Recipe: Perfect Brad's panko tempura fried rockfish

Brad's panko tempura fried rockfish. Panko crusted rockfish fillets are hand breaded with a parmesan panko blend, then oven fried for the perfect golden brown crust. Serve these fried fish fillets as the main course in fish tacos, fish sandwiches, or even fish and chips. It's easy enough for a weeknight, but impressive enough for date.

If rockfish is not available, cod is a fine substitute — in fact, the photos for this recipe are actually of cod — but it is worth buying rockfish if you can find it. Deep-frying is a rare activity in my kitchen, so I chose to approximate the golden crust of fried fish by covering the fillets in panko and baking them in. The Daily Meal has a way for you to achieve crispy skin. You can cook Brad's panko tempura fried rockfish using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Brad's panko tempura fried rockfish

1. You need 5 of wild, fresh rockfish fillets.
2. It's 1 cup of flour.
3. Prepare 1 cup of rice flour.
4. You need 1 cup of ice cold water.
5. Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
6. Prepare 1 tsp of garlic powder.
7. Prepare 1 tsp of Chinese 5 spice.
8. It's 1 tsp of ginger.
9. It's 2 cups of panko bread crumbs.
10. You need of Dipping sauces.
11. Prepare of Szechuan peanut sauce.
12. Prepare of Oyster sauce.
13. Prepare of Hoisin sauce.
14. You need of Siracha sauce.

Coat the fish in flour, dip it in the egg, and coat with panko breadcrumbs. Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray, place the panko-coated fish on it. Not my biggest rockfish but I was able to land one from the north side. It was pretty slow the rest of the day and I was hungry for some Rockfish.

Brad's panko tempura fried rockfish step by step

1. Wash and make sure there are no bones in the rockfish fillets..
2. Place flour in a LG shallow dish..
3. In another shallow dish combine; rice flour, water, and seasonings..
4. Add panko to a third dish..
5. In a lg frying pan, add oil to 1/4 inch deep. Heat on medium high heat until oil is ready to fry..
6. Dredge fish in flour, then tempura, then panko. Fry until golden brown on both sides. Adjust heat according..
7. Drain on paper towels when done..
8. I served over herbed white rice. With each of the dipping sauces. Enjoy..

Dip fillet in flour, then in egg, then in Panko with old bay. Panko is widely used for fried food to cover the fish, meat, chicken, vegetable ect. And it often goes with tempura together. You may adjust the water to make it thick or thin. * Cold water and Egg are not necessary here. Fried fish with perfect crunch & amazing flavor.