Fried Catfish With a Creamy Thai Sauce

Name: Fried Catfish With a Creamy Thai Sauce
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Thai, Asian
Ingredients: 3 basil leaves; 1 Tbsp brown sugar; 2 teaspoons canola oil; 118 milliliters cashews; 1 Tbsps crushed coriander seed; 79 milliliters cornmeal; 1 Tbsps curry powder; 4 fillets farm-raised catfish fillets; 1 Tbsp fish sauce (nam pla); 59 milliliters flour; 1 fresh ginger, minced; 2 cloves garlic, minced; 1 Tbsps garlic powder; 1 lime, juice of; 1 stalk fresh lemongrass, finely sliced; 118 milliliters ounces diced onions; 5 teaspoons red curry paste, to taste; 2 teaspoons salt; 397 grams unsweetened coconut milk; 2 Tbsps vegetable oil, to cover bottom of pan

Fried Catfish With a Creamy Thai Sauce is a dairy free and pescatarian main course. One serving contains 722 calories, 34g of protein, and 51g of fat. This recipe serves 4. This recipe covers 28% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up cashews, brown sugar, curry paste, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the fresh ginger you could follow this main course with the Fresh Ginger Cookies as a dessert. It is a pretty expensive recipe for fans of Asian food. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 25 minutes.

Instructions

Combine spices, salt, cornmeal, flour

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Cornmeal

Spices

All Purpose Flour

Salt

Coat catfish with mixture

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Catfish

Let sit while making sauce

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Sauce

In a saucepan heat 2 teaspoons oil add and saute onions, ginger, garlic and lemon grass until soft

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Lemon Grass

Garlic

Ginger

Onion

Cooking Oil

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Sauce Pan

Add red curry paste and cook add brown sugar, fish sauce, coconut milk, basil and lime juice

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Red Curry Paste

Coconut Milk

Brown Sugar

Fish Sauce

Lime Juice

Basil

Stir mixture

Place 1 cup of sauce mixture in a blender with cashews blending (carefully hot) well add back to pot

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Cashews

Sauce

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Pot

Cook over medium heat until thick about 5 minutes

Heat 2 tablespoons oil shaking off excess breading

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Cooking Oil

Add catfish and fry until golden brown, about 3-4 minutes on each side depending on size

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Catfish

Remove and drain on paper towels

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Salt fish

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Fish

Salt

Serve with white rice

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White Rice

Placing the fish over the rice and topping with coconut sauce

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Coconut

Sauce

Fish

Rice

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Recommended wine: Pinot Grigio, Gruener Veltliner, Pinot Noir

Catfish works really well with Pinot Grigio, Gruener Veltliner, and Pinot Noir. Fish is as diverse as wine, so it's hard to pick wines that go with every fish. A crisp white wine, such as a pinot grigio or Grüner Veltliner, will suit any delicately flavored white fish. Meaty, strongly flavored fish such as salmon and tuna can even handle a light red wine, such as a pinot noir. The Maysaran Arsheen Pinot Gris with a 4.5 out of 5 star rating seems like a good match. It costs about 18 dollars per bottle.