Recipe of the Week:Tilapia and Green Beans

I have been working on a Family Recipe book for about a year now and I just thought to make sure I'm keeping up with posting regularly-instead of going a month without posting then having a flurry of posts because I put off so many! -I would do a weekly post of recipes! And maybe you can get some of my family's yummy recipes! We have lots of country cooks in our family and for some reason they seem to be better at it than us northerners?


So here's the recipe I tried this week and everyone liked it pretty well.

Tilapia and Green Beans-from the food network revised by me


Frozen Tilapia Fillets (I used 12 for a family of 7)

1 TBS of butter for each fillet

Flour

2 Tsp. Oregano for each fillet

Cracked Black pepper

salt

1 pound green beans fresh or frozen (you may need to increase or decrease the amount)

1 cup grape or cherry tomatoes (the amount of tomatoes should equal the amount of green beans)

lemon juice

I'm really sorry I don't usually use very precise measurements, so just wing it.

First, heat a large skillet on high heat

• Meanwhile, mix you flour, oregano, salt, and pepper in a shallow bowl or large plate




• Hope you thought to thaw your fish and green beans




• Drop 4 Tbs. of butter into you skillet, and dredge fish in your flour mixture one or two at a time




• Add two fillets at a time to the skillet cook for about 7 minutes or until bottom is browned




• Flip fillets and heat through another 2 or 3 minutes until reverse side is browned




• Transfer fillets to plate and keep warm-I used the microwave




• Cook two more fillets, each time dredging fillets in flour mixture-you may need to adjust the heat by now-remember it was one TBS of butter for each fillet, so now that you've cooked four fillets add four more TBS of butter.



• Once all fillets are cooked, add thawed green beans to skillet with a TBS of butter-unsalted natural butter, that vegetable spread butter, or butter with oil additives doesn't work so well. (I tried it=( )



• Cook beans about 2 minutes, sprinkle with cracked black pepper, and salt.



• If you have kids or little siblings it's a good idea to have them chopping the beans and tomatoes in half while you cook the fish. If not, I'm sure you'll find a way!



• Now add the tomatoes to the green beans, squirt a little lemon juice in and add 1/4 cup of water.



• Cover and continue to cook for 4 minutes or until veggies are soft.



• Now you can transfer your dishes to nice pretty plates and things and I put fresh cut cantaloupe with mine it was super good. Macaroni salad would probably be good too.

That's it!

(Would you like to see this recipe? Visit my art blog www.creationofapenguinsimagination.blogspot.com and search the archives list for 'Food=Art'.)