0030. Baked Blackened Catfish

Cook Time:

30 minutes

Prep Time:

10 minutes

Servings:

4

Wait Time:

0 minutes

Ready Time:

40m

Rating:

• 1/4 (teaspoon) cayenne pepper
• 2 (teaspoon) lemon pepper
• 2 (teaspoon) garlic powder
• 2 (teaspoon) salt
• 2 (teaspoon) pepper
• 1 (pound) catfish fillets
• 2 (tablespoon) butter
• 1 (cup) Italian-style salad dressing

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a medium baking dish.
2. In a shallow, medium bowl, mix cayenne pepper, lemon pepper, garlic powder, salt and pepper.
3. Brush both sides of catfish fillets with butter. Rub fillets with the spice mixture on both sides.
4. Heat a large heavy skillet over medium-high heat until really hot. Add fillets, and fry approximately 2 minutes on each side, until slightly blackened.
5. Arrange blackened fillets in a single layer in the prepared baking dish, and coat with Italian-style salad dressing. Bake 30 minutes in the preheated oven, until fish is easily flaked with a fork.

From FoodOnTheTable.com

0009. Lemon Garlic Orange Roughy

PK loves orange roughy, but I've never made it before. So I jumped on SparkPeople.com to find a recipe that looked good. You wouldn't believe how many recipes there are for orange roughy! I made PK sit down with me to look through them all, and we finally decided on this one. He was a little hesitant about it because he's tired of lemon juice with fish (it's my go-to when I'm cooking fish and I tend to go a little overboard, since I hate the taste of fishy-tasting fish, lol), but the rest of the ingredients looked yummy, so we decided to give it a go. It was a resounding success. He went back for seconds and asked for thirds, but by then Monkey and I had already finished off ours. Too bad, I was really hoping for leftovers for lunch tomorrow. We paired it with rice pilaf and fresh snow peas. Nomnomnom.

Lemon Garlic Orange Roughy

Ingredients

1 lemon
2 crushed cloves of garlic
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
12 oz orange roughy
1/5 tsp each paprika and cumin
1 tsp pepper
salt to taste
1 tbsp olive oil

Directions

squeeze lemon juice into a zip top bag large enough for fish. add garlic and red pepper flakes, shake bag and marinate in fridge for 30 min. in a small bowl mix paprika and cumin, s & p; rub spice into both sides of fish. heat the oil in a large nonstick skilletover med heat. add the fish flesh side down and cook for 6 minutes. flip and cook another 6 minutes.

3 oz a serving.

Number of Servings: 3