Oven Roasted Tilapia
with avocado chimichurri and roasted potatoes + quinoa
Ingredients
- Tilapia fillets - 4
- Cilantro - 1/2 bunch, bottom steps chopped off
- Parsley - 1/4 bunch, bottom stems chopped off
- Garlic cloves - 2, peeled
- Shallots - 1 bulb, peeled
- Capers - 2 Tbsp
- Lime juice - 1 Tbsp
- Olive oil - 2 Tbsp
- Avocado - 1 medium, ripe
- Quinoa - 1 cup
- Lime - 1/2, wedges
- Small potatoes - 1 1/2 lbs ((like fingerling or new))
- Olive oil - 1 1/2 Tbsp
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Prep
- Fish - Rinse and dry.
- Chimichurri - Double ingredients if making tomorrow night's dinner. Puree cilantro, parsley, garlic, shallots, capers, lime juice, olive oil, and avocado in a blender or food processor. Season with salt & pepper. Cover and refrigerate if not using immediately (reserve half for tomorrow night's meal)
- Potatoes - Halve
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Make
- Preheat oven to 500F (260C) degrees
- If you're making tomorrow night's meal, make both nights worth of quinoa tonight (2 cups (472 ml) quinoa + 3 1/2 cups (823 ml) of water). If not, just combine tonight's portion with 1 3/4 cups (411 ml) of water. Add in a generous dash of salt. Bring to a boil covered. Lower heat, keep covered, and cook until liquid is absorbed, 8 to 10 minutes
- Place potatoes on a sheet pan and cover tightly with foil. Bake in the oven for 10 minutes
- Remove foil from potatoes and toss with olive oil and as much salt and pepper as you want. Turn them to cut-side down for extra browning. Roast in the oven for another 10 minutes
- Place fish on sheet pans. Sprinkle with salt & pepper and roast in the same oven with potatoes for 8 to 10 minutes
- Enjoy entire meal with avocado chimichurri (remember to save half for tomorrow night's meal!). Serve fish with extra lime wedges and capers
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Reviews
Ratings
6 reviews
not a fan of a ton of herbs, so made it without them. It was still great! Also served with brussel sprouts to get more veggies
0 Helpfulsauce is a bit too strong. ended up only use one dollop and spreading it among all the fillets.
0 HelpfulThe sauce I had no problem with, though it does seem to me like a glorified guacamole. But hey! now I know how to make dairy-free guac! Bonus!
0 HelpfulLindsey & Laura, I'm so sorry the instructions weren't clear about the sauce. I'm going to fix that and the sauce has everything on the list from cilantro through avocado so: cilantro, parsley, garlic, shallots, capers, lime juice, olive oil, and avocado. Sorry you both had too garlicky-sauces!
0 HelpfulWe made this vegetarian. The patties were tasty but we we hungry pretty soon after. I was also confused about the sauce... If there were other ingredients in it. I assumed yes. But the sauce was very very very garlicky. The potatoes were great!
0 Helpfulconfused as to what ingredients are in the sauce. just avocado cilantro and salt? or all the ingredients? The sauce ended up very, very garlicy. Would give it 3 stars without so much garlic!
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