Southern
Blackened Catfish
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Pat the catfish fillets dry.
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Mix the paprika, smoked paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, thyme, cayenne, salt, and pepper into a blackening spice.
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Coat both sides of each fillet generously with the spice mixture.
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Melt 2 tbsp butter in a cast-iron skillet over high heat until it just begins to smoke.
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Cook the fillets until the crust is charred and the fish flakes easily, about 3 minutes per side, adding more butter as needed.
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Squeeze the lemon over the top and serve.
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Serve it with
A Southern dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Blackened Catfish, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Blackened Catfish carries dairy and fish. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | BBQ Chicken Drumsticks |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | BBQ Chicken Drumsticks |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 310 kcal
- Protein
- 26 g
- Carbs
- 2 g
- Fat
- 22 g
- Fiber
- 0 g
- Sugar
- 0 g
- Sodium
- 480 mg
- Saturated fat
- 9 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Blackened Catfish takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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