Oven Baked Spiced Tilapia with Herb Tahini sauce & Tomato Salsa
Hi everyone! Who is excited for Thanksgiving this Thursday? Ill be spending it with family and I am in charge of all desserts which I am totally excited about 🙂
So, growing up I never enjoyed eating fish. The only seafood I would actually eat was shrimp but now I enjoy scallops, salmon, and TILAPIA! Tilapia is actually one of my favorites because it is what my mom’s choice of fish to cook for us for dinner. Now, I do the same for my husband and I. 🙂 This oven baked spiced tilapia with cilantro tahini sauce & tomato salsa is literally the ultimate dish. It is a tad spicy yet refreshing but also creamy from the sauce. I am positive you all will love it!
Servings: approx. 10 pieces
Time: 40 minutes
Ingredients
Fish
2 lb package of frozen tilapia (approx. 10 pieces of tilapia)
1 tbsp all spice
1 teaspoon citric acid
2 tablespoon of garlic powder
Salt & Pepper to taste
4 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp paprika
1 tbsp cumin
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- In a sprayed baking pan, place the tilapia in the pan. Combine everything else in a small bowl and mix together. Pour that mixture slowly over the tilapia making sure to coat the tilapia more than the pan itself.
- Bake in the preheated oven for about 25 minutes. I also sliced a zucchini and baked it with the fish as well just to get more veggies in to my dish. That is totally optional though.
- Squeeze some fresh lemon on top while fish is still warm and Enjoy!
Tomato Salsa
2 Roma tomatoes finely diced
1/2 a small red onion finely diced
1/4 cup finely chopped cilantro
1/4 teaspoon finely chopped jalapeno
1-2 tbsp olive oil
Salt & Pepper to taste
1 teaspoon sumac
2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
Instructions
- Place all the vegetable ingredients in a bowl and then add the olive oil, salt & pepper, sumac and lemon juice. Then mix all together.
Herb Tahini Sauce
Ingredients
1 cup of cilantro or parsley
1/4 a jalapeno for spice (optional)
1/2 a lemon’s juice
2 tbsp tahini
Salt & Pepper to taste
1/4 cup water to thin it out
Pinch of cumin
Pinch of red pepper flakes
Instructions
- Place all this in a Food processor and mix till smooth.
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