Baked Tilapia with Mustard Sauce

Name: Baked Tilapia with Mustard Sauce
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 12 min
Total time: 22 min
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 3-4 Fish, Tilapia Fish Fillets - about 1 pound Tilapia; 1 Cup Creme Fraiche, 8 oz french style clotted sour cream or you can use mayo instead.; 4 tbsp Mustard, 3 tablespoons Dijon Mustard + 1 tablespoon whole-grain mustard; 1 tbsp Capers; 2 tbsp Red Onion, fine minced red onion; Salt and Black Pepper, Kosher salt and fresh ground pepper to taste; 1 tsp Lemon, fresh grated lemon zest; 1/4 tsp Cayenne Pepper

Oct 27

Posted By Savita

Main Course Holidays American Seafood

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Everyone in my family love fried fish with pickled radish but we often marinate fish in garlic and lemon marinade and bake it for healthy oil-free fish dinner. Not just for health but I also love baked fish for taste and flavor.

My love for fish comes from many - whole fish roasts dinners in my grandparent's home. My grandfather loved cooking (passion for cooking runs in my family). After retirement he dedicated himself to cooking. Especially during holidays, his aromatic Tandoori fish (fish baked in clay oven) recipe was often in-demand among relatives and friends.

On weekends, everyone would gather for his soups and fish dinners and all kids used to enjoy playing around with no restrictions and lots of fun and lots of goodies to eat. Those were golden days of my childhood.

Today, when I baked tilapia with mustard, capers and creme fraiche, whole house was filled with nice mustard and fish aroma and it felt like I am 8 years old playing in my grandparent's yard while my grandpa is cooking fish in the kitchen.

Even though this is not the same recipe but flavor was excellent. Fish was moist, tangy, mustardy and one of the quickest fish recipe ever. I have to say that while fish and lemon is match made in heaven, mustard works great with fish too. In-fact, I used a few tbsp of leftover sauce for dipping the vegetables I served on side. So, even if you don't want to bake the fish, you can try this scrumptious mustard sauce with french fries or fresh crunchy veggies.

Busy Weeknights - Quick Dinner

This one pot fish recipe you can totally trust during busy weekdays/weeknights, combine sauce ingredients and leave in refrigerator. In evening, just preheat oven, spoon sauce over fish and bake for easy, healthy, flavorful fish dinner in just 15 minutes. Serve with bread or steamed rice on the side.

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