[food] tilapia with mean mustard paste
Jun. 18th, 2007 05:02 pm
2 (6 ounce) fresh tilapia fillets
1 teaspoon tablespoon spicy brown mustard [actually, we
used Grey Poupon, the kind with seeds]
1 teaspoon tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon tablespoon lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon tablespoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon tablespoon dried oregano
1/2 teaspoon tablespoon grated Parmesan cheese
1 teaspoon tablespoon fine Italian bread crumbs
Preheat oven to 375°F. Butter or oil a baking dish and bake the fillets in it for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, stir together everything else except the bread crumbs.
After 10 minutes of baking, spread paste on fillets and sprinkle with bread crumbs. Continue baking for another 5 minutes until topping is bubbly and golden.
Okay, so we tripled all the amounts in the topping because it seemed like even so it would make such a tiny amount of sauce. And it did! But man, it was more than enough. This had a STRONG flavor. Had we used the amount suggested, the layer of paste perhaps would have been thin enough to bubble or crust over; that didn't happen, which may also have affected how it tasted.
Still, I liked this a lot. If cooking the sauce through is important, I would rather apply the paste earlier in baking than decrease the amount. On the other hand, I like food that wakes me up. The taste was complex enough that I think it would still be interesting for someone who made it as originally written because they wanted less punch.
Also, note that the only prep any ingredient requires is that the cheese has to be grated. This was very low effort for how interesting it tasted.