How to Prepare Tasty Southern Catfish Stew

Southern Catfish Stew. Welcome to James Keeping It Real Cooking Southern Catfish Stew. In this video of the first part of two series I'm showing how to cook southern catfish stew. Classic Southern catfish stew recipe with potatoes, stewed tomatoes and fatback or bacon.

And when the chef wasn't slurping catfish stew at the dinner table, he was dishing it up at the barbecue buffets where it. Catfish stew is a dish commonly found in the Southern United States, particularly in South Carolina. It typically consists of catfish fillets (taken from the sides of the fish as the belly meat is considered to be of poor quality) which are heavily boiled so that they fall apart. You can have Southern Catfish Stew using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Southern Catfish Stew

1. Prepare 2 lbs of catfish fillets; cubed.
2. Prepare 1 can of diced tomatoes.
3. Prepare 1 can of stewed tomatoes.
4. Prepare 3 of large potatos; peeled & cubed.
5. Prepare 7 of bacon strips.
6. Prepare 3 tsp of cayenne pepper.
7. It's to taste of salt & pepper.
8. You need 2 of celery stalks; sliced.
9. It's 2 of carrots; sliced.
10. Prepare 3 tsp of ground thyme.
11. You need 1 cup of water.
12. Prepare 1 of sliced yellow onion.
13. It's 2 cloves of garlic.

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Southern Catfish Stew instructions

1. Line the bottom of crockpot with bacon strips..
2. Turn crockpot on high & add cubed potatoes & garlic cloves..
3. Add diced tomatoes....
4. Add cubed catfish....
5. Add sliced onion & sliced carrots.
6. Add stewed tomatoes....
7. Season & add celery & water. Cook on high without stirring for 4hrs. Should look like this at the 4 hr mark....
8. Continue cooking on high for another 2 hrs..

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