Baked Catfish #Recipe by Maya Corrigan #vegetarian #glutenfree

Catfish is a mild white fish, popular in the South, where it is usually served breaded with cornmeal and deep fried. I don't deep fry anything, so I don't go looking for catfish, but I couldn't resist the meaty fish fillet (if that isn't a contradiction in terms) at our supermarket's fish counter. I found a simple baked catfish recipe online and adapted it to share today. The original recipe came from Lana's Cooking: https://www.lanascooking.com/baked-catfish.

Catfish prepared this way is quick to make and tastes delicious. The recipe would work with fillets of other kinds of fish as well. 

Ingredients

1 tablespoon minced fresh parsley or 1 tsp dried parsley
1/2 teaspoon salt or less
1/4 teaspoon paprika
1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
1/4 teaspoon dried oregano
1/4 teaspoon dried basil
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
10-12 ounces catfish fillets
Juice of 1/2 a lemon
1 tablespoon melted butter
1/8 teaspoon garlic powder

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Combine the first seven ingredients in a small bowl.

Place the fillets on a lightly oiled baking pan.

Sprinkle the herbs and spices you mixed over both sides of the fish.

Mix the melted butter, lemon juice and garlic powder in a small bowl.

Drizzle the mixture over the fillets.

Bake uncovered for 15-20 minutes or until the fish flakes.

Remove it from the pan and serve with your preferred sides and salad.

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Maya Corrigan writes the Five-Ingredient Mystery series. It features a young cafe manager and her young-at-heart grandfather solving murders in a Chesapeake Bay town. Each book has five suspects, five clues, and Granddad’s five-ingredient recipes. Maya has taught college courses in writing, literature, and detective fiction. When not reading and writing, she enjoys theater, travel, trivia, cooking, and crosswords.

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A PARFAIT CRIME: Five-Ingredient Mystery #9

Set in a quaint Chesapeake Bay town, the latest novel in Maya Corrigan’s Five-Ingredient Mysteries brings back café manager Val Deniston and her recipe columnist grandfather – a sleuthing duo that shares a house, a love of food and cooking, and a knack for catching killers.

At the site of a fatal blaze, Val’s boyfriend, a firefighter trainee, is shocked to learn the victim is known to him, a woman named Jane who belonged to the local Agatha Christie book club—and was rehearsing alongside Val’s grandfather for an upcoming Christie play being staged for charity. Just as shocking are the skeletal remains of a man found in Jane’s freezer. Who is he and who put him on ice?

After Val is chosen to replace Jane in the play, the cast gathers at Granddad’s house to get to work—and enjoy his five-ingredient parfaits—but all anyone can focus on is the bizarre real-life mystery. When it’s revealed that Jane’s death was due to something other than smoke inhalation, Val and Granddad retrace the victim’s final days. As they dig into her past life, their inquiry leads them to a fancy new spa in town—where they discover that Jane wasn’t the only one who had a skeleton in the cooler.

Read an excerpt and see where to buy A Parfait Crime.  

Praise for A Parfait Crime

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