Baked Tilapia With Lots of Spice

"This is a fabulous recipe for oven fried tilapia slightly adapted from Paul Prudhomme's wonderful "Fork In The Road" lower fat cookbook. I served this for dinner with family and it got rave reviews. Even my picky 5 year old eater enjoyed it. The ingredient list here is long, but is mostly spices. Please don't be put off, this is wonderful stuff and once you get the spice mixture combined, quite easy to make."
 
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Ready In:
29mins
Ingredients:
14
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Preheat the oven to 450 degrees.
  • In a small bowl combine the spices from the salt through the Italian seasoning and set it aside.
  • In a shallow container mix the bread crumbs, dried parsley, and green onions.
  • Measure 4 tsp of the spice mix and sprinkle that all over the 4 fish fillets.
  • Add the remaining spice mix to the bread crumbs, mixing well. Add the olive oil to the bread crumb mix, blending it in with your hands.
  • Dredge the fish in the breadcrumbs, coating well.
  • Shake off any excess breadcrumbs.
  • Place the fish on a baking pan that has been sprayed with non-stick spray.
  • Bake for 6 minutes.
  • Turn over and bake for 4 minutes.
  • Turn over again and bake until flaky, about 4 more minutes.
  • Serve immediately.

Questions & Replies

  1. Do you use wet or dry breadcrumbs?
     
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Reviews

  1. This recipe is great except it's WAY TOO SALTY!!!!! I'm still going to give it four stars, because I will try making it again with less than half the amount of salt the recipe calls for. I really hope people come across my comment or others before the make this for dinner, because it's VERY SALTY!!! Other than that, the spice blend creates a great flavor for the tilapia :) YUM!
     
  2. This could have been a really good seasoning blend, however it turned out WAY too salty for my taste (and I love salt)... so much so that the tilapia went straight into the trash. Next time I will try with a lot less salt...
     
  3. I made this the first time with the breadcrumbs and then again last night without the breadcrumbs - both were amazing, I actually liked it without the bread crumbs a little better. I just brushed some olive oil on the fillets and then sprinkled very generously with the spices - Amazing.
     
  4. I agree with some other posts. We too thought the spice mix was too salty. I suggest using 3/4 teaspoon of salt instead of the 1 teaspoon. You can always add more to your taste. Other than that, the recipe was very good and we'll use it again.
     
  5. AWESOME recipe! Because of all the comments, I reduced the salt to 1/2 teaspoon. I also did as someone suggested to dip the fish in egg (after seasoning with 4 tsp. seasoning) and then covering with bread crumbs. We loved the chopped green onions in this! This recipe is keeper for sure!
     
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Tweaks

  1. I found this to be VERY tasty!!! I sprayed the fish with Pam instead of using oil, and I had no dry mustard, so I put a thin layer of stone ground mustard on top of the fish, then mixed the seasonings (no salt or green onions and I used lemon pepper instead of regular pepper) with the breadcrumbs and dredged the fish~~It came out wonderful and I will surely make again!! Thank you for a great recipe~~~
     
  2. Delicious! I can't believe how flavorfull this was...and healthy. I am so pleased to have a "go-to" recipe for a quick week night dinner. I used cod instead of tilapia and I served it with steamed broccoli and wild rice. Absolutely yummy!
     
  3. excellent...was looking for something to do with mahi mahi instead of the usual frying....fixed it with hushpuppies & coleslaw. really enjoyed it!!
     
  4. Here is a replay of our kids dinner conversation tonight- " Is this fish, Mom?" " We don't want fish!" After their first bite- "Wow mom did you make this?" "This is really good" "Mmmm, This is realllllly good!" Even my 3 year old ate a whole fillet!!! Usually when making fish I can barely get any of my boys to take one bite.. This was seriously some good stuff. I even Oopsed a bunch and it still came out great.. I used 1 tsp. Prepared mustard because I did not have any dried, I used minced onion instead of onion powder (lack of), forgot to add the basil, skipped the italian seasoning because I was already using seasoned bread crumbs, totally spaced adding in the green onions, and after all those Oops' it still came out TERRIFIC.. I can't wait to try it again maybe this time I will use my brain and make sure to add ALL of the ingredients... :P
     
  5. Great! I used chopped fresh cilantro in place of the dried parsley in the breadcrumb mix just cause I had it and it needed to be used. I also had to do mine on the stovetop, as my oven decided not to work. Pan seared them and they turned out perfectly. My boyfriend told me it was the best white-flesh fish he ever had, and he is a chef. Thanks for a wonderful meal.
     

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