Best 4 Leslies Golden Tilapia Recipes

GOLDEN TILAPIA

Steps:

• Simmer in a saucepan over medium heat the sugar, soy sauce, water, lemon zest and lemon juice.
• Add the ginger, garlic, and pepper and cook until the sauce is reduced by half.
• Allow the sauce to cool and then marinade the fillets in 1/2 of the sauce for 20 minutes in the refrigerator. Reserve the remaining sauce.
• Remove fillets from the marinade. Season with salt and pepper if desired.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Heat skillet to medium high. Add oil to skillet and saute the fillets for about two minutes on each side until golden brown.
• Reheat the reserved sauce.
• Place fillets on baking dish or cookie sheet and finish in oven for 5-7 minutes or until done.
• Serve with reserved sauce.

TILAPIA FETA FLORENTINE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat; cook and stir onion and garlic in the hot oil until onion is soft, about 5 minutes. Add spinach to skillet; cook and stir until spinach is wilted and cooked down, 5 more minutes. Stir olives, feta cheese, lemon rind, salt, oregano, and white pepper into spinach. Cook until feta cheese has melted and flavors have blended, about 5 more minutes.
• Spread spinach mixture into a 9x13-inch baking dish. Arrange tilapia fillets over spinach mixture. Mix butter and lemon juice in a small bowl and drizzle over fish; sprinkle with paprika.
• Bake fish in the preheated oven until the flesh is opaque and flakes easily, 20 to 25 minutes.

NADINE'S DELICIOUS TILAPIA

Steps:

• Beat the egg and soy sauce together in a bowl.
• Gently press the tilapia pieces into the flour to coat; shake off the excess flour. Dip each flour-coated piece into the beaten egg mixture and then press into bread crumbs. Gently toss between your hands so any bread crumbs that haven't stuck can fall away. Place the breaded tilapia onto a plate while breading the rest; do not stack.
• Heat the vegetable oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Cook the breaded tilapia in the vegetable oil until golden brown, about 5 minutes per side.

TILAPIA WITH GARLIC AND LEMON

Steps:

• Pour marinade over all remaining ingredients in resealable plastic bag. Seal bag; turn to evenly coat ingredients with marinade. Refrigerate 30 min. to marinate. Remove ingredients from marinade; discard bag and marinade.
• Preheat grill to medium-high heat. Place 1 fish fillet in center of each of four 18x12-inch sheets of heavy-duty foil; top with one-fourth of the vegetable mixture. Bring up foil sides. Double fold top and ends to seal each packet, leaving room for heat circulation inside.
• Grill 10 min. or until fish flakes easily with fork. Cut slits in foil with sharp knife to release steam before opening each packet. Remove fish and vegetables from each packet to serving plate; drizzle evenly with the reserved liquid from bottom of packet.