Southern

Fried Whiting Fish

Name: Fried Whiting Fish
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 2 lb whiting fillets; 1.5 cups cornmeal; 1/2 cup all-purpose flour; 1 tsp salt; 1/2 tsp black pepper; 1/4 tsp cayenne; 2 cups cooking oil; 2 tbsp hot sauce

Arlene @arlene_memphis

Fried Whiting Fish is Southern home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

25 min Easy Pescatarian Halal Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2 lb whiting fillets
1.5 cups cornmeal
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp black pepper
1/4 tsp cayenne
2 cups cooking oil
2 tbsp hot sauce

How to cook it

Pat the whiting fillets dry and season with salt, pepper, and a pinch of cayenne.
Mix the cornmeal and flour on a plate.
Heat about 1/2 inch of oil in a heavy skillet to 350F.
Dredge each fillet in the cornmeal mixture, pressing to coat, and fry until deep golden and cooked through, about 3 minutes per side.
Drain on a rack and serve hot with hot sauce and slices of white bread.

Watch how to cook Fried Whiting Fish

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Serve it with

A Southern dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Fried Whiting Fish, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Fried Okra
  
  25 min
What it is eaten with
- Buttermilk Biscuits
  
  30 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Fried Whiting Fish carries gluten and fish. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Fried Whiting Fish
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	Yes	BBQ Chicken Drumsticks
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	Yes	BBQ Chicken Drumsticks
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 460 kcal
Protein: 48 g
Carbs: 26 g
Fat: 18 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 680 mg
Saturated fat: 3 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Fried Whiting Fish takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.