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Cajun Stuffed Catfish on Creole Wild Rice

Name: How to cook Cajun Stuffed Catfish on Creole Wild Rice - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

WeekendWarriors

Cajun Stuffed Catfish on Creole Wild Rice

I wanted to make a gourmet entre with catfish, instead of the regular blackened or fried catfish. I created this recipe & used crabmeat & shrimp in the stuffing & blackeye peas & spices in the wild rice dish.

Ingredient

Food ration :

4 servings

Cooking time :

40 mins

Catfish fillets

1/2 lb

shrimp

1/2 lb

crabmeat

onion

bell pepper

4 clove

garlic

1/2

sleeve saltine crackers

1 stick

unsalted butter

2 tbsp

Cajun seasoning

1/4 tsp

cayenne pepper

wild rice mix

2 cup

wild rice

1 can

black eye peas

1 tbsp

onion flakes

1 tbsp

garlic flakes

1 tbsp

cajun seasoning

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Dice onion, pepper & garlic very small & cook in saute pan with a little olive oil & pinch of salt until soft. Remove from pan & put in bowl.

* Step 2

In a touch of oil & butter cook cleaned chopped shrimp until they turn color & then add the crabmeat & cook for 1 minute. Remove & put in the bowl with veggies & let sit until cooled.

* Step 3

Melt a stick of butter & let cool.

* Step 4

Roughly crush the saltine crackers & add to the bowl with the old bay seasoning, cayenne pepper, salt & pepper & gently fold into the mixture & add the melted butter & gently mix. The stuffing is done.

* Step 5

Season both sides of the catfish with salt & pepper & stuff a healthy amount of the stuffing into the inside part of the fillet & wrap the fish around it overlapping slightly on the bottom.

* Step 6

Crush a few saltine crackers finely and add cajun seasoning & small pinch of cayenne pepper & mix & sprinkle on the top of the rolled fillets.

* Step 7

Heavily grease a pan with butter & add stuffed catfish with folded side down & cook in 350° oven until done (approximately 20 minutes) & put under broiler for a minute to brown slightly if needed.

* Step 8

Rinse rice 3 times & add into a pot with all the ingredients expect the beans with the amount of water on rice cooking directions. Bring to a boil & stir & reduce flame to low.

* Step 9

When half way cooked add the black eyed peas & stir & let finish cooking.

* Step 10

Plate bed of rice & serve with a stuffed catfish on top.

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Tag

catfish fillets Shrimp crabmeat onion Bell pepper garlic Sleeve Saltine Crackers unsalted butter cajun seasoning Cayenne Pepper wild rice mix wild rice black eye peas onion flakes garlic flakes

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