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Cornmeal-Crusted Tilapia with Peach Tomato Relish
| Serving size: | Serves 2 |
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| Prep time: | 15-20 min. |
| Cook time: | 6-8 min |
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Try this delicious recipe using Nugget’s Tilapia labeled sustainable by the FishWise program.
Ingredients
- 4 fillets tilapia
- ½ cup buttermilk
- ½ cup corn meal, ground fine
- 2 heirloom tomatoes, diced medium
- 1 peach, pitted and diced medium
- 1 shallot, brunoised
- 8 basil leaves, chiffonaded
- 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons kosher or sea salt
- Kosher or sea salt and cracked black pepper to taste
Preparation
In a non-reactive container, put the buttermilk, tilapia, and about 2 teaspoons salt and place in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.
While the fish is soaking, dice up your tomatoes, shallot, peach and basil, and mix in a bowl with the rice wine vinegar; salt and pepper to taste.
Heat a large non-stick skillet on medium heat.
Place the cornmeal onto a plate or other flat container and season with salt and pepper. Dredge your tilapia in the cornmeal. When your oil starts to ripple when you shake the pan, fry the fillets for 3-4 minutes per side, or until the meat starts to flake away easily.
Serve two fillets per person with a generous heaping of peach-tomato relish.
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Pair with
- Viognier
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Viognier is responsible for the prestigious wine Condrieu and is quickly gaining popularity with Californian producers. Its aromas suggest exotic honeysuckle and stone fruit, and it has a lanolinish flavor with a heavy, oily texture.
— Hank Beal, Director of Adult Beverages
- Torrontes
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Similar in weight to Sauvignon Blanc, with more of the floral aromatics of a Viognier. A very refreshing wine - perfect for quaffing.
— Hank Beal, Director of Adult Beverages
- Semillon
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In Bordeaux and California, Semillon is often blended with Sauvignon Blanc. Because of its lean tartness Sauvignon Blanc is quite the opposite of Semillon - and, as they say, "Opposites attract." Outside Bordeaux, Semillon is becoming quite popular in Australia.
— Hank Beal, Director of Adult Beverages
- Albarino
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A delicious, light, lemony, often slightly fizzy wine. Not as full bodied as Chardonnay, as minerally as Riesling, or as herbal as Sauvignon Blanc. Albarino's flavors range from zingy citrus-peach to almond-honeysuckle.
— Hank Beal, Director of Adult Beverages
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