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Garlic Baked Fish
March 8, 2019 Lee
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Garlic Baked Fish

Just a Pinch Recipe Club - Amy Herald, United States
This recipe comes from a good friend, fish can be any mild whitefish, such as cod, orange roughy, shark catfish, or barramundi. Common ingredients and even one shortcut is listed. On my to make and taste list for sure. Link to the Shortcut is listed in the Recipe Notes section.
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Course Main Dish
Cuisine American
Servings 4 servings

Equipment

  • Oven
  • Baking Sheet with Rack

Ingredients
  

  • 1 kilo whitefish fillets, boneless, skinless, (2 lbs)
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 4 cloves garlic, smashed and chopped
  • ¼ cup fresh parsley, chopped
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ teaspoon black pepper
  • 1 cup seasoned breadcrumbs, Shortcut
  • 1 egg
  • lemon or lime wedges, for serving, as desired

Instructions
 

  • Preheat your oven to 200° C (400° F), line a baking sheet with foil and place a rack on the sheet. Crack the egg into a shallow bowl and lightly beat to mix it together.
  • Add the butter and olive oil in a non stick pan on low heat. When hot, add the garlic and saute for 1 minute.
  • Remove the pan from heat, add the breadcrumbs, parsley, salt, and pepper, and mix together.
  • Dip a fish fillet in the beaten egg, then roll in the breadcrumbs mixture and place on the prepared rack. Repeat for all fillets.
  • Bake for 12-15 minutes, or until coating is golden brown and fish flakes easily with a fork.
  • Serve with lemon or lime slices and sides of your choice. Enjoy.

Notes

Low cost per serving.
Shortcut: Seasoned Breadcrumbs.
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Baked Lemon & Garlic Tilapia
May 23, 2017 Lee
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Baked Lemon & Garlic Tilapia

Stephen Connell, United States.
Excellent tasting fish, can use any white fish you like, such as Pangasius, Barramundi, or even Tub Tim.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 12 minutes
Total Time 22 minutes
Course Main Dish
Cuisine American
Servings 3 servings

Ingredients
  

  • 3-6 tilapia fillets, or any white fish fillets
  • 6-8 cloves garlic, smashed and diced large
  • ¼ cup butter, melted
  • 4 tablespoons fresh lemon juice, or lime juice
  • 3 teaspoons fresh parsley, chopped, or 1 teaspoon dried
  • 1 teaspoon dried oregano
  • salt and pepper, to taste

Instructions
 

  • I bought a fresh Tilapia (live) from a vendor that came by the house. I filleted it (which is NOT the preferred way by the family) and got two nice thick fillets, removing the pin bones, I cut them out in a strip, resulting in 4 pieces. The head and back bone went to the brother in law and he made soup with that, so everything was used.
  • Preheat your oven to 200° C (400° F). Get out a baking dish, size will depend on how many fillets you are using. I used an 8x8 Pyrex dish for 2 fillets which was perfect.
  • Melt the butter in a small sauce pan. Pour half the butter into your baking dish along with 1 tablespoon of the lemon juice, mix and spread out.
  • To the sauce pan, add the garlic and saute on low heat for about 1 minute. Add 3 tablespoons of the lemon juice, remove from heat and stir together.
  • Place the fish in the baking dish, and season with oregano, salt, and pepper. Pour the lemon butter mixture on the fish and top with fresh parsley.
  • Bake for 12-15 minutes, fish should just be starting to brown and should flake easily with a fork. Transfer to a plate, spoon some of the liquid over the fish, serve and enjoy.

Notes

Tilapia is low cost, if getting the fish from a open market, the seller will fillet for you for free most times. Tilapia can also be caught on rod and reel in many ponds, making the meal essentially free.
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Grilled Tilapia
December 2, 2015 Lee
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Grilled Tilapia

Rrayada Thayer, Thailand.
Tilapia is a very common freshwater food fish, it grows rapidly, lots of meat, and only a backbone and rib bones, no Y bones in the meat. This is inexpensive, we normally grill 1 fish per 2 people and have a side of just raw cut cabbage, cucumbers and spring onions and fresh cooked rice. We have made this at the house many many times. This recipe is for 1 whole fish for 2 people, more people, just add more fish, if you are a big fish eater, grill two for 2 people.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Course Main Dish
Cuisine Thai
Servings 2 people

Equipment

  • Grill, Charcoal or Gas

Ingredients
  

  • 1 fish large tilapia, whole
  • lemon grass, fresh, several 3 inch pieces, smashed, see Step 2
  • ginger, fresh, and 1 inch piece, sliced thin, see Step 2
  • Kafir lime leaves, fresh, tear into several pieces, see Step 2
  • salt, lot of salt, like a bag of salt, see Step 3

Instructions
 

  • First thing you need to do is clean the fish, NO NEED to scale the fish, the salt will take care of that, just make a slit on the belly of the fish, or side, and remove entrails and wash out with clean water, remove the gills if leaving head on, if you wish to remove the head, no problem, do that now.
  • For the lemon grass, lime leaves, and ginger; if you buy the fish from an open fresh market, many times these will be included with the price of the fish, they are tied together and simply added to the bag with your fish. If you are buying the fish in say, Tesco, then you need these items on hand.
  • Stuff the cavity with the lemon grass, lime leaves, and ginger. Place in a large bowl.
  • Now for the salt, regular table salt is fine, if you can locate sea salt, that is fine, the salt is not for a flavoring of the meat, it is to remove the skin, salt is cheap, let the salt do the work, hence the reason not to scale the fish.
  • With the bag of salt, generously pour that over the fish in the bowl, you want to cover the fish in salt, spread it around with your hands as well, turn the fish over and repeat on the other side, you cannot have too much, you want the fish to be white.
  • With a hot grill, place the fish on the grill and cook about 8-10 minutes or so, then flip the fish over and cook the other side. It will get charred, that is the salt charring.
  • Take fish off from grill and place on a plate, at the table, using 2 forks, simply peel off the skin off and enjoy.

Notes

Tilapia runs about 60 Baht per fish, this is Blue Nile Tilapi. This would be $1 per meal per person for 1 fish, if you like fish and eat a whole one, then $2 per person, either way, a very economical meal. 
A note about the lemon grass, use several short pieces or one long, piece, either way smash it up good to let the flavor come out, if using a long piece, as in the photos, tie in a over hand knot after smashing.
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