The little St. Joe's News Press in Missouri has an interesting story on tilapia, one of the nation's most popular fish. The piece outlines many of the reasons you will not find too many tilapia-specific recipes on this site: Tilapia is a chameleon of the seafood world.
You can sub in tilapia for any recipe you find on this site for a white fish, such as striped bass, Pacific rock cod, real cod, haddock, walleye, croakers, black seabass, etc, etc. Cheap to raise (and tilapia is entirely farm-raised in North America), tilapia's chief qualities are it's neutral (I say boring) flavor and its cost: Tilapia is typically the cheapest thing in the counter.
I do like tilapia fried in beer batter, however. And I have experimented with poaching it in olive oil, then serving it alongside a zippy salsa. Do you have any good tilapia recipes you'd like to share?
Photo copyright 2009 Hank Shaw.
Comments
The article on how to grill a whole fish was really helpful, In future though, it might be easier to print if all the sections could be printed at once instead of individually. But thanks for a wonderful article!!
Good point about printing. I will see if there is a way to do that and report back.
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Think of it as a ‘gateway fish’. Kids love boring and if parents can afford to buy tilapia – all the better!