Tilapia Italiano

Serves 4

Prep: 5 minutes
Cook: 20 minutes

Ingredients

• 4 tilapia fillets
• 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
• 2/3 (14 ounce) can diced tomatoes
• 2/3 teaspoon thyme (fresh off the stem or granulated )
• 2/3 (4 ounce) can black olives (sliced )
• 2/3 teaspoon parsley
• 1/3 teaspoon fresh basil
• 1 1/3 garlic cloves (minced )
• 1/3 cup vidalia onion (sweet, finely chopped )
• 2/3 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
• 4 sprigs thyme
• 4 lemon slices

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Lightly spray a shallow baking dish with cooking spray (olive or canola).
3. In a bowl, stir together oil, thyme, diced tomatoes, sliced olives, parsley, basil, chopped onions and lemon juice.
4. In the prepared baking dish, arrange the fillets skin side down and season with salt.
5. Spoon the tomato mixture over the fillets abundantly.
6. Bake, uncovered, in the middle of the oven for about 15 or 20 minutes or until fish just flake.
7. Garnish fish with lemon slices and fresh Thyme .

Serve with pasta out of your pantry (tortellini is recommended, but I've used everything from bowtie to egg noodles).

Baked Tilapia With Vegetables

Serves 4
Prep time: 10 min.
Cook time: 20 min.

Ingredients:

* 4 tilapia fillets
* 2 tablespoons olive oil
* 2 large portabella mushrooms, diced
* 1 yellow bell pepper, chopped
* 6 green onions, chopped
* 2 dashes sea salt
* 1/2 teaspoon paprika
* 2 teaspoons dried tarragon, crumbled

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 450°F.
2. Lay down aluminum foil on baking sheet and arrange fillets in a single layer.
3. Sprinkle with salt and paprika; Set aside.
4. In a small skillet, heat olive oil; quickly saute portabello, green onion and yellow pepper, about 2-3 minutes.
5. Add tarragon, and simmer 2-3 minutes more.
6. If this mixture is very wet, simmer to reduce another minute or two.
7. Spoon contents of skillet over fish.
8. Bake@ 450F 20 minutes.