Cooking Catfish Outdoors With a Stick
1 Start your campfire so it can get warmed up. You want the coals to be hot, with small flames. You won't need a roaring fire to cook the fish.
2 Clean your fish before you begin to cook it. Slit the stomach open to remove any guts. Wash off the fish with fresh water. A catfish doesn't have scales, so you won't have to scale it. Skin it if you like, but that's not necessary. Cutting off the head is also optional. If your campfire's not ready yet, place your cleaned fish in a pan of cool water until you're ready.
3 Find a long sturdy stick that's thin enough to hold the fish. You want one that's long enough to reach the fire without your hands getting burned. Make sure to strip off any leaves that may be attached to it.
4 Place your stick through the fish's body. Make sure the stick is firmly stuck in the fish. If you leave the head on, you can probably ram the stick up into the head section, for a firmer grip.
5 Hold your stick with the fish on it, over the flames, turning frequently. You don't want your fish to catch on fire and burn up. Your fish is ready when the meat easily flakes apart.
This is a great way to cook when your camping with the kids. Although you might want to go ahead and cut the heads off if you have children. I have a daughter that just could not eat it with the head on so I had her cook her own without the head and she nibbled on the bones. My son 12 he thought it was the coolest thing and he couldnt wait to tell his friends when he got home that the catfish was watching him eat him.
ReplyDeleteThe fish was really good.