Tilapia is a freshwater fish with few bones in its fillet. This is what she liked the chefs and gourmets of fish food. It is also popular for not having fat. This lean fish is suitable for diet and low-calorie diets. At the same time, its composition contains all the nutrients inherent in fish pulp.
Tilapia hails from African countries and generally does not reach the middle zone of Russia. We see it already in the form of a fillet and we don’t have to deal with it. In the selection below the recipes, tilapia is baked with various types of cheese in the form of casseroles, roll, steak or batter.
Tilapia with cheese - general principles of preparation
Before cooking, fish must be cleaned and washed. Do the same with the fillet - remove the remaining bones and rinse the pulp. But, be sure to dry the fish - with a napkin or paper towel. It is advisable to remove excess water from the pulp, otherwise it will prevent the fish from softening during pickling or cooking.
For the preparation of tilapia, absolutely any cheese is suitable, except for sweetish varieties. Avoid Bree, Mozzarella, Gouda, Edam. Cheeses such as: Ricotta, Russian, Tilsiter and other sour, salty or island-like cheeses taste great.
Tilapia for dishes is used in whole fillets, in the form of minced meat or chopped pieces.
Tilapia with cheese - casserole
Ingredients:
A pound of tilapia;
· One onion;
One tomato;
300 g of pasta or pasta;
60 g of butter;
· A bunch of fresh spicy greens;
· 4-5 Art. l sour cream;
50 g of hard cheese;
· Salt.
Cooking Method:
1. Throw pasta into a pot of boiling water and cook until almost done. Then transfer to a sieve or colander to drain the broth. You don't have to rinse pasta to make casseroles, but you can do it.
2. Further process onions, tomatoes and herbs. Clean, rinse and chop. Cutting - a small cube. Chop greens.
3. Remove the tilapia fillet from the skin and remove the bones, if any. Then wash the fish and dry with a special towel. Cut into small pieces.
4. Place soft butter in a baking pan and grease the inside of it. Lay the pieces of fish at the bottom. Then lay the onion and tomato. Sprinkle with salt. Put the pasta and pour the liquid sour cream. Sprinkle with herbs and grate over cheese on a grater.
5. Send to a hot oven at a temperature not exceeding 200 ° C for half an hour. Then reduce the heating to 170-180˚С and bake the dish for another quarter of an hour.
Tilapia with cheese in pastry
Ingredients:
· 500 g (two sheets) of puff pastry;
½ lemon (or orange);
3-4 tilapia fillets;
· 100 g curd cheese (not sweet);
A bunch of onion greens;
5-6 Art. l cream;
1 sweet pepper
· 2 tbsp. l lean butter;
· One egg (for greasing the dough);
· Salt.
Cooking Method:
1. First lay out to thaw the dough. Do it in advance. Take quick-frozen yeast or yeast-free dough.
2. Peel the tilapia fillet and rinse. Dry and put in a bowl.
3. Squeeze the juice of lemon, pour them fish and salt. Add one tbsp. l vegetable oil. Rub the pulp a little with your hands to marinate it evenly.
4. Then make a side dish. Rinse the green onion feathers and chop finely. Pepper and rinse too - cut into small cubes. Combine onions, peppers, cream and curd cheese.
5. Roll out the dough sheets and cut into squares according to the number of servings.
6. Next to the middle of each square lay out a filet. If you have taken wide, then cut them into fish pieces. Put cheese and vegetable filling on top. Now collect each square on top like a bag. Leave a small hole on top for steam to escape.
7. Grease a baking sheet with oil and lay out bags with fish stuffing. Beat the egg a little and grease the dough on all sides.
8. Place the pan in the oven at 180 ° C for an hour.
Tilapia with cheese and grits in the form of roll
Ingredients:
· 80 g of millet groats;
500 g of fish;
· 2 chicken eggs;
100 g champignons;
Onion head;
100 g of hard cheese;
· 2 tbsp. l vegetable oil;
· Spices and salt.
Cooking Method:
1. Rinse the millet in cold water, boil until tender and drain the broth.
2. Clean and rinse tilapia under running water. If a whole fish is taken, be sure that there are no seeds left when removing the fillet from the spine. Wipe the messengers of the fish with paper towels. Roll the clean fillet on the minced fish.
3. Peel and rinse the onion. Also pass it through the same meat grinder.
4. Stir the minced meat, onion. Add salt and spices, as well as one egg. Stir the minced meat thoroughly until you get a homogeneous structure.
5. Peel the champignons if necessary and rinse. Cut into small cubes and simmer in vegetable oil, and then fry in a pan.
6. Take a plastic bag and spread on a clean table. Distribute the minced meat in a rectangle into a bag. Put boiled millet on it evenly. Sprinkle with fried mushrooms and grate over cheese on a grater. You have a multilayer rectangle. Now grab one side of the bag and lift. At the same time, spin the products into a roll and disconnect them from the bag itself.
7. In the end, you will get a fish roll stuffed with.
8. Lubricate a small baking sheet with oil and carefully place the roll in it. Use the same package.
9. Now pierce the roll with a fork in several places and grease with a slightly beaten egg.
10. Bake the roll at 180 ° C for about an hour. For its preparation, you can use foil. Then put it in a baking sheet, and roll the roll in foil before baking.
Tilapia with steak cheese
Ingredients:
2-3 tilapia fillets;
· 2 tbsp. l soy sauce;
· 2 tbsp. l olive oil;
1 tsp mustard canteen or Dijon;
A bunch of spicy greens;
100 g of cherry tomatoes;
4-5 olives;
· 100 g soft or hard cheese.
Cooking Method:
1. Pure tilapia fillets are suitable for this recipe. Rinse them in running water and pat dry with paper towels.
2. In a bowl, mix soy sauce, olive oil and table mustard (you can also take home-made mustard). Transfer the fish to this mixture and mix.
3. Prepare the remaining products for the recipe. Rinse and chop finely. Wash the tomatoes and cut them into halves or circles. Pull the olives from the brine and cut them into mugs. Grind cheese on any grater.
4. So, put the fish fillet on a baking sheet. Put tomatoes and olives on it. Then a layer of greens and cheese.
5. In this form, in a baking sheet, put the dish in a hot oven at 180-190 ° C for 40-50 minutes.
Tilapia with cheese and egg - roll recipe
Ingredients:
A pound of tilapia;
· 2 tbsp. l tomato paste or mashed potatoes (you can ketchup);
100 g of curd cheese;
· 5 quail eggs;
· 2 egg yolks (chicken);
· 1 tbsp. l wheat flour;
· A bunch of fresh herbs;
3 tsp butter;
· Spices, salt.
Cooking Method:
1. Wash the fish fillet and twist into minced meat. Add the necessary spices and salt, as well as flour and egg yolks. Mix the mass and leave it for now.
2. Boil quail eggs and peel. Then finely chop into crumbs.
3. Chop greens after washing.
4. For the filling of the roll, mix the chopped eggs, herbs and cottage cheese.
5. Distribute the minced fish evenly over the stretched cling film in the form of a square or rectangle. Gently brush with tomato paste. Then lay out the egg filling evenly. Wrap in a roll, starting at one end. Pick up the film - the roll will quickly wrap.
6. Melt the butter and grease the baking sheet with it. Put the roll and pour it with the remaining butter. So that when baking the roll does not crack, pierce it in several places with a knife or fork.
7. Send the roll into the oven at a temperature not exceeding 190 ° C for one hour.
Tilapia with cheese in batter
Ingredients:
A couple of tilapia fillets;
One chicken egg
· 50 g of hard cheese ("Monastic", "Russian" or another);
· 2 tbsp. l mayonnaise sauce;
· 2-3 tbsp. l wheat flour;
100 g breadcrumbs;
· Salt and spices;
Vegetable oil (for frying).
Cooking Method:
1. Prepare the fish. Rinse the fillets and cut into pieces. Arrange with paper towels and leave it to remove excess moisture.
2. Prepare two types of breading and batter. Pour flour in one plate, breadcrumbs in another. In a third bowl, combine one egg, mayonnaise sauce, salt and spices, as well as chopped cheese.
3. So, heat the vegetable oil in a pan.
4. Pieces of fish alternately breaded in flour, dip in cheese and egg batter and bread in breadcrumbs. Spread it in a pan immediately and fry on both sides until golden brown. After turning the pieces over, cover the pan with a lid and reduce the heat. So the fish will cook well inside. If necessary, add oil to the pan.
5. If desired, lay the fried fish first on several layers of paper towels to remove grease.
Tilapia with cheese - tricks and tips
· For casseroles with this fish, take any cereal or vegetables as a side dish.
· It is better to marinate the fish before cooking. As a marinade, you can use lemon or lime juice, vinegar or lemon mayonnaise.
· It is better to take special fish spices for preparing tilapia.
· Tilapia can be cooked in a slow cooker. Cooked in it, it turns out to be very juicy and tender. Just do not overexpose, otherwise there is a risk of overdrying the fish.
