Lemon Garlic Tilapia

Since I have been sick this week I wanted to do something easy for dinner last night that wasn't take-out (since we ordered out pizza the night before). We received a gift card at Christmas to a meat and seafood store from one of the local doctors. Last year we used our gift card to get a box of steaks for free but this year we paid $10 more and got a box of 18 tilapia fillets! I had no idea the box would come with that many so I decided I was going to have to start trying out some new tilapia recipes. I usually use this recipe when I make tilapia but last night I tried a new recipe and it was oh so good. I think Marc and I both liked it better. I have a few more recipes to try in the coming months that I am excited about. I found the recipes on allrecipes.com. I did make a few changes to this one and have included those in the recipe below.

(photo from allrecipes.com)

Lemon Garlic Tilapia

Ingredients:
4 tilapia fillets
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
3 tablespoons butter, melted
1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil
3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1 1/2 tablespoons of Italian parsley, finely chopped
seasoned salt and pepper to taste

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Spray a baking dish with non-stick cooking spray.
2. Rinse tilapia fillets under cool water, and pat dry with paper towels. Season with salt and pepper.
3. Place fillets in baking dish (my fillets were still a little frozen so I left them in the fridge in the baking dish after they were rinsed and seasoned to finish thawing for a few hours. I have heard rinsing and salting them ahead of time helps take out the "fishy" taste as well).
4. Saute chopped garlic and parsley in butter and olive oil.
5. Pour lemon juice over fillets, then drizzle butter/EVOO mixture on top.
4. Bake in preheated oven until the fish is white and flakes when pulled apart with a fork, about 15-20 minutes.

We ate ours with some green beans and baked sweet potatoes loaded with all the good stuff. :) Yummy!