LEMON GARLIC TILAPIA

 My first time cooking tilapia, and it turned out pretty good.  I've always had good luck finding recipes on allrecipes.com so I headed there to find a recipe for tilapia, and I was not disappointed.  The simplicity of this recipe is what drew me to it initially, just lemon, butter, garlic, parsley and the tilapia.  I increased the temp of the oven to 400 degrees and it was done in about 12 minutes.  Here is the recipe, hope you all enjoy :)


INGREDIENTS:

4 tilapia fillets
3 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
1 Tbsp butter, melted
1 clove garlic, finely chopped
1 tsp dried parsley flakes
pepper to taste


DIRECTIONS:

 Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Spray a baking dish with non-stick cooking spray. Rinse tilapia fillets under cool water, pat dry with paper towel. Place fillets in baking dish.

 Pour lemon juice over the fillets.

 Combine garlic and melted butter together, drizzle over fillets.

 Sprinkle with parsley and pepper (I don't like pepper, so I didn't add any).

 Bake in preheated oven until the fish is white and flakes when pulled apart with a fork, about *30 minutes.

*Since I increased the temp of the oven to 400 degrees, I only cooked the fish for about 12-15 minutes.


~Under the recipe reviews for Lemon Garlic Tilapia, I took some suggestions that MommyfromSeattle
made.  This is why I cooked the tilapia at 400 degrees, and I did increase the butter I used.  She suggested upping the butter to 3-4 Tbsp, but I only increased it up to 2 Tbsp and that turned out fine for me.

~I used more than 1 tsp of parsley, I thought it looked a little sparse so I used about 2 tsp.

~Needless to say, I'm still caught up with the Olympics, so I didn't cook anything else to go along with the tilapia.  But while I was eating the finished product, I kept thinking of how good it would pair with wild rice and some mixed veggies. In case you are looking for some ideas of what to pair it with.