Cajun Catfish Katsu

I love southern food, I love Japanese food. This is so far my favorite fusion of the two.

I made this in the airfrier. You can easily modify this recipe to just fry the fish if you don't have one, but, health or whatever.

Time

About half an hour

Needed Equipment

• An Airfrier

Ingredients

Name	Amount
Catfish	1 pound
Flour	Enough to cover all of the fish
Panko	Enough to cover all of the fish
Eggs	4-ish
Hot Sauce	Follow your heart
Cajun Seasoning	Follow your heart

Instructions

Prep

1. Cut the catfish down, to roughly chicken finger size
2. Fill a bowl with the flour. Put salt and a little Cajun Seasoning in it
3. Fill a bowl with Eggs (4-ish) and a bit of hot sauce, whisk it
4. Fill a bowl with the panko

Cooking

5. Put the fish in the flour and completely cover it. Let it sit for about 5 minutes.
6. Once the fish has finished resting, shake the loose flour off of it, then submerge it in the eggs. Let it sit for about 5 minutes.
7. Once the fish has finished resting (again), pull it out of the eggs (one at a time), let any extra egg drip off of them. Put the fish into the panko. Cover the fish in panko, then press lightly to make it stick.
8. From here, this is the part you could replace with regular frying if you wanted, here are the airfrier instructions. Place all the fish that you can fit in a single batch into an oiled tray, and spray both sides of each piece of fish with oil.
9. Fry for 5 minutes at 400, then flip and fry another 5 minutes. Note the beginnings of the crunch while you flip it.
10. Enjoy!