Quick Post: This dinner couldn’t be easier, and it was so tasty. I modified this a little with the addition of lemon zest for the butter/cheese mixture. Mine cooked perfectly in 10 minutes plus the 2 minute broiler time. Watch your fish carefully and adjust the cook time as necessary. I had one really small piece of fish that I added to the baking sheet 5 minutes into the cooking and it came out perfectly. We enjoyed this meal with a green salad, but you could serve it with rice, pasta or steamed veggies. Thanks for reading, enjoy!
Parmesan Baked Tilapia – adapted from How Sweet Eats
- 4 tilapia filets
- 4 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
- 1/4 cup grated/shredded parmesan cheese
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- zest of one lemon
- salt and pepper to taste
- lemon slices for serving
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Pat tilapia dry (if frozen, it should be thawed first) with a paper towel and season with salt and pepper. Lay on a baking sheet sprayed with non-stick spray and bake for 10-12 minutes. While fish is baking, mix butter with garlic, lemon zest and parmesan cheese.
Remove fish from oven and gently flip. Spread about 1/2 tablespoons of butter mixture on the fish, and heat the broiler in your oven. Set fish under the broiler for about 2-3 minutes, or until cheese gets golden and bubbly.
Serve with lemon.
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This recipe is absolutely amazing! It was so good, in fact, that I made it two nights in a row. I have told my friends about it, and they’ve tried it on pork chops and chicken. They said they LOVED it! Thank you so much for sharing this. (I’ve had the recipe saved for quite some time but had not used it until now.) 🙂