All Recipes Best Recipe Seafood Fish Tilapia

Ingredients

10 (4 ounce) fillets tilapia salt and ground black pepper to taste ⅓ cup all-purpose flour 1 cup buttermilk 1 egg ½ cup all-purpose flour ½ cup yellow cornmeal 2 tablespoons seafood seasoning (such as Old Bay ®) ½ teaspoon baking powder ½ teaspoon baking soda vegetable oil for frying

Nutrition Info

214.4 calories carbohydrate: 15.1 g cholesterol: 60.7 mg fat: 4.7 g fiber: 0.9 g protein: 26.1 g saturatedFat: 0.9 g servingSize: - sodium: 512.9 mg sugar: 1.4 g transFat: : - unsaturatedFat: : -

Season fillets with salt and pepper. Dust with 1/3 cup of flour.
Beat buttermilk and egg in a bowl. Combine remaining flour, cornmeal, seafood seasoning, baking powder, and baking soda in another bowl. Dip all flour-dusted fillets into egg mixture, then into seasoned flour mixture.
Heat oil over medium-high heat in a large frying pan or deep fryer. Fry fillets, working in batches if needed, until golden, about 2 minutes on each side. Season again with salt as soon as your take them out of the pan or fryer.

10 fillets

In Wisconsin, the \"Friday Fish Fry\" is a time-honored tradition. This deep-fried tilapia is my family's way of bringing it home.