How To Cook Tilapia

Fish has one of the highest nutritional components for protein. It plays a huge part in helping to build your body especially those of small children who need the right amount of nutrients to grow up healthy. That is why fish diet is highly recommended.

Tilapia fish has a good balance of lean protein to fats that makes it easy for one to cook it. It also allows one to be able to use several seasoning options due to its mild flavor content. In addition to freshly grounded pepper, lemon juice that is freshly squeezed and kosher salt, tilapia will work well when it is paired with seasoning blends that are aggressive like Creole or Cajun seasoning. More to that It also blends easily with milder spices such as rosemary, thyme and dill.

Fried Tilapia with Veggies! =)

That said; you are probably wondering how to cook tilapia. Well, frying of the tilapia is a much simpler process on how to cook tilapia as It is constant and stays firm when one is deep frying it and it flakes too when its pan seared. In the pan method one can apply methods that include deep frying and pan seared method but the deep frying is the easiest to use. In the deep frying one needs ingredients like peanut oil, an egg white, tilapia fillets, one cup of flour and soda water and one table spoon of kosher salt and fresh grounded black pepper. The cooking process is much simple as is to fill oil in the deep fryer with the peanut oil and one is to mix together the flour, egg white, kosher salt, soda water and black pepper. One is to pat the fillets with paper fillets and then on is to dredge them in the flour and dip it in the batter to coat. One is to fry them for around three minutes.

Another method on how to cook tilapia is through baking it. Although baking has come to be one of the commonly used method for one to cook a tilapia effectively many people are not aware of the proper techniques and procedure on how to adequately bake a tilapia. The baking method of a tilapia is rather easy for one to apply and the main advantage of this is that the fish will have been cooked evenly on all the sides without turning it.

There are several ways for how to cook tilapia through baking, and one of them is baking the tilapia in olive oil and garlic. The ingredients needed are tilapia fillets, four cloves of garlic that is crushed, chopped onion, three table spoon of olive oil and a pitch of cayenne pepper. After washing the fillets one is to rub the fish with garlic and add olive oil to it and top it up with onion. One is to refrigerate for around six hour then one is to preheat the oven to 175 degrees and then place the fish in the baking dish. One is pour the marinade that remains on the fish and season it with white pepper and cayenne black pepper. One is then bake it for 30 minutes.