Oven Fried Catfish With Dill Tartar Sauce

PollyB's Note:

I love catfish and this does hit the spot.

• Total Time: 32 mins
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 2

• 1⁄3; cup dry breadcrumbs
• 2 tablespoons butter , melted
• 2 (6 ounce) catfish fillets (1/2 inch thick) or 2 (6 ounce) other white fish fillets (such as orange roughy)
• 1⁄3; cup regular mayonnaise or 1⁄3; cup low-fat mayonnaise
• 1 tablespoon sweet pickle relish
• 1 tablespoon chopped fresh dill or 1 teaspoon dried dill
• 1 tablespoon drained capers

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
2. Place breadcrumbs and melted butter in separate shallow dishes.
3. Cut each fish fillet crosswise in half.
4. Season fish with salt and pepper.
5. Dip fish into butter, then into breadcrumbs, coating completely; place fish on baking sheet.
6. Bake fish until crisp, brown and just cooked through, about 12 minutes.
7. Meanwhile, stir mayonnaise, relish, dill and capers in small bowl to blend.
8. Season tartar sauce with salt and pepper.
9. Transfer fish to plates.
10. Serve fish with tartar sauce.
11. Recipe can be doubled.

Reviews

[Bekah49036]

This was the first time that I've ever prepared catfish and it turned out great! I used panko instead of regular bread crumbs and baked them for about 15 minutes. They were cooked perfectly. The tarter sauce was good as well but I think I strayed to far from your recipe to rate it. I didn't realize I was out of relish until I had already started making it so I chopped up some pickles and added a Tbs of sugar. Then added some of the caper juice and dill until it tasted good to me. :) But thank you for the idea. I will be making this again.

[SharonB]

Excellent! I used an egg instead of the butter to cut the fat even more. The combination of sweet relish and dill made the tartar sauce very tasty.