Tilapia with Lemon-Chive Butter
strawberry, almond and goat cheese salad
Pan-seared tilapia makes an extra special dinner thanks to the addition of fresh lemon-chive butter sauce. Enjoy a summery strawberry and goat cheese salad on the side!
Ingredients
- Chives - 2 Tbsp, chopped
- Lemons - 1, half sliced into wedges & juice from other half
- Tilapia (sub cod or other white fish) - 4 fillets
- Butter - 2 Tbsp + 3 Tbsp
- Flour, all-purpose or whole wheat - 1 Tbsp
- White wine (sub chicken or vegetable stock) - 1/3 cup
- Lime juice - 1 Tbsp
- Vinegar, red wine - 1 Tbsp
- Honey - 1 tsp
- Mustard, Dijon - 1/2 tsp
- Oil, cooking - 3 Tbsp
- Greek yogurt, plain - 1 Tbsp
- Strawberries - 1 pint, quartered
- Goat cheese - 3 oz
- Baby spinach - 5 oz (sub other salad greens)
- Almonds, sliced - 4 oz
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Prep
- Make dressing - Combine lime juice, vinegar, honey and mustard with oil. Whisk in Greek yogurt. (Can be done up to 3 days ahead)
- Chives / Lemons / Strawberries - Prep as directed. (Can be done up to 3 days ahead)
- Fish - Rinse and pat dry. Season with salt and pepper.
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Make
- Whisk salad dressing and adjust to taste - add some honey or oil if too tart.
- Heat a skillet or non-stick pan over medium heat. Add first part of butter. Once butter melts, sear fillets in batches for 3 to 4 minutes on each side, until flaky and golden. Set fish aside and return pan to heat.
- Reduce heat to medium. Add remaining butter to the hot pan. Once butter melts and begins to sizzle, add flour and stir until a thick paste forms. Slowly add white wine, whisking vigorously until smooth. Heat until sauce begins to simmer and allow to continue cooking ~2 minutes. Remove from heat and whisk in chives and juice from half the lemon. Season with salt and pepper.
- Crumble goat cheese over spinach, strawberries and almonds. Toss with dressing.
- Serve tilapia with lemon-chive butter sauce over the top and extra lemon wedges. Enjoy with salad on the side!
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65 reviews
We used Mahi Mahi for the fish and enjoyed it. The sauce was a bit thicker than expected, but still very tasty. Added a side of roasted radish and turnip with a parsley garlic butter based on fridge inventory.
0 HelpfulThe fish was delicious. I think I will do butter poached fish for the rest of my life. The sauce??? I don't know what happened there, but I tried it twice and it did NOT work. First, the 3 TB of butter + 1 TB flour did not make a thick paste, it made a buttery roux. I tried to get a thick paste the first time and ended up with burned roux. It was disgusting when I added wine, so that ended up in the trash. The second time I didn't try for a thick paste and just added wine after the flour was added, and it my buttery sauce clumped up and didn't become saucy at all - more like a wet dough. Total and complete failure. Good news is that the fish was delicious without the added butter. I had to sub orange (used all the strawberries for the croissant) and queso fresco (due to DH's food preferences) in the salad. I can see how it would have been much better with goat cheese & strawberries.
0 HelpfulButter poached ANYTHING - yes please! Used shallots since I didn't have chives - sautéed in second portion of butter before adding the almond meal and it turned out great. Clean plates all around!
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