Dinner Divas: Catfish Po Boy Sandwiches

As I mentioned previously, I am involved in a cooking blog group called the Dinner Divas. We have a choice of four recipes a month, and we make two, with or without our own variations, and blog about them.

My next pick was the Catfish Po Boy Sandwich, which came from Cooking Light, which I was really happy about.

Recipe

Ingredients:
2 tablespoons fat-free milk
1 pound catfish fillets, cut into 2 1/2-inch pieces
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup yellow cornmeal
1 tablespoon Cajun seasoning (such as McCormick) 
2 teaspoons vegetable oil
1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
2 tablespoons fat-free mayonnaise
1 tablespoon fat-free sour cream
1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
Dash of crushed red pepper
2 cups bagged broccoli coleslaw
4 (2 1/2-ounce) hoagie rolls with sesame seeds, toasted

Method:
Combine milk and catfish in a large bowl, tossing gently to coat. Remove fish from bowl; shake off excess milk. Sprinkle fish with salt. Combine cornmeal and Cajun seasoning in a large zip-top plastic bag. Add fish to bag. Seal and shake to coat.

Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add fish; cook 3 minutes on each side or until fish flakes easily when tested with a fork.

While fish cooks, combine vinegar and next 4 ingredients (vinegar through pepper) in a medium bowl. Add broccoli coleslaw; toss well to coat. Spoon 1/2 cup slaw mixture onto bottom half of each roll. Arrange fish evenly over each serving, and top with top halves of rolls.

Sissy's Variations:
The first two things I varied, I stole from the version on The Shannon's Kitchen blog. The first was simply to substitute the Cajun seasoning with Mrs. Dash Chipotle Seasoning. I also just used one large piece of fish, cut in half, instead of nuggets.

Next was I was I decided to bake "fry" them instead of frying. Even though it only called for a small amount of oil, I still decided I would try to omit that little bit of fat. I thought that worked out really well.

 

The last change I made was the coleslaw. Neither of us likes coleslaw, but I decided to play with the dressing for the coleslaw. I mixed it up as directed and added dried dill and a little pepper and salt substitute. I used this to dress the sandwiches and they were fabulous.

Served with shredded lettuce and tomato for Bill. And I just used some whole wheat bakery buns I bought earlier in the week.