Vegetable Spice Sauce for Fried Tilapia

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This recipe for fried tilapia has an amazing dried vegetable sauce. The fried fish is flaky and savory. Additionally it’s very quick and easy to pan fry which is great for family lunch or dinner.

I love this recipe for fried tilapia because this type of fish is so succulent.

It tastes really savory with this vegetable sauce which includes ingredients like vegetable broth, vegetable oil, sour cream, and lemon juice. The seasoning includes dried onion flakes, dried garlic flakes, and salt.

Other seasoning for the vegetable sauce includes dried red pepper flakes, cornstarch, and cumin. Cumin is such a bold and robust flavor with this recipe for fried tilapia. It originated in the Middle East and is now popular around the world.

Ingredients that you will need for this recipe for fried tilapia include 4 skinless boneless (8 oz) tilapia fillets, 2 tbsp vegetable oil, and 3 large eggs. Also 1 cup bread crumbs, 1 cup all purpose flour, 1 tbsp seasoned salt, and 1/2 tbsp lemon pepper.

Lemon pepper seasoning is really tasty in sauces eaten with fried fish. It’s made with black peppercorn and granulated lemon zest. They are mashed together which allows the citrus oil to fuse into the pepper. This particular recipe for fried tilapia with vegetable spice sauce only requires approximately 24 minutes to complete and makes 4 servings.

You need to properly bread the fish before anything else. Then heat some oil in a skillet before cooking the fish for about 10 minutes. You can make the sauce at the same time in a separate pan! See the full and thorough recipe and directions below.

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Vegetable Spice Sauce for Fried Tilapia

Dinner

By Guest contributor – Serves: 4

Prep Time: 12 minutes – Cooking Time: 12 minutes – Total Time: 24 minutes

This recipe for fried tilapia has an amazing dried vegetable sauce. The fried fish is flaky and savory. Additionally it’s very quick and easy to pan fry which is great for family lunch or dinner.

Ingredients

• Ingredients For The Sauce
• 1 cup vegetable broth
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil
• 2 tbsp sour cream
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• 1 tbsp dried onion flakes
• 1 tbsp dried garlic flakes
• 1/2 tbsp salt
• 1 tbsp dried red pepper flakes
• 1 tsp cornstarch
• 1 tsp cumin
• Ingredients For The Fried Fish
• 4 (8 oz) tilapia fillets (skinless and boneless)
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil
• 3 large eggs
• 1 cup bread crumbs
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 1 tbsp seasoned salt
• 1/2 tbsp lemon pepper

Instructions

Directions For The Sauce

1

Combine all the dry seasoning ingredients (including cornstarch) in a small mixing bowl and whisk

2

Heat the oil, sour cream, and lemon juice in a sauce pan (on low heat) and vigorously whisk them into a paste

3

Slowly add in the dry ingredient mixture while whisking

4

Then slowly whisk in the vegetable broth and simmer on low for 3 minutes

5

Allow the sauce to rest for 5 minutes

Directions For The Fish

6

Combine the bread crumbs, flour, salt, cornstarch and lemon pepper in a large mixing bowl and whisk thoroughly

7

Whisk the eggs in a separate bowl

8

Coat each tilapia fillet completely in the eggs and then immediately toss in the breadcrumb mixture

9

Do this for each tilapia fillet so they are all thoroughly coated in breading

10

Heat the oil in a large skillet on medium heat

11

Fry the tilapia for approximately 4-5 minutes per side

12

Allow them to rest for 5 minutes