Cajun-Style Fillet of Catfish with Spicy Butter Sauce

Submitted by TPubmgjbd

"This works well with Talipia also. I didn't have bread to make fresh crumbs from once and used packaged crumbs but I much prefer the fresh crumbs. If you don't have fresh herbs, use half the amounts listed of dried herbs (but fresh is best)."

 

• Ready In: 40mins
• Ingredients: 16
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 6 catfish fillets (about 1/2 lb. each)
• 2.46-4.92 ml salt, depending on taste
• 4.92 ml lemon pepper seasoning
• 1.23 ml cayenne pepper
• 29.58 ml oil
• 177.48 ml melted butter, divided
• 236.59 ml fresh breadcrumb
• 59.16 ml fresh lemon juice, divided

• Butter Sauce

• 29.58 ml fresh parsley, minced
• 0.5-1.0 ml Tabasco sauce, depending on taste
• 9.85 ml Worcestershire sauce
• 0.25 ml ground cayenne pepper
• 59.14 ml chopped green onion (including tops)
• 4.92 4.92 ml thyme or 4.92 ml basil, chopped
• parsley (to garnish)
• lemon slice (to garnish)

directions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Rinse fillets and ry well.
3. Season each fillet with a mixture of salt, lemon pepper and cayenne.
4. Rub oil in a 9x13" glass baking dish.
5. Place fillets in prepared baking dish and top fillets with 4 Tablespoons of the melted butter.
6. Sprinkle with fresh bread crumbs and 2 Tablespoons of the fresh lemon juice.
7. Bake, uncovered, for 15 to 18 minutes, just until fish flakes easily.
8. Do not overcook.
9. Butter Sauce: Combine all remaining butter and lemon juice with other sauce ingredients, except parsley and lemon slices for garnish.
10. Simmer for 5 minutes.
11. Place fillets on serving dish, top with butter sauce and garnish with parsley and lemon slices.

Reviews

[focus4]

best ever.Just cut back on the lemonpepper as too much overwellms the all over taste.I used basa as it is a type of catfish and it was great.You could serve this to company and they would think that you had gone to a lot of trouble to make it.

 

[Marsha Mazz]

Thanks for posting this recipe. I needed to reduce the butter, so I used only 1 TBL per fillet. It was still very good. Also, I didn't have fresh bread crumbs, so I used the canned type for seafood, no harm, but fresh would have been better.