Catfish Sauce Piquante

As Bayou Bakery chef-owner David Guas's Aunt Boo likes to say, "once you've got the roux done right, everything other astir Cajun cooking falls into place." It takes clip and limb powerfulness to make the roux; she says a due 1 should beryllium "the colour of the bayou aft a dense rain." Here, it serves arsenic the basal of a long-simmered condiment that has conscionable the close magnitude of spice.

Lemon foodstuff and citrus slices brighten things considerably. Feel escaped to permission the slices successful erstwhile serving; Aunt Boo says they are "fought over" astatine her table.

Don't beryllium acrophobic to nurture a pronounced spiciness successful the sauce; support successful caput that its level of salt, spice and vigor volition diminish erstwhile the food is added and the crockery is served with rice.

Adapted from "Tastes, Tails & Tales With the High Priestess of the Bayou," by Janice Boo Macomber (self-published, 2009).

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 8)

• Calories

  420

• Fat

  25 g

• Saturated Fat

  4 g

• Carbohydrates

  25 g

• Sodium

  720 mg

• Cholesterol

  80 mg

• Protein

  23 g

• Fiber

  3 g

• Sugar

  6 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Tastes, Tails & Tales With the High Priestess of the Bayou," by Janice Boo Macomber (self-published, 2009).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.