Cajun Fish Recipes

Tasty and spicy but not too spicy is how you could sum up Cajun cuisine. There is a characteristic blend of ingredients and cooking methods that follow tradition and that includes Cajun fish recipes. Seafood plays an important part in that tradition and is often combined with favorite vegetables, rice and seasonings. Cooking is often based on fish stock or shellfish stock. Fresh herbs, paprika and ground cayenne pepper give dishes a distinctive flavor. Onion, bell pepper and celery are key to many dishes.

Shellfish is often used and the most popular is crawfish, shrimp, blue crab and oysters. Freshwater fish is likely to be bass, white perch, and yellow perch. Catfish is increasingly popular as the commercial farming of the fish grows. T...