Blackening is the perfect way to achieve a spicy upgrade. It's a traditional Cajun technique that involves rubbing fish or chicken with butter, and flavoring it with an assortment of seasonings.

Blackening is a cooking technique that involves searing meat or fish at high heat in a cast iron skillet coated with a spice mixture known as blackening seasoning. The high heat and dry heat of ...

We take the ubiquity of blackened fish on restaurant menus (or home dinner tables) for granted sometimes, but the technique for cooking the now-common, spice-encrusted, pan-seared filet with the ...