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Title: Mustard and Onion Crusted Catfish with Corn Salsa
Categories: Fish shellf, Spa, Main dish, Condiment
Yield: 6 Servings

3 Red onions; thinly sliced
3 tb Coarse-grained mustard
6 Catfish; (6-oz) fillets
Nonstick cooking spray

---------------------------------CORN SALSA---------------------------------
6 c Fresh corn; approximately
-nine medium ears
3/4 c Chopped green onion
1 1/2 Red bell peppers; diced
1 1/2 Jalapeno peppers; diced
1 1/2 Limes; juiced
Salt and black pepper; to
-taste
6 Corn tortillas

Preheat oven to 350F. Spread onions on a nonstick baking sheet and bake for
about 15 minutes, until golden brown. Set aside to cool. Do not turn off
oven. Apply half of mustard to 1 side of fish fillets, then press half of
onion mixture on top.

Coat a skillet with nonstick cooking spray. Place the onion side of the
fish down first in the skillet; apply the remaining mustard and onion
mixture to the top of the fillets. Cook for 6 minutes undisturbed over
medium-high hest. Turn the fish, and cook for 6 more minutes undisturbed.

Place fish on a nonstick baking sheet, then finish cooking in the oven 8
to—10 minutes, or until the fish is firm.

To make the corn salsa, remove corn from the cob; rinse kernels to remove
starch. Stanch for 30 seconds. Drain, and mix with onion, bell peppers and
jalopenos. Add lime juice, then salt and pepper.

Transfer 1 fillet onto each of 6 plates, and distribute salsa among them.
Serve with a tortilla (warmed, optional).

Per serving: 449 calories, 33 percent fat (16.4 grams), 38 Percent carbs,
29 percent protein. This recipe slightly exceeds the recommended 30 Percent
calories from fat. However, these are omega-3's.

>recipe from SHAPE Cooks Spring 1998. >form kitpath to mcrecipe in 98Feb

Notes: >Recipe from article, "Ranch—Style" by Kirsty Clarke Brown (Spring
1998). Healthful lunch menus from Pennsylvania's Nemacolin Woodlands Resort
& Spa. Allow: Prep/cook time: 1 hour, 20 minutes.

MENU: Sweet Corn and Crab Meat Chowder; Mustard and Onion Crusted Catfish
with Corn Salsa; Woodlands Fresh Berry Cobbler (berries with biscuits).
Menu is intended to be eaten midday after strenuous outdoor activity.

Recipe by: Kirsty Brown for SHAPE Cooks

Posted to MC-Recipe Digest by KitPATh on Feb 21,
1998