Cilantro Lime Catfish recipe

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Ingredients

¼ cup butter
¼ cup chopped fresh cilantro
½ teaspoon chopped garlic
5 (5 ounce) fillets catfish
salt and ground black pepper to taste
½ lemon, juiced
½ lime, juiced

Nutrition Info

272.1 calories
carbohydrate: 1.7 g
cholesterol: 89.4 mg
fat: 19.7 g
fiber: 0.6 g
protein: 21.8 g
saturatedFat: 8.3 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 132.8 mg
sugar: 0.1 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat. Stir cilantro and garlic into the melted butter, cook about 1 minute.

  2. Season catfish fillets with salt and black pepper, lay gently into the butter mixture. Place a cover on the skillet. Cook fillets 10 minutes, turn, and continue cooking until the fish flakes easily with a fork and is lightly browned, about 10 minutes more. Squeeze lemon juice and lime juice over the fillets to serve.

Recipe Yield

5 servings

Recipe Note

I was looking for a recipe for Mexican catfish and wasn't able to find exactly what I wanted, so I made my own version. I wasn't sure what it would end up like, but it tasted great.

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