it's ok you need some ok you don't have to put in much but you need some The Devil Is Alive.

They're trying to tell you that you can't put oil on your fish and make it nervous, baby. They lie to you. Alright. They lie to you. They don't want to see you win. Alright? I'm going to turn my fish over and do the back, you know, a little, a little, a little bit of fat, there's nothing wrong with it, okay, you have friends trying to tell you that you know you have to live. a grease free lifestyle baby get a new FR you don't need as much oil but for demonstration purposes I'm going to show you what to do if you don't have a sprayer so I just have a standard little kitchen brush. and this is a little bit of oil and you can just spread it on top of the fish like this very lightly, especially if you've done this double layer, you can spread it all over the fish, so look, you don't have to go out. there and spend your money and don't buy anything else okay anyone can make this recipe if you don't have one of these baby bring a little paper towel and start rubbing you don't have paper towel I don't even know what to do .

I tell you just pour just pour there he gets you a napkin from McDonald's he steals a napkin from McDonald's preheat the oven to 425° I'm going to put this in the oven at 425° for about 15 minutes at that point the coating should be crispy you just want check it and make sure there are no dry spots and if there are you can spray those spots with a little oil. If your fish is thinner or you decide to do just one layer, you can adjust the time. as needed, I always suggest testing the fish before making the whole batch, but let's see what the cat is talking about.

Well, this is the only layer, not bad. Well, right here you can definitely hear it. This one has a double layer. Well, wait, very crunchy. on the edge I'll show you the other side, look you don't even need to turn it over to make it crispy, so this is my fish, they're all good, the one here in the front has one layer and this one now has two Les I will tell everyone my favorite fish tie, since everyone knows it is mayonnaise and mustard. There are so many mustard and mayonnaise haters that I didn't do that today and use egg, but honey, if you like it, do it.

I tell them it keeps the fish super moist. Okay, let's go ahead and see what we're talking about. I will tell everyone that this is the first time I do double layer, most of the time I do single layer. I'm going to put mustard and mayil, maybe a little bit of hot sauce and then I'm going to do a single layer, but today I changed it up, so I'm going to give you my honest opinion on how I feel about this recipe, so I'm going to start with the double layer first. , okay, let me just, don't get me into it, it's got a little bit of a crunch, can you see, okay, it's got a little bit of a crunch, a single layer right here, no I don't know how to do this other than just lift it up. this thing, it's also a little brown on the back M, so the single layer isn't as crispy, but I really like it, honestly, I feel like both methods are really good.

I think I like only one. coating because I am very used to that, but this recipe is really good, let me know if everyone is going to try this thank you for joining me in today's cira cooking, bye and God bless you.