Fish dishes are tasty and healthy. For example, tilapia is attractive for its culinary features and affordable price, it has a delicate taste with a minimum pronounced fish aroma. Combining tilapia with potatoes, you can cook many dishes, and without spending a lot of time and energy: the fish is quickly fried, during baking, boiling or stewing it does not fall apart.
Tilapia with potatoes - general principles
Any fish dish requires preliminary preparation of products, in particular cleaning fish. Problems with tilapia should not occur, the fish do not have hard scales, sharp fins and contain few bones. But most often it is sold in the form of a fillet, which means that you just need to defrost it.
Potatoes are simply peeled and cut according to the recipe. Since the fish cooks quickly, it is better to choose fast-prepared varieties of potatoes for the dish.
Next, additional ingredients, spices are selected. What can be added:
· All kinds of sauces: sour cream, lemon, mustard, cream-based, mayonnaise.
· Greens, herbs and spices.
· Vegetables: carrots, onions, tomatoes.
· Cheeses.
Recipe 1. Tilapia with potatoes, baked in foil
Ingredients:
· 5 layers of tilapia;
· 5 potatoes;
3 onions;
· 2 tomatoes;
Dutch cheese - 350 g;
Half a lemon;
60 g of mayonnaise;
· Spices for fish, salt - 50 g each;
· Sunflower oil - 50 ml;
· Parsley, dill - half a bouquet.
Cooking method:
1. Thaw the tilapia thoroughly, rinse under running water.
2. Cut the fish into small cubes.
3. Add mayonnaise to the fish, squeeze the juice of lemon, add salt, season, mix everything thoroughly and let it sit for half an hour.
4. Rinse the tomatoes, cut into cubes, chop the peeled onions with thin strips, and the potatoes into thin slices.
5. Take a deep frying form, wrap it completely with foil, make foil sides along the side walls, pressing it tightly to the edges.
6. Lubricate the foil with oil and spread the first layer of potatoes, salt.
7. Put the onions on the potatoes.
8. Put the tomatoes to the fish, slowly mix and place them in a third layer.
9. Sprinkle with cheese, pre-ground on a grater.
10. Place the mold in the oven hot, bake for 40 minutes at not very high temperature.
11. Serve hot, divided in small portions, sprinkle with dill and parsley.
Recipe 2. Tilapia with potatoes and spices
Ingredients:
· 3 layers of tilapia;
· 6 potatoes;
· 3 tomatoes;
Garlic - 5 cloves;
Thyme greens - 5 branches;
Olive oil - 70 ml;
40 g of cumin;
· Sea salt - 50 g;
Black pepper - 40 g;
A bunch of fresh basil.
Cooking method:
1. Peel the potatoes from the peel, chop in circles.
2. Tomatoes - slices, peeled garlic - plates.
3. Put in a baking dish, always greased with olive oil, first potatoes, sprinkle with pepper and salt.
4. Lay out the second layer of tomatoes, sprinkle with cumin a little and sprinkle lightly with oil, put 2 sprigs of thyme on top.
5. A third layer, spread the plate of garlic.
6. Rinse the tilapia layers, put in a deep cup, salt, pepper, sprinkle the remaining cumin and chopped thyme sprig, mix well.
7. Place the form with potatoes, tomatoes and garlic in the oven, preheated, bake for 30 minutes.
8. Open the oven, spread out the tilapia layers and bake for another 25 minutes.
9. In the finished form, put on a plate a plate of baked tilapia, next to potatoes with tomatoes, decorate everything with basil leaves.
Recipe 3. Tilapia with potatoes in milk
Ingredients:
· 3 potato tubers;
· 4 layers of tilapia;
· Bow - 3 heads;
· Milk - 100 ml;
Mayonnaise - 70 g;
250 g of any cheese;
· 6 branches of dill;
Any fat - 40 g;
· 40 g of salt and black pepper;
Parsley - 4 branches.
Cooking method:
1. Chopped peeled potatoes in circles.
2. Rinse, peel, chop and chop onion rings.
3. Grease a deep frying container and spread the potatoes.
4. Rinse the tilapia pulp and put on the potatoes.
5. Spread onion rings with a third layer.
6. Dill rinse, chop and sprinkle the entire contents of the container.
7. Top with mayonnaise to draw a grid.
8. Sprinkle with cheese and bake in the oven for 40 minutes.
9. After some time of baking, open the oven door, pour over milk and bake on the remaining time.
10. Arrange in portioned plates, garnish with parsley.
Recipe 4. Tilapia with potatoes in cheese and milk sauce
Ingredients:
· 6 layers of tilapia;
4 potatoes
1 onion;
· Frying oil - 5 large spoons.
For the sauce:
· Milk - 300 ml;
Eggs - 4 pcs.;
· 300 g of any cheese;
Black pepper, salt - 45 g each;
Dill - 1 bunch.
Cooking method:
1. First, prepare the sauce: in a clean container, beat the eggs with a whisk, pour in the milk and beat for a few more minutes. Add chopped dill (2 sprigs), cheese, grated in advance, mix thoroughly with a whisk.
2. Take a deep container, grease with oil and put the potatoes, previously peeled and cut into circles.
3. Rinse the tilapia, cut into a cube and put on potatoes, add salt and pepper.
4. Cut the peeled onion into rings and spread out in a third layer.
5. Pour the entire contents of the container with milk and cheese sauce, place in a hot oven in advance, and bake for 40 minutes at medium temperature.
6. Serve garnished with sprigs of dill.
Recipe 5. Tilapia with potatoes and mushrooms
Ingredients:
Tilapia - 800 g;
Champignons - 7 pcs.;
· Bow - 3 heads;
· 6 small potato tubers;
· Vegetable oil - 40 ml;
Hard cheese - 350 g;
· The floor of a bunch of different greens;
Half a lemon;
· 20 g of salt and black pepper;
· Basil, oregano, cilantro dry - 20 g each;
Mayonnaise - 50 g.
Cooking method:
1. Put a well-thawed tilapia in a deep cup, pour over lemon juice.
2. Sprinkle the fish with salt, pepper, basil, oregano, cilantro, cover with a towel and leave for a while to be fed.
3. Chopped peeled potatoes in circles.
4. Peeled and washed mushrooms cut into small cubes
5. Grind the peeled onion heads and pour into a pan in the oil, fry until slightly ruddy, add mushrooms and fry for another 10 minutes.
6. Cover the deep frying sheet with foil and lay the tilapia layers next to each other.
7. Top with fried mushrooms and onions.
8. Rinse dill with parsley, chop, pour into a small cup. Leave a few leaves of parsley and dill for decoration.
9. Pour the chopped cheese to the greens, put the mayonnaise, salt, and mix everything thoroughly.
10. Put the potatoes on the mushrooms, grease everything with cheese sauce.
11. Bake in a hot oven for 40 minutes at medium temperature.
12. Arrange on plates, garnish with dill and parsley.
Recipe 6. Tilapia with two in one potatoes
Ingredients:
Tilapia - 8 layers;
600 g of potatoes;
Carrot - 1 pc.;
1 egg
· Half a dessert spoon of red and black peppers;
· Salt - 40 g;
Thyme, basil, coriander - 15 g each;
Vegetable oil - 60 ml;
· 2 teaspoons of balsamic vinegar;
Sour cream - 150 g;
200 g of any cheese;
· Any greens - half a bouquet;
· Tomatoes - 2 pieces.
Cooking method:
1. Wash the potatoes with carrots and, without peeling, put them in a pot of water, salt and cook until soft.
2. Remove vegetables, allow to cool, peel, grate, mix in a deep cup.
3. Thawed layers of tilapia thoroughly rub with salt, red and black peppers, thyme, coriander, basil. If desired, you can take any other spices. Put the fish in a cup, pour in balsamic vinegar, mix, leave to saturate for half an hour under the lid.
4. Beat the egg in a small cup, add sour cream, salt, pepper, stir well and pour into the potatoes with carrots, mix to a homogeneous consistency.
5. Grease a deep container with oil, put a thin layer of vegetable side dish.
6. Lay out tilapia layers on the side dish and cover with the rest of the side dish.
7. Sprinkle with cheese, bake in a red-hot oven for half an hour.
8. Serve in plates, sprinkled with herbs, put slices of fresh tomato next to it.
Recipe 7. Tilapia with potatoes in a slow cooker
Ingredients:
· 4 layers of tilapia;
4 potatoes
Onion head;
· 3 small tomatoes;
· Any greens - 4 branches;
· 15 g of black pepper and salt;
· Seasoning for fish - 40 g;
Half a lemon;
· Sunflower oil - 20 ml;
· Low fat sour cream - 150 g;
Cooking method:
1. Thoroughly wash the washed tilapia with salt, black pepper, seasoning, put in a cup, add chopped dill, sprinkle with lemon juice, let it drink for several minutes.
2. Peel the potatoes into slices.
3. Cut the washed tomatoes into circles.
4. Chopped peeled onion with straws.
5. Grease the capacity of the multicooker with oil, put the products in this order: potatoes, fish, onions.
6. Grease everything with sour cream, arrange the circles of tomatoes, pour a small amount of filtered water, sprinkle with salt a little.
7. Set the machine to the "quenching" mode, time 35 minutes.
8. Put the stewed tilapia with potatoes on plates, garnish with parsley leaves.
Tilapia with potatoes - secrets and tricks
· Tilapia does not have a pronounced taste, so using spices you will need to be careful, it is important not to overdo it. Put a little of everything. The fish goes well with parsley, pepper (white, black, pink), ginger, lemon, garlic, coriander.
· You can pre-marinate tilapia for several minutes, for example, in a mixture of herbs and lemon juice.
· When baking tilapia with potatoes in the oven, you can dry the food, so it is advisable to use foil or a special sleeve for baking.
