Recipe - Sauteed Catfish With Ginger Peach Sauce

GINGER PEACH SAUCE
1 tablespoon Butter
One half teaspoon Ginger, ground
16 ounce Peaches, cut or sliced up ; drained
1 cup Fruit spread, peach
1 tablespoon Catsup
1 tablespoon Vinegar, white wine

CATFISH
One half cup Flour
1 tablespoon Thyme leaves; crumbled
1 teaspoon Salt
One half teaspoon Pepper, black
1 One half pound Catfish fillets
2 tablespoon Oil
1 tablespoon Butter
One half cup Pecans, chopped

You may use 1One half cup peeled cut or sliced up fresh peaches instead of the canned
peaches.

Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat; add ginger and stir 1
minute. If using fresh peaches, add and cook, stirring occasionally, until
peaches are fork tender, about 2 minutes. Add canned peaches, if using, and
preserves; stir until jam melts. Stir in catsup, vinegar and hot pepper
sauce. Transfer mixture to a blender or food processor and whirl until
peaches are coarsely chopped. (Sauce can be cooled and refrigerated up to 2
weeks) To serve, warm sauce, stirring, in a sauce pan over medium heat.

Makes about 2 cups.

In a medium size bowl or pie plate, combine flour, thyme, salt and pepper.
Rinse fish and pat dry. Dredge fish in flour mixture; shake off excess and
lay fillets in a single layer on a plate. In a 10 to 12 inch frying pan
over medium heat, heat oil and butter; add pecans and stir until fragrant,
1 to 2 minutes. Transfer nuts to paper towels to drain. Add fish to pan,
without overlapping (you may need to cook in 2 batches) Cook until fish is
crisp and golden on bottom, about 4 minutes; turn fillets over and cook
until fish is opaque and tender in center of thickest area, another 4
minutes. Transfer fish briefly to paper towels to drain then arrange on
plates. Spoon about 3 Tablespoons warm Ginger Peach Sauce over each
serving; sprinkle with pecans.

Makes 4 servings.

Ginger Peach Sauce is a nice counterpoint to the savory crispness of the
fish. Keep some around to try with fried catfish, fried oysters or grilled
shrimp.

Per serving, including 3 Tablespoons sauce: 433 cal./ 23g prot./ 31g
carbo./ 4g sat./ 11g mono./ 9g poly./ .3g om3/ 66mg chol./ 413 mg sdm.

From: Simply Seafood Magazine Winter 1991

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