Cilantro-Chipotle Tilapia

1 Nov

Super easy and quick! (OK…most tilapia recipes are easy & quick, which is why I keep buying it…)

Serves 2.

Ingredients

2 tilapia filets
2 tb extra virgin olive oil
1 chipotle in adobo, diced (plus some of the sauce)
1 c cilantro leaves, chopped
1 tb water
1 ts cumin
1/2 ts each salt & pepper

Directions

1. Puree the chipotle, adobo sauce, cilantro, water, olive oil, cumin, salt and pepper. Adjust seasoning to taste. Add more liquid if it’s not thin enough.
2. Crank up the broiler, with the oven rack about 4 inches from the heat.
3. On a foil-lined pan, pour half of the marinade over the tilapia. Flip the fish over carefully and pour the rest of the marinade.
4. Broil six to nine minutes, depending on the thickness of the filets. (You’re better to go shorter than longer in this case. Overcooked fish…yuck.)
5. Serve with Tropical Salad and rice.

Side note: the tilapia goes beautifully with coconut rice with a little cilantro stirred in at the end of the cooking process.

Advertisement

One Response to “Cilantro-Chipotle Tilapia”

  1. Andrew C February 20, 2011 at 4:59 pm #

    This is super yummy. Great easy recipe.
    I just tried it today and made a couple of modifications: pan seared vs broiled (got a bit of crispiness on the outside this way, and it cooked pretty quick). I also added an equal part of lime juice to the adobo sauce which added some zest and cooled down the spicy chipoltes a bit. Served it with lime wedges
    mmmmmmm!

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this: