FRIED CATFISH! FINALLY Greaseless & Low Calorie
26th Oct 2009
I just made DIET Fried Catfish and if you love fried catfish like I do - YOU HAVE TO MAKE THIS AS SOON AS POBBILE!!!
Look at this! And it tastes as great as it looks!
in a gallon baggie put …
1 - cup cornmeal
1 - cup whole wheat flour
2 Tablespoons Lawry’s seasoned salt
2 Tablespoons Garlic salt
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 teaspoon ground thyme
…and shake this a lot so that it is well mixed.
Take your catfish filets and if they are big or long cut them into medium sized pieces.
Dip the pieces in skim milk.
Then drop about four pieces at a time into the gallon baggie and shake until the dry batter mix covers them completely.
Lay the pieces on a paper plate and spray generously with butter flavored cooking spray.
Take those same pieces and lay them on a raised grill that you make on a baking pan, butter flavor sprayed side down. In the photo above you’ll see that I used skewers at the top of the photo and they lay across the pan perpendicular. Once the fish is on the raised grill (butter side down) spray the remaining side with butter flavored cooking spray so that the fish is sprayed on both sides equally.
I also used a grill that came with my toaster oven to raise the fish above the pan too. You can see it in the photo as well.
The secret to making this just like real fried catfish is raising it above the surface of the pan. If it lays on the flat surface - the fish juices up.
I baked mine 25 minutes on 350 and then my husband made a low cal (40 calories for the whole recipe) tartar sauce:
4 T fat free mayo
1 T dill pickle juice
dash of Kosher salt
dash of Worcestershire
1/2 tesp horseradish
and the totals on 1/4 of the whole batch of fish in the photo - and that’s a lot of fish-
217 calories
3g fat
1g fiber
18 carbs
I looked up Popeyes Fried Catfish and the same amount of their fried fish is 410 calories..
Neil, my husband, with eyes about to fall out of his head - said I can’t tell that this is not FRIED catfish. I couldn’t either…it was wonderful, so if you cook this is a real winner and VERY healthy!
