Quick and Easy Tilapia Recipes | Crab Meat Stuffed Tilapia

You will definitely love this tilapia recipe if you give this a shot. The crab can be substituted with shrimp. And if you like the stuffing extra ‘bready’, then you can double the amount of bread crumbs in the stuffing mixture of this tilapia recipes, but don’t think this works only on tilapia recipes as this also works on other fish recipes, can be substituted with flounder, catfish, cod, sea bass or trout, I prefer tilapia though and extra crab instead of bread, so you can say I like it crabby.

This tilapia recipes’ versatility doesn’t end there though, you can even sprinkle little shredded Parmesan cheese on top to give it a little crunch and texture.


INGREDIENTS
1 small onion
1 rib celery
4 tablespoons of butter
1/4 cup of fresh parsley
1/2 cup of bread crumbs
1 can of drained and flaked crab meat
1 tablespoon of lemon juice
1/8 tablespoon of cayenne pepper
6 tilapia fillets
Melted butter
Paprika powder

DIRECTIONS
Chop the onion into fine pieces. Mince the celery into fine pieces. Sautee the onion and celery with butter in a frying pan until the vegetables are tender. Add parsley to the frying pan. Remove the frying pan from the heat and stir in bread crumbs and crab meat, together with lemon juice and cayenne pepper.

Grease a 9x13 inch oven pan.

Spread the crab meat mixture over the Tilapia fillets and roll them up. Place the stuffed Tilapia in the greased dish, seam side down.

Sprinkle melted butter and paprika powder over the stuffed Tilapia. Place the stuffed Tilapia in the oven and bake the rolls at 400° Fahrenheit. The stuffed Tilapia is finished when it is easy to flake the fish with a fork, usually after 20-25 minutes.

Tilapia Recipes | Cooking Techniques

Cooking Techniques in Tilapia Recipes

Tilapia Recipes at it’s best. I have been posting Tilapia Recipes and there already is quite a number of them already. But I will be adding more tilapia recipes as this site grows. I want to make it the biggest Tilapia Recipes Site on the net. So far this site has a few tilapia recipes you can find on the right, there’s the recipe for a tilapia in lemon garlic, or the tilapia in parmesan cheese, and a few others I categorized as grilled or baked.

I noticed that most tilapia recipes I encounter are either baked or grilled so I might have to modify the tilapia recipes table of contents sometime in the future, but as the number aren’t that great as of the moment then it stays like that for the meantime.

I have been looking around different tilapia recipes websites and one can go nuts actually by the sheer number of them out there. One actually would never run out of tilapia recipes one could learn to cook So this site is not only going to focus on a ‘dry list’ of tilapia recipes but which ones are best or talk about what really is different with that particular tilapia recipes I will be featuring on this tilapia recipes site.

As I’ve mentioned a while ago most of the tilapia recipes I encounter are either baked or grilled, but in my search for other types of recipes I learned that aside from baking or grilling (which are most prevalent), but there’s also barbecuing, blackening, broiling, bronzing, microwave baking, oven steaming, poaching in different stuff like milk or water, pan frying, deep frying among others.

I don’t know if I missed anything else, but that list alone of processes you can employ in your tilapia recipes you can see that the possibilities are endless.

Let me talk about each of these cooking techniques.

Baking, this is the process of cooking fish at certain temperatures in an oven. An usually the fish is placed in a greased baking pan and the usual temperature for cooking your tilapia fish recipe is to preheat the oven at 230 degrees Celsius of 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

There are certain guidelines in baking a fish no matter what fish it is, and It just so happen that this site focuses on tilapia fish recipe, but the guidelines applies to almost all fish recipes. Make sure you are baking fresh or thawed fish. I heard somewhere, and this might end up in the tips section that it is best to thaw the tilapia fish in a bowl of milk.

Next is barbecuing, this is the process of cooking fish over coals or open flame, and as always in barbecues, it is best that the fish is marinated. It is actually very easy to find a tilapia recipe in here that has the ingredients for marinate.

Blackening is the process of coating a fish in some sort of mixture of spices and thickening agent and cooking the fish in high heat to blacken the coating but not burn it. I haven’t cooked such tilapia recipe thus far, but I imagine it probably would taste very similar to barbecued, as it can’t be helped, as barbecuing will burn some part of the fish.

A tilapia recipes that employ broiling means that the fish is cooked in an open flame or some sort of electric element at high temperatures.

Bronzing on the other hand is very similar to Blackening, but the fish is cooked in low fire, and it is the spices, like in blackening, that actually gets bronzed or blacked. They can be cooked in pans or grill to achieve the bronze or black of the tilapia recipe.

Microwave baking on the other hand is very similar to baking a tilapia fish only that this is done internally instead of externally. Microwaving makes the fish hot and only the fish.

Steaming is my favorite in tilapia recipes, I can still remember my mom cooking a steamed tilapia fish and I can still remember how it tasted like. She wrapped it in foil with spices and steamed it over boiling water. It was delicious! This can also be done on an oven, but not on a microwave because of the aluminum foil.

Poaching is simply boiling the fish, and to spice up the fish wrap it in foil with spices and boil in boiling water.

Pan frying as the name suggest is a tilapia recipe where you just fry the fish in a pan and deep frying is frying the fish from tons of cooking oil where the fish is totally submerged in cooking oil.

These are the usual ways of coking fish and you will always find them in any tilapia recipes. I specially love the steaming bit a lot as this process of cooking brings out the flavor of the fish and doesn’t dry the fish and all flavors are kept intact. And I have a fond memory of this particular tilapia recipes because my mom specifically made it form me when I was younger.

Tilapia Fish Recipes | Coconut Tilapia with Apricot Dipping Sauce

Here is a another Tilapia Fish Recipes that should fall under either the Baked Tilapia Fish Recipes or the Fried Tilapia Fish Recipes category on the left, but for the meantime, I will leave it as it is, as most of the recipes I find is either baked or fried. But what caught my attention to this specific Tilapia Fish Recipe is the use of Coconut in the ingredients. I grew up with a coconut tree next to our house. That’s why. And I was wondering what the apricot was doing in this recipe, because I only know apricot from this facial wash I’m using called apricot scrub, so I got curious what this apricot has to do with this tilapia fish recipes.

Without further ado, I present you…


Coconut Tilapia with Apricot Dipping Sauce

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 cup flaked coconut, finely chopped
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 1 tablespoon Creole seasoning
• 4 (4 ounce) fillets tilapia
• 1/2 cup cornstarch
• 1 (4 ounce) carton egg substitute
• 1/2 cup canola oil

Apricot Dipping Sauce

• 1/2 cup apricot jam
• 2 teaspoons brown mustard
• 1 teaspoon prepared horseradish

DIRECTIONS:

1. Toss the tilapia fish fillets with the cornstarch in a bowl and shake of the excess then dip the fillets in the egg substitute that is in a different bowl. Next is to coat the fillets in the mixture of coconut, flour and creole.
   
   
2. Heat canola oil in a frying pan to a temperature of about 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Fry fillets one or two at a time on both sides until golden brown. (Baking the tilapia fish also works.)
   
   
3. Remove to drain on a paper towel. Prepare the apricot dipping sauce by stirring together the jam, mustard, and horseradish in a small bowl. Serve the tilapia accompanied by the dipping sauce.

Enjoy!

Tilapia Fish Recipes| Basic Grilled Tilapia Fish

The Most Basic Recipe there is for the Tilapia Fish

Here is another Grilled Tilapia Fish Recipe, and there is not much difference between this and the Grilled Tilapia Fish Recipe with Mango Salsa I posted sometime ago. This just means that you can modify any of these recipes to fit your taste and you can name them what you want.

You can take ideas from already existing grilled tilapia fish recipes and let your imagination roll and let your taste buds decide. One such grilled tilapia recipe below could use some ‘enhancement’.

INGREDIENTS:

• 4 fresh tilapia fillets
• 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
• 1/3 cup white wine
• Juice of one fresh lemon
• 2 tablespoon butter
• 1 clove garlic finely chopped
• 1/2 cup onion finely chopped
• 1/2 cup green bell pepper finely chopped
• 1/2 cup orange bell pepper finely chopped
• 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper

DIRECTIONS:

1. Mix olive oil, wine and lemon juice in a baking dish then marinate tilapia for 1 hour.
2. In a small pan melt butter and sauté peppers, onions and garlic but do not over cook.
3. Put fish on a well sprayed grill.
4. Carefully brush on some of the marinade on the fish and sprinkle with half of the crushed pepper.
5. Flip fish and repeat.
6. Add the sautéed veggies to the top of fish and serve.

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Tilapia Fish Recipes | Grilling the Tilapia Fish

Simple, Easy and Fast : How to Grill a Tilapia Fish

Grilled Tilapia is a very simple recipe and probably one of the earliest known way of cooking tilapia fish or any other fish for that matter. It is said of course that grilling tilapia fish came from Africa since the tilapia fish itself originated in Africa.

Grilling tilapia fish is one of the fastest and easiest fish recipe there is, it cooks the fish without removing the moisture. But there is the question of course of how to grill the tilapia fish right (or any fish for that matter). Though it is easy to grill a fish, there are some points to remember to make sure that grilling is done right. First off is don’t put to much pressure on yourself when cooking the fish as with other activities, pressure could mess things up. Lighten up. This one’s easy. Second is to make sure that the fish don’t stick to surface of where you are grilling your tilapia fish. One way to avoid the fish from sticking to the cooking surface is to apply a little oil on the fish or the grilling surface you are working with.

Since grilling tilapia fish is so easy and quick, this makes for a perfect after work meal or in situations where you need something served real fast as in parties where you do not know how much people are attending or what time they are arriving.

The tricky part of grilling is figuring out when the tilapia fish is done. You can take a fork and the meat of the tilapia fish should flake easily and appear opaque all the way through. You don’t want to serve half cooked fish so make sure that it’s opaque and not translucent or glossy.

And there is the matter of the possibility of grilling the tilapia fish unevenly, because the other half is cooking and the top par not exposed to direct heat is also getting cooked. In this case you can stuff the fish with lemon slices to rake some of the heat off from the other side and this also adds flavor to the grilled fish.

And for effect, I really love doing this when I’m making this grilled tilapia fish recipe is to drip lemon juice over the grilling fish and hear the sizzling sound from the grilling fish, it makes me appreciate the meal a bit more. Enjoy!


Grilled Tilapia Fish Recipes:

1. Basic Grilled Tilapia Fish Recipe Recipe
   
2. Grilled Tilapia Fish with Mango Salsa Recipe

A Little Detour From Our Regular Tilapia Fish Recipes Programming

Let's talk about something else but related to Tilapia Fish Recipes

After posting a series of tilapia fish recipes, I thought of talking a bit about how I came up with the idea and the desire to put up a tilapia fish recipe site. This will not mean I won’t be posting any more recipes, I’m just taking a bit of a break from posting pure recipes and from time to time post and talk about something else that relates to tilapia fish, cooking, cooking methods, like baking, frying, grilling, steaming – and it seems that baking is the most popular among the recipes I already posted. So I might have to modify the links at the right side at (The “Tilapia Fish Recipes Contents”) some point to compensate for the would be growing number of recipes that will be available in this site.

There would be a lot of it.

I grew up near the salty rivers and seafood like crabs and wild prawns had always been part of my diet and I came to like them and they became my favorite, I will have them whenever I can. I don’t live near the sea, so these are mostly cultured seafoods. But I’m not here to talk about crabs and prawns but fish.

I really haven’t had any other types of fish save for the milkfish and the tilapia fish and maybe a few others on occasions and the only time I’ve, as far as I can remember, of having tuna or salmon is by getting them from cans.

The reason for this is that they are hard to come by, and milkfish and the Tilapia fish are readily available. And I can’t just always fry them with cooking oil, so I got a few recipes for the tilapia fish but one cannot really have them all the time and with the same exact style of cooking. The taste buds needs a bit of variety. And because of this I experimented a lot on tilapia fish cooking, giving recipes I stumble upon a try and modifying them every time I cook the same recipe for variety.

These Tilapia fish recipes do not only apply to the tilapia fish of course, you can always change the fish with a fish of your choice and see what and have a taste of what you come up with. But I prefer the tilapia for various reasons already stated in my other tilapia fish recipes post. Abut mainly, my reason for sticking with the tilapia fish is because they are readily available and very affordable.

Thinking about this made me remember the fist few times I caught tilapia fish using a fishing pole when was a kid. I thoroughly enjoyed those times and enjoyed the fish, I don’t know, it probably is because they were my catch. And I distinctively remember this one time I caught like one tilapia fish probably weighing close to a kilo.

Being young, I didn’t know what to do with it and just let my mom do the cooking. And She just fried the tilapia fish, apparently, she too didn’t know any recipe for the fish, well maybe the default stew recipe. But she cooked the tilapia by frying it and matched it with salted tomatoes. It was a simple yet tasty basic recipe.

Quick and Easy Tilapia Fish Recipes | Fish Buying Tips

(General Buying Tips that applies NOT only for the Tilapia Fish but other Fish as well)

Smell it!

The phrase “Smells fishy” is actually to connote something that is not good and that is probably because whoever came up with that phrase probably only bought fish “late in the afternoon” when they are no longer fresh, but most of the fish you will purchase would most probably come frozen. Fresh fish smells ‘sweet’, it should smell a bit different but without the strong ‘fishy’ smell that means the fish is past its prime.

Fresh fish shouldn’t smell bad.

Look at it!

If it looks like fresh out of the water, firm flesh and bright eyes and red gills are signs of freshness. The eyes of the fish are the easiest indicators of freshness, if it’s bloodshot, like say in tilapia fish or milk fish, then it might be a better idea to move along. Fillets should look bright without discoloration.

Freeze it!

Fish meat is very perishable and if you are going to freeze it for more than 2 days it should be wrapped well in freezer paper. Only thaw the fish when you are going to cook it, thawing and re-freezing is not a good idea.

Lemon Garlic Tilapia Fish Recipes

A Tilapia Fish Recipes on Lemon Garlic

Marinating the tilapia fish in this recipes should take exactly 5 minutes and cooking time is 5 to 10 minutes which makes this tilapia fish recipes a fairly quick cook.

INGEDIENTS:

• 2 tilapia fillets
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• Cajun spice to taste

MARINADE:

• 1 tbsp olive oil
• Juice of ½ a lemon
• 1 clove of garlic, minced
• ¼ cup chopped fresh cilantro

GARNISH:

• chopped cilantro or parsley

DIRECTIONS:

1. Mix the marinade ingredients in a small bowl. Dip the tilapia fish fillets, coat and allow to marinate not longer than 5 minutes.
   
   
2. Pre-heat a nonstick fry for about 2 to 3 minutes or until its hot and add oil and swirl to cover the surface of the pan then add the fish fillets. Lower the heat to medium high and sprinkle the spice to taste and let cook for five minutes or so and turn the fish over and cook the other side until the tilapia fish meat is white in color.
   
   
3. Garnish with cilantro or parsley and additional Cajun spice if you like it hot (or not if you just like a little kick) and serve.
   
   
4. Add the garnish. And feel free to make a few modifications to suit your taste.

Broiled Tilapia Fish in Creamy Parmesan Cheese

Preparation for this awesome tilapia fish recipes should take about 15 minutes in which 5 minutes is used for preparing and cooking time of 10 minutes.

INGREDIENTS

• 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
• 1/4 cup butter, softened
• 3 tablespoons mayonnaise
• 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• 1/4 teaspoon dried basil
• 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1/8 teaspoon onion powder
• 1/8 teaspoon celery salt
• 2 pounds tilapia fillets

DIRECTIONS

1. Grease a broiling pan or line pan with aluminum foil and preheat your oven's broiler.
   
   
2. Sprinkle the celery salt, pepper, dried basil leaves and onion powder into bowl of mixed parmesan cheese, butter, mayonnaise and lemon juice and set aside.
   
   
3. Arrange the tilapia fish fillets in a single layer on the greased broiling pan and broil the fish for 2 to 3 minutes a few inches away from the heat. Flip the fillets and then do the other side for two more minutes.
   
   
4. Remove the broiled tilapia fish from the oven and cover the top side with the parmesan cheese mixture. And broil for 2 more minutes until the mixture on top of the tilapia fish fillets is browned and the fish flakes easily with a fork. Be mindful of the cooking time as you do not want the tilapia fish over cooked.

A few notes before wrapping up. This recipe can easily be modified to fit your taste. Like you can use celery seeds in place of celery salt or add 1/2 tsp. paprika, 1/4 tsp. garlic powder and 1/4 tsp. crushed red pepper flakes and forgo the lemon juice. You can also add bread crumbs to thicken the mix. And a lot of people using this recipe found seasoning it with a bit of Old Bay seasoning really adds to the flavor as well.

Tilapia Fish Recipes Quick Tip No.1 | Remove the Muddy Taste

Common with fish that includes vegetation in their diet, the tilapia fish has a somewhat muddy taste, though I myself have never encountered this muddy taste or i might have grown accustomed to it and probably is the very same flavor that i liked about the tilapia fish but i know others prefers the fish without this flavor.

So if you found this flavor not your liking then to counter act this muddy taste, a 15-20 minute marinating in buttermilk should sip out the unwanted taste out of the fish before going through your tilapia fish recipes.

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Quick and Easy Recipes | Grilled Tilapia with Mango Salsa

This has got to be one of the best Tilapia Fish Recipes i came across with. Not only does it taste good, it looks good too!

Preparations should take about 45 minutes, 1 hour for marinating the tilapia fish, and about 10 minutes cooking the fish. All in all, this tilapia fish recipes should be ready in about an hour and 55 minutes.

INGREDIENTS:

• 1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon minced fresh parsley
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 1 teaspoon dried basil
• 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 (6 ounce) tilapia fillets

• 1 large ripe mango, peeled, pitted and diced
• 1/2 red bell pepper, diced
• 2 tablespoons minced red onion
• 1 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro
• 1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and minced
• 2 tablespoons lime juice
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• salt and pepper to taste
  
  

DIRECTIONS:

1. Mix together the extra-virgin olive oil, the lemon juice, parsley, garlic, basil, pepper, and salt in a bowl and pour into the tilapia fish fillets in a resealable plastic bag. squeeze out the air from the bag and marinate for 1 hour in the refigirator.
   
   
2. Prepare the mango salsa by combining the mango, red bell pepper, red onion, cilantro, and jalapeno pepper in a bowl. Add the lime juice and 1 tablespoon of lemon juice, and toss well. Season to taste with salt and pepper, and refrigerate until ready to serve.
   
   
3. Remove the tilapia from the marinade and grill the fillets until the fish is no longer translucent in the center and flakes easily with a fork, 3 to 4 minutes per side, depending on the thickness of the fillets. Serve the tilapia topped with mango salsa. Enjoy!

Quick and Easy Recipes | Baked Tilapia Fish

This recipe is not only for making baked tilapia but can also be used to prepare any type of mild flavored and firm fleshed white fish fillets.

Total preparation time for this very affordable dish is 40 minutes, of which 20 minutes is used for baking the tilapia in the oven. This specific recipe needs 4 ounces of tilapia fish fillets and is enough to serve 4 servings.

INGREDIENTS:

• 4 (4 ounce) tilapia fillets
• ¾ cup of olive oil, preferably extra virgin olive oil
• ¼ teaspoon of salt
• 1/8 teaspoon of grounded black pepper
• ½ teaspoon of dried oregano
• 1 teaspon of garlic powder
• 4 tablespoons of tomato paste
• 1 green bell pepper
• 1 onion (large)
• 4 tablespoons of butter

DIRECTIONS:

1. Pre-heat the oven to 175° C / 350° F.
   
   
2. Coat the bottom of a medium sized baking dish with about ¼ cup of olive oil.
   
   
3. Mix the rest of the olive oil with salt, pepper, oregano, garlic and tomato paste into a small bowl
   
   
4. With the skin side up, place the tilapia fish fillet in the baking dish.
   
   
5. Pour the olive oil with salt, pepper, oregano, garlic and tomato paste mixture into the bowl of tilapia fish fillets and spread the mix with spatula.
   
   
6. Place the green bell pepper and the onion slices around the tilapia fillets
   
   
7. Place the baking dish in the oven and bake for 15 minutes. The baked tilapia is finished when you can easily flake it using a fork.
   
   
8. Remove the baked tilapia from the oven and place 1 tablespoon of butter on top of each fillet.

Quick and Easy Recipes | Tilapia Fish Stew

This one is an easy dish to make with fantastic taste with only a few ingredients. The clam juice is what gives this recipe the tasty results. Easy to prepare and works best with Tilapia Fish, I’m pretty sure you will find this absolutely delicious!

INGREDIENTS:

• 6 Tbsp olive oil
• 1 cup of chopped onions
• 2 large garlic cloves, chopped
• 2/3 cup fresh parsley, chopped
• 1 cup of fresh chopped tomato (about 1 medium sized tomato)
• 2 tsp of tomato paste.
• 8 oz of clam juice
• 2/3 cup dry white wine
• 1 1/2 lb Tilapia Fish fillets cut into 2-inch pieces
• Touch of dry oregano, Tabasco, thyme, pepper
• Salt

DIRECTIONS:

1. Heat olive oil in heavy large pot over medium-high heat. Add chopped onion and garlic and sauté for 4 minutes and you can also add some celery and mushroom at this point fo added flavor. Add parsley and stir for 2 minutes. Add tomato and tomato paste and let cook for 2 minutes longer.
   
   
2. Add clam juice, dry white wine, and fish and simmer until the Tilapia fish is cooked through, that should be less than 10 minutes. Add seasoning. Salt to taste. Ladle into bowls and serve.
   

There Are No Tilapia Fish Recipes Without It

Any baked, grilled, fried, smoked, steamed, stewed, stuffed, glazed, broiled or what have you recipe there is, it ain't a Tilapia Fish Recipes if it has no Tilapia in it.

Now let's get to know our fish.

Tilapia were originally found in Africa but today can be found to inhabit different fresh water habitats like streams, ponds, rivers and lakes around the world. They are tropical fish and can only stand temperatures abouve 55*F.

Some interesting and trivial facts about the fish that they rear their young on their mouths until they have grown enough to fend for themselves, The tilapia also, at some time, were released into the Kenyan waters to feed on mosquito larva to address malaria epidemic. They also played a role in the World War II as prime protein source for the poor. And one of it’s species, the Nile Tilapia also known as St. Peter Fish is also speculated to be the fish Jesus multiplied and fed to the masses at the Sermon on the Mount as the fish is native to the sea of Galilee.

Their appetite, quick growth and breeding, characteristics made the Tilapia the third only to carps and salmonids in the importance in aquaculture.

Tilapia farming has been around a couple and hal thousand years and it is said that farming the fist started in Israel. In 2002 tilapia production went up to 1,505,804 tons and today Taiwan is the largest exporter of Tilapia and the US and Japan being the largest consumers.

The comercial culture of tilapia is almost exclusive these 3 species:

Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis nilotica)
Of the three tilapia species that has the potential for aquaculture, the Nile Tilapia is the most comonly used species in tilapia in fish farming.



Blue Tilapia (Oreochromis aurea)
More at home in salty waters and lower temperatures, the blue tilapia is the next most cultured tilapia specie.



Black Tilapia or Java tilapia. (Oreochromis mossambica)
Very much like the Blue Tilapia in their spawning age and toleracen in salty water, their males grow faster than the other two mentions species.

Welcome to Quick and Easy Tilapia Fish Recipes

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