One of our favorite tilapia recipes! This quick and easy one-pan meal is cooks the tilapia with onions, garlic, diced tomatoes, mushrooms, and olives.

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Tilapia Filets

Tilapia, a tasty farm-raised fish originally from Africa, has become more and more popular here in the States. Tilapia recipes are abundant, and the fish is easy to prepare as long as you buy filets.

I recently brought home a whole tilapia from our local Asian fish market and made quite a mess of trying to fillet it myself. Dad pitched in, with no more luck than I, and we ended up throwing the pieces (you couldn’t quite call them fillets anymore) into a fish stew.

Now we know better. Just buy the straight fillets.

Fresh Tilapia Recipe

Tilapia are mild tasting, and fresh vegetables can really shine and highlight this relatively inexpensive fish. Here is a quick and easy way of cooking tilapia, a one-pan way of preparing this versatile fish that we found years ago from Better Homes and Gardens.

The preparation is similar to Veracruz-style in this tilapia recipe, shallow poached on top of a bed of sliced onions, tomatoes, green olives, and mushrooms. It’s fresh, easy, and delicious.

What to Serve with Tilapia

This tilapia is practically a meal unto itself! This said, a piece of crusty bread or a scoop of rice would go quite well alongside.

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