Catfish Italiano

Ingredients

• 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

Directions

1. 1

   Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

2. 2

   Lightly spray a shallow baking dish with cooking spray (olive or canola).

3. 3

   In a bowl, stir together oil, thyme, diced tomatoes, sliced olives, parsley, basil, chopped onions and lemon juice.

4. 4

   In the prepared baking dish, arrange the fillets skin side down and season with salt.

5. 5

   Spoon the tomato mixture over the fillets abundantly.

6. 6

   Bake, uncovered, in the middle of the oven for about 15 or 20 minutes or until fish is flaky.

7. 7

   Garnish fish with lemon slices and fresh Thyme .

8. 8

   Now comes the best part, sit down with your loved ones and enjoy !

9. 9

   Hope you will go wild for this dish as my family did.

10. 10

    You may want to serve this with risotto or tortellini .