Friday Night Catfish (Oven-Fried) WITH Tangy Tartar Sauce

Recipe Ingredients

		Tartar Sauce
1 cup	237ml	Plain low-fat yogurt
2 tablespoons	30ml	Sweet pickles - minced
2 tablespoons	30ml	Capers - minced
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Fresh tarragon - minced
		(or 1/4 teaspoon dried tarragon)
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Dry mustard
1/4 teaspoon	1.3ml	Salt
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Ground white pepper
		(or freshly ground black pepper to taste)
		Fish
1/2 cup	31g / 1.1oz	All-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon	1.3ml	Salt
1 teaspoon	5ml	Freshly ground black pepper
1		Egg white
1 teaspoon	5ml	Hot sauce
1/2 cup	118ml	Low-fat buttermilk
4 cups	640g / 22oz	Corn bread dressing crumbs - * see note
8		Catfish fillets

Recipe Instructions

1. To prepare the tartar sauce: Stir together the yogurt, pickles, capers, tarragon, dry mustard, salt and pepper. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

2. To prepare the fish: Preheat oven to 450F Line the bottom of a broiling pan with foil and place a rack in the pan. Set aside.

3. On a piece of wax paper, mix flour, salt and pepper. In a small bowl, beat egg white, hot sauce and buttermilk together. Place corn bread crumbs on a second piece of wax paper.

4. Coat each fillet lightly with flour and shake off excess. Dip into buttermilk mixture, then press bread crumbs onto both sides of the fish. Lay on the baking rack. Place pan in preheated oven and bake 12 minutes per inch of thickness, or until fish flakes.

5. serve with the tartar sauce on the side.

From "Low-Fat Soul" by Jonell Nash.

Source:
Seattle Times 2/12/97

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