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Seared Catfish with Caper Sauce.


For the caper sauce Noun 1. caper sauce - allemande sauce with capers
sauce - flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food
, in a medium bowl, whisk together all of the ingredients. Season and set aside.

For the potatoes, in a medium saute sau·té  
tr.v. sau·téed, sau·té·ing, sau·tés
To fry lightly in fat in a shallow open pan.

n.
A dish of food so prepared.
 pan, heat the oil over medium heat. Add the potatoes, season, and saute until golden brown on both sides, about four minutes. Remove from the heat and set aside keeping warm.

For the catfish, in a medium saute pan, heat the oil and garlic over medium heat. Season and sear the catfish, skin-side down until desired doneness. Remove from the heat anti set aside keeping warm.

To serve, arrange some potato slices in the center of a plate and arrange some catfish on top. Drizzle some caper sauce and balsamic vinegar around the dish and garnish with caper caper, common name for members of the Capparidaceae, a family of tropical plants found chiefly in the Old World and closely related to the family Cruciferae (mustard family).  berries and rosemary.

(Serves 6)

For the caper sauce:

6 ounces extra virgin oh e oil

Juice of 2 lemons

1 1/2 tablespoons chopped salted capers CAPERS. Vessels of war owned by private persons, and different from ordinary privateers (q.v.) only in size, being smaller. Bea. Lex. Mer. 230.  

1 1/2 tablespoons chopped black olives

1 clove garlic, peeled and minced

1 1/2 teaspoons chopped rosemary

Salt and pepper
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 to taste

For the potatoes:

3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

2 Idaho potatoes, peeled, blanched blanch   also blench
v. blanched also blenched, blanch·ing also blench·ing, blanch·es also blench·es

v.tr.
1. To take the color from; bleach.

2.
, and sliced

Salt and pepper to taste

For the catfish:

3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

18 1-ounce catfish strips, skin on

2 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced

Salt and pepper to taste

For the dish:

Balsamic vinegar

For the garnish.

Caper berries

Rosemary leaves
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Author:OBAUER, RUDOLF
Publication:Art Culinaire
Article Type:Recipe
Date:Mar 22, 2001
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