Cilantro Tilapia
"I created this dish in my own kitchen when trying to come up with a tasteful, low-calorie dinner. It's delicious!"
photo by mailbelle
- Ready In:
- 17mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 (4 ounce) tilapia fillets, fresh
- 2 tablespoons garlic salt
- 2 tablespoons cajun seasoning
- black pepper, to taste
- 1 bunch cilantro
directions
- Preheat oven to 375.
- Coat the bottom of a baking dish with olive oil.
- Place the tilapia fillets in the pan.
- Sprinkle desired amount of garlic salt, cajun seasoning, and pepper over tilapia pieces.
- Press several sprigs of cilantro on top of each piece.
- Bake tilapia for 8 to 12 minutes.
- Enjoy alone or with lemon!
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Reviews
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Mollyjoy -- this was incredible. I "found" some tfrozen tilapia in the freezer and Googled "tilapia + cilantro" and found your recipe. It was such a hit! Had to tell you how much we enjoyed it. THANKS!! -
A nice way to bake tilapia for a change. The cilantro dried out a little once finished baking which didn't look too appetizing - next time I will add them midway through the baking time. Very light and healthy recipe. -
Was looking for a recipe to use some extra cilantro I had on hand. DH and I both enjoyed it. Thanks for posting!
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I'm eating my FIRST EVER attempt at any kind of fish. I chose this recipe because I like fish, I had never cooked it, and this seemed nice and easy! And it was! So quick to prepare, it literally took me a minute or so of prep time. The blend of spices is wonderful. Seeing as how I don't live close enough to the ocean to get fresh tilapia, the slightly-fresh frozen filets turned out great. I wrapped mine in foil-like a boat- and coated both sides of the fish with olive oil, leaving some oil in the bottom of each foil "boat." I put on my desired amount of spices, and added a dash of lemon juice and put it in the oven for about ten minutes. It turned out fabulous. Thanks for helping to make my first attempt at cooking fish a successful one! I will definitely be using this recipe again!
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OHH this was GREAT!! My daughter made me make it for her again immediately, b/c 2 pieces of fish was not enough, and then said she wanted it again for dinner tomorrow! We loved it!!!! Thanks
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Tweaks
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I really liked the spice. I only disliked how the garlic salt made the fish ridiculously salty. I would either reduce the amount of garlic salt or instead just use garlic powder. I will definitely make this again sometime. I might even use minced garlic instead of garlic salt . I cut the amount of olive oil down to one tablespoon to make the recipe a lot healthier. I not only coated the bottom with olive oil, I also coated the fish before putting on the spices.
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It is rare that I can buy Tilapia in my small town but it was on sale frozen and I snapped it up. We love Cilantro and it was lovely on the fish. I was liberal with the Cajun seasoning and used fine roasted garlic powder instead of garlic salt. I have more Tilapia in the freezer and just may do this recipe again - Thanks Mollyjoe for a new taste sensation
