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!

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.

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.

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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

This site has the most comprehensive collection of recipes you want handy when cooking the Tilapia Fish. If you have questions not covered in Quick and Easy Tilapia Fish Recipes please feel free to email your question to rakinism@gmail.com