Experience The Caribbean Culture With These Delightful Recipes
When someone talks of delightful Caribbean recipes, you must never mistake it for your normal recipe for cooking food. Caribbean islands of now are the result of intermingling of several cultures and that is what reflects in its cuisine also. Caribbean cuisines are a blend of cooking styles from all over the world but it has not lost its own authentic culinary skills.
What this means is that all you people out there who are sufficiently bored with your daily dose of repetitive dishes, your culinary problems are almost over. You just need to use some of the delightful Caribbean recipes that we are going to present you and you would experience the difference for yourself.
Traditionally when fish is prepared in our kitchen we use some butter and some lemon where making it spicy is concerned. But if you really want to know what spice and flavor are all about, you should taste delightful Caribbean recipes. Your tastes buds would remain tingling for days after getting a taste of these delightful Caribbean recipes. And don't think that if it is spicy it won't be healthy. It is certainly nutritious.
So, what are we waiting for? Let us start with a simple delightful Caribbean recipe.
Ingredients
4 tilapia fillets
1 cup green pepper (chopped)
2 table-spoon margarine (low fat)
1 cup roasted and chopped almond
4 tablespoon chopped onion
1 teaspoon oregano
1 cup bread crumbs (fresh)
4 tablespoon lime juice (fresh)
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon chopped coriander
2 cloves of garlic crushed
2 cups water
1 bay leaf
1 lime peel
1 teaspoon red pepper (flakes)
PREPARATION STEPS
Start with melting margarine in a hot skillet. Use medium heat so that the butter must not turn brown. Now add green pepper and half the chopped onion. Now, fry the onion and pepper till onion turns transparent. The next turn would be of almonds, bread crumbs, oregano, one table spoon lime juice, coriander and salt. And now mix everything well.
Now, spoon down the filling to the center of the tilapia fillets and roll up both the fillets. Use toothpicks to secure the fillets. Now use a shallow baking pan and take water, garlic, bay leaf, red pepper, onion and lemon juice. Add to it the 2 fillets and bake it in the oven for about half an hour at 400 F. Use occasional basting so hat fillets flake out.
Now, put the tilapia fillets to a serving platter. Garnish it with lime peel. You can serve it to four people.
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COOKING: Almond Crusted Tilapia
