First you need some fresh spinach.
Also, frozen tilapia (or fresh, but these were on sale, so mine are frozen). Celery, garlic, lemon and bread crumbs.
Dredge the tilapia in milk, then the bread crumbs. Set them in a pan with 2 TBS of olive oil in the bottom. Mix 1 TBS of garlic in 2 TBS of lemon juice. Add 1 tsp of salt. Spread the mix evenly over the fish and let it cook evenly on each side, turning once. It took about 3-4 minutes a side, even though mine were frozen.
Once the fish is done, turn off the heat and layer fresh spinach over the top. Cover with a lid and let them spinach steam until just wilted.
Heirloom purple potatos, carrots and the fish-spinach fry stuffed into the celery. Mmmmmmm.
Okay, we'll be back next week with something terribly unhealthy, but for right now... have some fish and veggies!
Oh, this sounds so good...and just right for a quick lunch!
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Oh, good! My kids loved it but they were unconvinced that anyone else in the world would be tempted by the photos.
ReplyDeletePoor steamed spinach and tilapia... So un-beautiful.
Un-beautiful, but I can taste it already!
DeleteAnd I love the purple potatoes. I'm planning my garden for this summer and considering growing potatoes vertically - I saw it online somewhere - and I'd love to do some of these heirloom potatoes!
ok I'll eat this 'guy style' - all separated! I want the tilapia left whole and the celery on the side! :-) of course mine left whole usually ends up sorta scrambled looking but still...and tilapia is one of the few fish I like (catfish too but like that stuff aunt jemima cornmeal-ed and fried baby fried! but tilapia I like unfried and healthified!
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I'm not a fish eater at all, so I was sort of surprised it how good this was. I may just be converted to having fish a few times a week!
DeleteI've never tried tilapia. We use haddock here for most everything, or rock bass and jack perch fresh from Lake Ontario....
DeleteIs tilapia a light, sweet-tasting fish, Mare?
I don't know if it's sweet or not. It's fish and it's not salmon or trout! That's all I know!
DeleteHmmmmm. I love fish. Just about all kinds. I hate tilapia.
ReplyDeleteSeriously. I don't know what it is. I bought it because every recipe under the sun seemed to be using it, but ugh. I don't think it was bad - just not good.
Any thoughts, Virginia?
I have nothing. Mostly because I don't eat fish. Not really, it's soooooo expensive out here. And I found this at our grocery outlet and it was reasonable for the amount in the bag. I didn't even really know how to cook it so I just made something up that was NOT fish tacos. There are only so many tacos I can eat!
DeleteI don't think tilapia tastes 'fishy' - I don't like a strong fishy taste :-( never tried haddock or rock bass or jack perch so can't compare. I don't usually crave any fish so whenever the urge for tilapia strikes every so often I try to eat it - same with the rare tuna craving..which might be coming on...
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eta: I say tilapia doesn't taste fishy but I've only had it frozen - those fillets that are in plastic then stuffed in a bigger bag..those haven't tasted fishy to me...
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See, maybe that's it. So much of their fishiness is gone after all the processing!
DeleteWe try to eat locally, but fish is the very definition of non-local unless it's summer and my hubby goes fishing.
Love tilapia for its lack of fishy taste. I put everything on it during farmer's market season: peach salsa, fresh Italian tomato sauce, or just throw olive oil and spices on it.
ReplyDeleteLove the idea of stuffing it into celery. You also have given me the idea of making fish tacos with lettuce wraps instead.
Mary Curry, I am wondering if you have the same issue a lot of folks do with certain foods. Everyone has different proportions of the sweet, salty, sour etc taste buds. Maybe, you don't have the right ones to enjoy it?
Peace, Julie
According to my husband (reader of the food trade magazines), tilapia is the fad fish right now. Remember when it was cod? Then cod got expensive, so then it was something else (whiting?). Now it's tilapia.
ReplyDeleteThe thing they all have in common is that they're easy to raise, have a mild flavor, and people buy it.
You know, that makes sense! Because I'd never heard of it before last year, then it seemed to be everywhere. We used to eat a lot of salmon caught from the Willammette River by the Clackamas and Yakima Nation Indian tribes, but then they got some contract with a distributor and the salmon is shipped out of state.
DeleteUmm hmm, out of state to Kansas, South Dakota, and other places that have no natural salmon :)
DeleteVirginia, you had me at tilapia. Love the stuff. Especially with garlic and lemon. Can I have it by itself though, without the celery? Pretty please? Purple potatoes I can do, raw celery, not a fan.
ReplyDeleteI KNOW!!! I'm so not a fan of celery. But I was trying to be (ARG!) healthy. I was aiming for fiber and low-cal. I suppose you could have it with wild rice or something else full of fiber, but then there would be carbs.
DeleteThen again, I never see any result of my 'healthy eating' so go ahead and throw the celery away!