Catfish Italiano

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 6 catfish fillets
• 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
• 1 (14 ounce) can diced tomatoes
• 1 teaspoon thyme (fresh off the stem or granulated )
• 1 (4 ounce) can black olives (sliced )
• 1 teaspoon parsley
• 1/2 teaspoon fresh basil
• 2 garlic cloves (minced )
• 1/2 cup vidalia onion (sweet, finely chopped )
• 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
• 6 sprigs thyme
• 6 lemon slices

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• 2 lightly spray a shallow baking dish with cooking spray (olive or canola).
• 3 in a bowl, stir together oil, thyme, diced tomatoes, sliced olives, parsley, basil, chopped onions and lemon juice.
• 4 in the prepared baking dish, arrange the fillets skin side down and season with salt.
• 5 spoon the tomato mixture over the fillets abundantly.
• 6 bake, uncovered, in the middle of the oven for about 15 or 20 minutes or until fish is flaky.
• 7 garnish fish with lemon slices and fresh thyme .
• 8 now comes the best part, sit down with your loved ones and enjoy !
• 9 hope you will go wild for this dish as my family did.
• 10 you may want to serve this with risotto or tortellini .