Blackened Catfish with Comeback Sauce

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Blackened Catfish with Comeback Sauce- catfish fillets are coated successful melted food and cajun spices and cooked successful a ace blistery formed robust pan. Served with a tangy Comeback Sauce for adjacent much flavor.

Blackened Catfish successful formed robust skillet.

Blackened Catfish Recipe

This look is simply a quick and casual confederate catfish recipe. Restaurant-quality blackened food is casual to marque astatine location and I emotion that catfish is inexpensive compared to different fish.

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Blackened Catfish covered with Comeback Sauce connected a plate.

What To Serve With Catfish

Here are immoderate of my favourite sides to service with catfish.

Marinated Cucumber, Tomato, and Onion Salad
Pickled Cucumbers and Onions
The BEST Jiffy Hush Puppies
Buttermilk Cornbread Muffins
Stewed Okra and Tomatoes
The BEST Corn connected the Cob
Southern-Style Green Beans
Buttermilk Coleslaw

What Is Blackening?

Blackening is simply a Cajun and Creole mode of cooking food oregon meat. The food oregon nutrient is coated successful spices heavy and past cooked successful a precise blistery formed robust cookware until it develops a charred surface. Blackened nutrient has truthful overmuch spirit and it tin beryllium a small oregon a batch spicy.

The blackening seasoning I usage for this look is simply a fantastic operation of paprika, salt, bulb powder, ail powder, achromatic pepper, celery salt, thyme, oregano, and cayenne pepper.

How Spicy Is This Recipe?

With a spoon of cayenne capsicum successful the blackening seasoning, this food has a just magnitude of vigor but isn’t overly spicy. Reduce the cayenne successful fractional if you don’t privation it to person overmuch heat.

How To Tell When Catfish Is Done

Catfish is done erstwhile it turns opaque passim and flakes easily. Careful not to overcook it oregon it volition beryllium dry.

Catfish drizzled with comeback condiment connected a plate.

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Blackened Catfish with Comeback Sauce

Course Dinner, Main Dish

Servings

Calories 686kcal

Equipment

cast robust pan

Ingredients

Comeback Sauce

½ cup mayonnaise
2 tablespoons ketchup
2 teaspoons Texas Pete
1 teaspoon honey
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
¼ teaspoon garlic powder
¼ teaspoon onion powder

Blackening Rub

2 tablespoons paprika
1 teaspoon kosher salt
2 teaspoons onion powder
1½ teaspoons garlic powder
1 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon celery salt
1 teaspoon dried thyme
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper

Remaining Ingredients

2 to 3 catfish fillets
6 tablespoons melted butter
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
lemon wedges

Instructions

Make Comeback Sauce. Stir unneurotic each ingredients successful a tiny bowl. Cover and refrigerate until needed.
In a tiny bowl, disturbance unneurotic each spice hitch ingredients.
Pat catfish adust with insubstantial towels. Drizzle 2 tablespoons of the melted food connected the catfish.
Sprinkle apical of fillets with blackening seasoning. (Note: you volition not usage each of the blackening seasoning.)
Drizzle 2 tablespoons of the melted food connected the catfish.
Heat a formed robust cookware implicit medium-high vigor until precise hot. Add astir 1 tablespoonful of rootlike lipid to the skillet .
Place catfish, seasoned broadside down successful pan. Cook for astir 3 minutes and past flip over. Continue to navigator until food is cooked done (it volition beryllium opaque each the mode done and it volition flake easily.)
Serve catfish with Comeback Sauce and citrus wedges.