Baked Stuffed Tilapia
From notyourmomma 17 years ago
Ingredients
- 16 small to medium tilapia fillets, aim for the same size; you are making a tilapia sandwich with the stuffing. shopping list
- salt and pepper for sprinkling shopping list
- juice of three lemons, divided use shopping list
- 10 slices of white bread, toasted and cubed shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon of dry mustard shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon of dried dill weed shopping list
- 4 tablespoons of minced shallots shopping list
- 1 tablespoon of dry white vermouth shopping list
- 1 can of artichoke hearts, drained and chopped shopping list
- 1 cup of chicken broth more or less as needed shopping list
- 1 refrigerator can of crabmeat (cheapest, not fancy; you're mixing it in a stuffing here) drained shopping list
- 1 cup of butter, melted divided use shopping list
- 1 egg yolk shopping list
- 1/2 cup of heavy cream, whipped to soft peaks shopping list
- 1/8 teaspoon of salt shopping list
- 1/4 cup of parmesan cheese shopping list
- 1/4 cup of toasted bread crumbs shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- LIne a sheet pan with foil (you want something with sides here).
- Lightly grease the foil (I use my butter wrappers for this)
- Lay 8 of the tilapia fillets on the baking sheet.
- Sprinkle lightly with salt and pepper and a squeeze of lemon juice.
- In a large bowl, combine bread cubes, shallots dill, mustard, vermouth, artichokes and crabmeat.
- Add 1/2 cup of melted butter and enough chicken broth to moisten You want it to hold together and not fall apart here..
- Top each tilapia with a scoop of filling, flatten slightly.
- Top with remaining tilapia fillet (match up sizes if you can)
- Sprinkle with more salt and pepper and some more dill.
- Cover with foil tent. Bake in oven for 15 minutes.
- While fish is in oven, make glaze. Beat yolk and salt until foamy.
- Gradually add in 2 tablespoons of melted butter.
- Mix remaining butter with 2 teaspoons of lemon juice and add to the egg yolk mixture. Fold in the whipped cream.
- Pull stuffed fish out of oven, remove foil
- Turn oven to broil Spoon a generous spoon of glaze over each fish piece. Sprinkle with bread crumbs and parmesan cheese.
- Broil until golden brown and toasted.
- .“Fish, to taste right, must swim three times -in water, in butter, and in wine.”
- Polish proverb
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Great for Lent...and I love the proverb. You have wonderful recipes.
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