Gentle fish tilapia in different dishes

By its size, the fish tilapia is small, but its meat is very tender. By the way, it contains a very small fraction of fat. Often it is compared even with poultry meat.

It should be noted that the fish tilapia isdietary product, which is often used for cooking. Recipes can be very diverse. This fish is fried, it is made from cutlets, and even original casseroles.

Baked fish tilapia. The recipe is original

Excellent fish, if you bake it inoven with various spices. For such a dish you need to take half a kilogram of bodypaints, vegetable oil and spices (preferably various). As a condiment useful ginger, pepper (black and white), salt, sweet paprika, etc. You can choose to your taste.

First cut into small pieces of tilapia. After that, you should prepare a refueling. For this, 2 spoons of butter are mixed with all selected spices. Next, the fish should be put in a special form, pour the sauce and carefully, but gently mix. In this form, the dish is sent to the oven. Approximately 20 minutes, and the original fish is fed to the table.

Delicious cutlets

Most housewives ask the question of how to cook fish tilapia. For example, you can make piquant cutlets, which will become a dish for the festive table. Required:

• · Fish tilapia (about a kilogram);
• · Cheese (100 g);
• · Bulb;
• · The egg;
• · greenery;
• · Tomato paste (2 tablespoons);
• · Salt, spices and vegetable oil.

The fish is cut into pieces and ground with a blender,to make it look like mincemeat, only very fine grinding. In such a mass of grated cheese, greens (preferably parsley), egg and various spices are added. This time, too, you need to turn on the blender and mix everything.

Now that the stuffing is almost ready, tomato paste is added to it. And all - you can easily form cutlets. Then you can do 2 ways:

1. warm up the frying pan and alternately fry the resulting cutlets on it, turning them over.
2. Put the fish cutlets on a baking tray and bake in the oven.

Ready dish can be sprinkled with herbs. You can serve it with potatoes or tender rice.

Spicy fish tilapia

In spicy sauce, tilapia is especially delicious. To prepare such an original and unique festive dish take fish, salt and pepper, vinegar (mandatory rice, 2/3 cup), half a glass of soy sauce, as much dry wine, the same amount of maple syrup and 2 small spoons of olive oil.

Cooking is very simple and fast. All ingredients, except fish, are mixed in a saucepan and brought to a boil. Tilapia is lightly fried in a frying pan and placed on a baking tray or in a baking dish. On top of her water sauce, but not all. A little bit should be left. All this goes to the oven. Several times the baking sheet is pulled out to turn the fish and still pour the remaining dressing. As a result, the dish turns out, as if in a glaze!

Omelette with tilapia

From fish, too, you get an excellent casserole inomelette. Cooking it is very simple and you can even go quickly. It will take only 20-25 minutes. You need to take a kilogram of fish, 2 onions, a bucket of green peas, 100 g of hard cheese and a mixture of seasonings for fish. Also need 5 eggs, a glass of milk, 2 tablespoons of flour, salt and greens.

In the form of stacked first layer friedonions, pieces of fish, which are covered in special spices, only then peas. In a separate bowl, eggs, milk, flour and salt with herbs are thoroughly beaten. This mixture is poured the next layer onto the fish. Finally, in the end everything is sprinkled with grated cheese. So, the form gets to the oven, where it is baked to a beautiful crust.

Tilapia with cheese

Such a recipe will not only become a favorite, but alsonever hurt the figure. After all, tilapia is a very low-calorie product. For baking, you need to prepare 700 gr. fillets of this fish, 250 gr. cheese (tender and not hard), half a glass of sour cream, a pair of onions, vegetable oil, salt and a mixture of several peppers. You can also take dill greens.

The fish is salted and sprinkled with seasonings, and thenleave alone for a while, so that it soaks. The onion is cut in half rings and fried. In this form, he hits the bottom of the tray. On top of the laid out fish, which should be abundantly smeared with sour cream and sprinkled with chopped dill.

The pan is sent to the oven for 20 minutes, andwhile you can rub the cheese. Then the dish is taken out, sprinkled with cheese and again put in the oven. So cheese does not become a crust, but will be slightly melted and very pleasant to taste.

Dishes from tilapia are in fact very many. True, it is only to avoid one. This fish does not need to be cooked.