Catfish with Apple-Fennel Salad & Pickled Pearl Onions – TCI

Ingredients

• 1 cup water
• ½ cup rice vinegar
• ⅓ cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 tablespoons kosher salt
• 1 whole garlic clove
• 1 teaspoon mustard seed
• 1 teaspoon black peppercorns
• 1 teaspoon chopped fresh ginger
• ½ jalapeno pepper, seeded and chopped
• 1 tablespoon grapeseed oil or canola oil
• 1 cup white pearl onions, peeled and cut in half
• ½ cup diced Red Delicious apples
• ½ cup diced Granny Smith apples
• ½ cup diced fennel bulb
• ½ cup Mandarin orange sections, cut in half
• ½ cup golden raisins
• 8 teaspoons chopped fennel fronds (tops of the fennel)
• 4 U.S. Farm-Raised Catfish fillets
• Olive oil
• Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste