Southern
Blackened Catfish
Blackened Catfish is Southern home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 4 catfish fillets
- 1 tbsp paprika
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- 1 tsp cayenne
- 4 tbsp butter
- 1 lemon
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
How to cook it
- Pat the catfish fillets dry.
- Mix the paprika, smoked paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, thyme, cayenne, salt, and pepper into a blackening spice.
- Coat both sides of each fillet generously with the spice mixture.
- Melt 2 tbsp butter in a cast-iron skillet over high heat until it just begins to smoke.
- Cook the fillets until the crust is charred and the fish flakes easily, about 3 minutes per side, adding more butter as needed.
- Squeeze the lemon over the top and serve.
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 | Cajun Jambalaya |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Cajun Jambalaya |
| 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
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Meat or fish
- How this was set
- Hand audited
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.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on catfish and lemon.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
Meal suggestions support your goals. They are not medical advice. Please ask your doctor about your family's health needs.