Tilapia is a very tasty and completely low-fat fish that your family will definitely like. This recipe is interesting for its ease of execution and variety of ingredients. And serving dishes in the spirit of oriental traditions and amazingly tasty, slightly sweet sauce will definitely not leave you indifferent. Let's cook together tilapia fillets in batter in a frying pan according to a very interesting recipe.

Kitchen tools: several bowls, two kitchen boards, a knife, a spoon, a fork, a whisk, paper towels, two pans, a large platter.

Ingredients

• When frozen, tilapia loses its excellent nutritional properties, and the texture of fillet fibers also deteriorates. Try not to buy frozen fish, but chilled, so it will retain much more nutrients.
• Before buying, carefully inspect the carcass: it should be beautiful, without incomprehensible color blotches, and an unpleasant smell should not come from it.
• Try to choose fish from certified stores and avoid this purchase in the markets. You have the right to request information about the place where the tilapia was caught or breeding.

Making the tilapia marinade

Making batter the Japanese way

Making the sauce

1. You will need 6 large grapes. Cut them in half and carefully remove the seeds.

   You can use raisins, however, it is the large juicy berries that look beautiful when serving the finished dish.

   
   
   
2. Put the pan to preheat, add 10 g of butter and 30 ml of grape seed oil.
   
   
3. Take care of the chili peppers for now - cut 6 rings. Now chop the jalapeno peppers into small pieces.
   
   
4. Place it in a preheated skillet along with the chili rings.
   
   
5. Add 30 ml of soy sauce. It is very salty, and therefore the future sauce does not need to be salted anymore.
   
   
6. Put in 25 g of sugar, a drop of Tabasco, you can take either red or green - at your discretion.
   
   
7. And, in fact, grapes. You do not need to simmer it for too long so that the berries do not fall apart and the jam does not work. The sauce should simmer a little.
   
   
8. Watch the grapes, stir the sauce periodically. When the bubbles go all over the pan, the tilapia caramel sauce is ready.
   
   

Cooking tilapia

1. Heat vegetable oil in a skillet.

   Want to check if it's hot? Pay attention to the consistency of the oil - it becomes liquid.

   
   
   
2. Prepare paper towels and spread the tilapia pieces over them to remove excess moisture.
   
   
3. Dip the fish fillets in flour until the pieces are completely covered with wheat flour. This simple procedure will get rid of the remaining moisture.
   
   
4. Cover the board with paper towels before frying the fish to remove excess oil after frying.
5. Dip the fillets completely into the batter and carefully transfer the fish to the skillet.
   
   
6. Pieces can stick together - you can fix this with a regular spoon.
   
   
7. The fish is cooked in the usual way for a minute on each side. To cook tilapia fish in batter in the Japanese manner, you need to fry it for 2 minutes on each side.
   
   
8. Then, to finish cooking, turn the fish over and fry for another 1 minute.
   
   
9. When the fillets are done, place the slices on a paper towel to drain off excess fat.
   
   

Decorating and serving the dish

How to decorate a dish

• If you wish, lemon can be replaced with lime, which also goes well with fish products.
• When replacing lemon with other citrus fruits, add a few bunches of mint. It goes well with fried fish and lime, lemon, orange. This advice is no less valuable for submission.
• In principle, any vegetables that you and your family like are suitable for decoration.

Video recipe for cooking tilapia in batter

In this video, you will learn the basics of making oriental-style fried tilapia with crispy Japanese batter. It is in this embodiment that the slices are juicy and tasty. Green Japanese batter is not complicated at all and is the highlight of this simple recipe.

What to file with

Tilapia is a lean fish, and therefore it goes well with dense side dishes, for example, vegetable purees or stews. Also, fried fish will suit fried potatoes prepared in any of the ways - slices, straws or pieces.

I do not advise you to give preference to pasta and cereals, they do not go well with fish, but only confuse and do not allow the taste of the main dish to fully unfold. The same applies to. The exception is Fig. This cereal can and should be used with any fish and sauce.

• Plan the preparation of the fish in advance and take out the carcass in advance to defrost.
• You can also speed up this process a little by immersing the fillets in cool water.
• Never use warm or hot water to defrost fish.... Not only will it lose its last beneficial properties, it will also spoil the taste and appearance of the finished dish.
• Let the fish steep a little in the marinade, so it will turn out to be more juicy and tasty.
• Stock up on paper towels - this will allow you to get rid of excess moisture, allowing the batter to stick to the product as much as possible. And after cooking, paper towels will take away the remaining fat, and thus you will serve lean and tasty fish to the table.
• It is not advisable to use raisins- seedless grapes. As a result, it does not look as impressive on a platter as large and fresh berries.
• I do not advise replacing grapes with other fruits, for example, apples, peaches, pears. The sauce will lose its interesting taste and will not harmonize so well with the fish, although, of course, you can experiment and look for your own.
• Make the batter initially thick and only then dilute with water, this way you will achieve a homogeneous mass of it. By the way, other low-fat varieties of fish, for example, or no less tasty, are perfectly combined with batter.

Perhaps every housewife prefers to fry fish in her own way using family tricks.... Try this method of making tilapia in Japanese batter. Tell me in the comments if you like this simple recipe? Share your fish cooking tricks.

The main habitat of tilapia is East Africa, as well as other tropical and subtropical latitudes. In Russia, fish appeared only a few decades ago, and now it is bred in specially equipped ponds. The meat of this freshwater inhabitant is eaten boiled, fried or baked, in any case it turns out to be very tasty. In this section, we will look at 7 recipes for tilapia in batter.

In this section, we will look at the classic recipe for making tilapia fillets in batter in a pan.

To create a batter, you will need the following components per 2 kg of fish:

• 2-3 eggs;
• 50 ml of milk;
• a few tablespoons of flour;
• fish spices;
• powdered black pepper and salt.

How to fry fish in batter in a pan:

1. Cut the tilapia into portions, add a little salt, and leave on a plate.
2. Beat eggs in a wide bowl until stiff foam forms.
3. Salt the egg mixture, add pepper and fish spices, add milk and stir.
4. Add flour little by little, without stopping to work with a whisk. Its amount is indicated approximately, you may need a little more. The main thing is that the batter is thick and viscous.
5. We dip the fish pieces into the batter, put them in a hot frying pan and fry.

Attention! Putting tilapia in a skillet should only be done after the oil has warmed up properly and bubbles begin to emit. If you do this earlier, the liquid batter will stick to the bottom and ruin the appearance of the dish.

We bake in the oven in cheese batter

Even easier than frying in a pan is to cook tilapia in batter in the oven. To do this, we will slightly modify the classic recipe by adding cheese to the dish.

You will need the following products:

• 3 kg tilapia (carcasses or fillets);
• a couple of eggs;
• some flour;
• hard cheese;
• dried herbs;
• salt and seasonings;
• parchment paper for baking.

How to cook tilapia fish in the oven:

1. We cut the carcass into pieces, and if it is a fillet, we divide it into 3-4 parts.
2. Rub the fish with a mixture of salt and spices, let it soak. Moreover, you should not salt it too much, since the cheese that will be added to the batter contains this seasoning in considerable quantities. If you overdo it, the fish will become inedible.
3. We make cheese crumbs using a fine mesh grater.
4. Beat eggs with sour cream, then add greens and grated hard cheese, mix with a whisk or fork.
5. We bring the batter to the desired consistency with flour. It should be thicker than the dough used to fry the tilapia in the pan.
6. Put parchment paper on a baking sheet, grease it with vegetable oil.
7. We lay out the pieces of fish on top, first dipping them into the prepared composition.
8. We put the dishes in a preheated oven for 20-25 minutes.

On a note. You can cook this dish in a different way, without adding cheese to the batter, but sprinkling it on pieces of tilapia spread out on a baking sheet, dipped in batter.

Juicy fish in dough with beer

Fried tilapia will turn out incredibly tender if cooked in beer batter. It is better to take a drink for creating a dough of light varieties without unnecessary flavors and additives.

You will need the following products:

• 2 kg of fish;
• a glass of beer;
• egg;
• flour;
• a pinch of curry;
• paprika;
• salt and ground powdered pepper.

How to make a dish:

1. Cut the tilapia washed in cool water, salt and set aside.
2. Beat the egg with spices, then pour in beer in a thin stream.
3. Using flour, we bring the composition to the desired consistency, so that it is viscous.
4. Stir the dough until not a single lump remains.
5. Dip the fish in batter, fry in a hot frying pan.

It is better to set a medium fire for cooking tilapia, because with intense heating it will burn, and with low heat it will take too long to fry.

In lush batter on mineral water

The batter on mineral water turns out to be light and very fluffy, while the fish is completely fried, but remains soft and tender. To create a batter, you need to take highly carbonated water, the brand does not matter.

To work you will need the following products:

• a few pieces of tilapia fillets;
• 2 eggs;
• 100 ml of mineral water;
• flour;
• salt and seasonings.

How to cook fish in mineral water dough:

1. Cut the tilapia fillet into pieces, salt and rub with seasonings.
2. Beat eggs in a bowl, pour in mineral water.
3. Pour flour to make the dough thick and viscous, mix.
4. Dip the fish pieces into a semi-liquid composition, and then fry in a pan.

Advice. To give the batter extra softness, add a few tablespoons of cow's milk to the composition.

Tilapia fried in garlic batter

Someone thinks that hot spices are more suitable for meat and poultry than for fish. But despite this, many people love tilapia fried in garlic batter.

To create a dish, you will need the following products:

• 3 kg of fish;
• 2 eggs;
• a few tablespoons of sour cream;
• garlic teeth;
• dried herbs;
• flour;
• salt and seasonings.

How to cook fish:

1. Cut the tilapia into portions, add a little salt.
2. Beat eggs with salt and seasonings, add garlic passed through a press and dried herbs.
3. We introduce sour cream, mix the composition thoroughly.
4. Pour in the required amount of flour to make the batter viscous.
5. Dip pieces of fish in batter and fry in a pan.

The best side dish for such a dish will be boiled, fried or mashed potatoes.

Plain breading in the oven

When there is no time to create complex batter and mess around in the kitchen for a long time, you can cook tilapia in the oven in the simplest way.

This will require the following products:

• several pieces of fish fillets;
• half a lemon;
• egg;
• bread mixture;
• salt and fish seasoning;
• parchment paper.

How to prepare a dish:

1. We cut the fish, salt and season with spices, pour with lemon juice.
2. Beat the egg until fluffy in a wide bowl, pour the breading mixture onto a flat plate.
3. Place the parchment paper on a baking sheet and saturate with oil.
4. Dip the tilapia pieces first into an egg, then roll in breadcrumbs and spread on a baking sheet.
5. We bake the fish in a preheated oven for about 20 minutes.

Advice. To prevent tilapia from sticking to parchment, you should not save on vegetable oil, and thoroughly saturate the paper with it.

Fish batter with mayonnaise

On the basis of mayonnaise, a wonderful batter for fish is obtained - soft, airy and tender.

To prepare the dish, you will need the following products:

• 2 kg of fish;
• a couple of eggs;
• 100-120 g mayonnaise;
• flour;
• salt and black pepper.

How to prepare a dish:

1. Cut the fish, sprinkle with salt and spices.
2. Combine eggs with mayonnaise, beat.
3. Gradually adding flour, we bring the batter to a viscous consistency.
4. Dip pieces of tilapia into the batter, fry in a preheated frying pan.

Fried fish can be served with stewed vegetables, stewed rice, or fresh salad.

Low-calorie and very tender fillet of tilapia in batter has the ability to please everyone who tries it, including people who care about a healthy diet. This dish uses fish, which is rich in proteins, fatty acids (omega-3) and other trace elements important for maintaining human health.

Tilapia is sometimes called "chicken fish" due to the fact that its meat is juicy and rich in protein, is lean and low in calories. You can choose different batter for tilapia - mayonnaise, green, cheese, sour cream, and each option will add separate notes of taste to the finished dish.

Green batter

Green batter for fillets is an excellent solution that can surprise with spice and a variety of choices of possible ingredients. For green batter, you can take the usual set of greens - dill, parsley, green onions, or you can add basil, cilantro, rosemary and arugula.

Ingredients:

• eggs - 3 pcs.;
• kefir - 150 ml;
• greens (assorted) - 100 gr.;
• starch - 2 tbsp. l .;
• flour - 1 tbsp. l .;
• baking powder - 1 package;
• salt, pepper - to taste.

Drive eggs into kefir, add flour, baking powder, starch, seasonings, mix everything thoroughly. Process the set of greens with a blender until a homogeneous gruel, then pour in the composition of kefir with additives, beat again, then pour into a shallow container. Tilapia fillets, washed and dried with towels, can be dipped in the resulting batter and fried in a pan until both sides are golden brown.

Sour cream batter

If you use sour cream batter when baking tilapia fillets, the finished meal will turn out to be as tender and juicy as possible.

Ingredients:

• sour cream - 150 ml;
• lemon - ½ pc.;
• flour - 2 tbsp. l .;
• seasoning for fish - 1 tsp;
• pepper (ground, white) - ½ tsp;
• salt to taste.

Mix sour cream with flour, add squeezed lemon juice, then mix everything and add salt and white pepper. Before baking, the tilapia fillet is rubbed with seasoning for fish, spread on a baking sheet, poured with batter and sent to the oven (preheated to 180 ° C) for 15-25 minutes.

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Mayonnaise batter

The airy batter of mayonnaise will make the tender tilapia fillet even more juicy and tasty. This dish turns out to be rich and, despite the fat content of mayonnaise, it will still be quite useful for connoisseurs of a healthy lifestyle, as well as attractive for those who just love to eat deliciously.

Ingredients:

• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• mayonnaise - 4 tbsp. l .;
• flour - 4 tbsp. l .;
• salt to taste.

Combine mayonnaise with flour and salt, beat in eggs, mix everything thoroughly (you can whisk with a whisk, but stop until foam forms). The result should be a batter with the consistency of sour cream, which does not flow from the "sides" of the fish after application. Tilapia fillets are dipped in the composition and fried in a pan or in a slow cooker for 5-6 minutes on both sides until the crust is golden brown.

Cheese batter

Cheese batter for tilapia fillets is chosen by culinary specialists in cases when their relatives do not like the smell and taste of fish too much. The cheese crust will give the dish a completely different, not fishy, ​​but magical taste that will make the whole family look forward to dinner.

Ingredients:

• kefir - 200 ml;
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• flour - 200 gr.;
• cheese - 200 gr.;
• salt, pepper, curry - to taste.

Beat the eggs, gradually introducing kefir with flour, and then salt with pepper and curry. Next, you need to add grated cheese to the batter (preferably hard varieties so that it lends itself well to the grater), making sure that the consistency does not become too thick - it should resemble sour cream. The finished dough is used for all-round coating of tilapia fillets, which are then fried on both sides in a pan in a large portion of vegetable oil for 5-7 minutes.

Beer batter

Beer batter is best suited for juicy and tender fish fillets such as tilapia. Such a dough easily adheres to the fish "filling", gives the finished dish a piquant aftertaste, and forms an air-crispy crust when fried. Ingredients:

• beer - 200 ml;
• flour - 400 gr.;
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• oil (vegetable) - 2 tbsp. l .;
• salt and pepper to taste.

Pour flour into beer, mix thoroughly until smooth, then beat in eggs, add oil and seasonings. The finished dough should resemble thick sour cream.

Tilapia fillet in batter in a pan

If all the standard options for batter batter have been tested, it is worth moving on to culinary experiments, for example, preparing a mustard-mayonnaise composition. Such a fillet of tilapia in batter in a pan will delight you with its original taste and will become a wonderful "fast food" solution in case of a quick dinner or a sudden arrival of guests.

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Ingredients:

• tilapia (fillet) - 6 pcs.;
• mayonnaise - 4 tbsp. l .;
• mustard - 3 tbsp. l .;
• crackers (breading) - 100 gr.;
• paprika (sweet) - ¼ tsp;
• thyme (ground) - ¼ tsp;
• parsley (dried) - 1 tsp;
• black pepper, salt to taste.

In one bowl, mix the breadcrumbs with salt, thyme, pepper, paprika and dried parsley. In another container, combine and mix thoroughly mayonnaise with mustard. Tilapia fillet, cut into portions, first salt, then dip in mustard-mayonnaise batter, then in the breading mixture. After that, the fish should be fried in well-heated vegetable oil until golden brown for 4-5 minutes on both sides, maintaining medium heat under the pan.

Important! Regular consumption of fish is beneficial for everyone. It contains not only proteins important for the life of the human body, but also iron, potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus and B-group vitamins.

Tilapia in batter in the oven

Baking tilapia fillets in batter in the oven is even easier (and certainly cleaner) than frying them in a pan. Thanks to this method of processing, tender fish will cook deliciously even in the simplest composition of the batter.

Ingredients:

• tilapia (fillet) - 6 pcs.;
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• sour cream - 3-4 tbsp. l .;
• flour - 3 tbsp. l .;
• cheese - 100 gr.;
• greens (dried) - 2 tsp;
• salt, pepper - to taste.

Divide each fillet into 3-4 parts, rub with salt and pepper, leave to marinate for 10 minutes. Grate cheese on a fine grater with crumbs, stir it into sour cream, then drive eggs into the mixture and add herbs. If the batter turns out to be too liquid, it can be thickened with flour so that the finished dough is thicker in consistency than sour cream. Dip the fillet pieces in the batter, coat them thoroughly, and then put them on a baking sheet covered with oiled parchment paper. Tilapia should be baked in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 20-25 minutes.

Advice! Another option for preparing this dish is to put the marinated fillet on a greased baking sheet with high walls, place thin slices of cheese on top, and then pour over everything with liquid batter. In this case, it is not necessary to choose hard cheese - you can take any one to your taste.

Tilapia fillet in potato batter

Cooking fish in batter and immediately with a side dish is not a problem if you take into account the recipe for frying fish fillets in potato batter. Tilapia fillet with potatoes combines a tender, juicy "filling" and a golden crispy crust, which is a side dish.

Tilapia in cheese batter is a fairly simple, but very tasty dish. The fish turns out to be juicy and tender, and since it cooks very quickly, it is perfect for a quick dinner ...

Any fish fillet is suitable for this recipe, so you can safely replace tilapia with pangasius, pike perch, pollock, hake, etc.
We wash the tilapia under running water and dry it with paper towels ...

Then we cut each fish into four parts ...

Sprinkle with lemon juice, sprinkle with a little salt and add spices to taste ...

Mix everything well and leave our fish to marinate for 15-20 minutes. In the meantime, prepare the sauce and batter. For the sauce, mix 2 tbsp. l. sour cream and 2 tbsp. l. mayonnaise ...

Three gherkins on a medium grater, squeeze lightly and add next. Gherkins can be safely replaced with one pickled cucumber ...

Add chopped garlic to this (I also grated it on a medium grater) ...

And greens (I had frozen dill) ...

Mix everything well. Our sauce is delicious and, it seems to me, perfect for this dish, the sauce is ready!

Now let's start making batter. To do this, knock eggs into a deep plate ...

Add 1 tbsp to them. l. with a slide of sour cream (can be replaced with mayonnaise) ...

Flour and a small pinch of salt (if the cheese is salty enough, then salt can be excluded if desired) ...

Add cheese, grated on a medium grater ...

And mix everything well. Our batter is ready ...

Dip tilapia in batter ...

And put it in a frying pan preheated with vegetable oil. Since the batter is quite thick, I dip the fillet on one side and put this side on the pan, and on top I add a little batter on the other side with a spoon ...

We fry the fish without covering with a lid over low heat on both sides until golden brown ...

That's all. Our fragrant, tender and appetizing fish is ready ...

And in addition, with the sauce that we prepared, it turns out even tastier. I highly recommend it!

This fish can be served with boiled rice or potatoes. It's also delicious with French fries or, as an alternative to what I usually practice, with oven-baked potato wedges.
It will be appropriate to prepare this dish both for an everyday table and for a festive one. Enjoy your meal!

Cooking time: PT00H40M 40 min.

Probably the fastest and tastiest way to cook it. The juiciness and aroma of fish is preserved, but at the same time its meat does not lose its elasticity and does not resemble boiled one. And if you approach the process creatively, then ordinary tilapia in batter will become an exquisite and sophisticated dish that even the most picky gourmet will not disdain.

Just batter

Before frying the tilapia fillet in batter, cut it into small pieces and sprinkle with vegetable oil and lemon juice. You can sprinkle with dill and some kind of seasoning suitable for fish, and then leave for a third of an hour to saturate with aromas. For batter, five tablespoons of flour are kneaded with half a glass of milk, an egg, salt and a spoonful of melted butter. In a separate cup, the protein is whipped until foam - it is introduced into the mass just before cooking. How to cook tilapia in batter? There are two ways.

1. Just dip the fish into the prepared mass and put it on the frying pan.
2. Dip each piece in flour before dipping into batter. It is believed that this way the batter will drain less from the fish. But keep in mind that this increases the thickness of the "shell" in which the fillet is cooked. Not everyone likes an extra layer of flour.

The further process is simple: the fish is placed in a pan with vegetable oil and fried to a crust on all sides. To drain off excess oil, it is removed with a slotted spoon and folded into a colander.

Green batter

Tilapia tastes much more interesting in batter prepared according to a more complex recipe. For him, first of all, parsley and green onions are broken into a homogeneous dense mass in a blender. Half a glass of flour is diluted in the same volume of water. Only yolks are taken from eggs. All components are combined and mixed; you should get a semi-liquid dough. Further actions - as when using regular batter.

Beer batter

And do not think that the fish will become "alcoholic" from it. All degrees will evaporate during cooking. Such a "dough" is suitable for any fish, but we will cook tilapia in it. The recipe in batter with a beer base requires all its ingredients to be pre-chilled. Therefore, two eggs are separated into whites and yolks - and both cups are placed in the refrigerator for ten minutes. Next, mix a glass of flour with a pinch of curry and nutmeg, pour in half a bottle of light beer and two tablespoons of butter (you can take both vegetable and melted butter), add the yolks and mix. It is not necessary to bring to homogeneity right away - this can be done after adding proteins, but it is necessary to stir it so that the flour does not stick together. When the fish is prepared, and the oil in the pan is warmed up, protein foam is introduced into the batter, it is thoroughly mixed and immediately put into action.

Walnut batter

At first, it is prepared almost like the easiest one. Only the egg does not need to be divided into white and yolk: it is whipped whole. At the same time, walnuts (as much as flour) are fried dry in a frying pan, put into a coffee grinder and ground to crumbs (but not into dust!). In the absence of a coffee grinder, you can crush or use a meat grinder, but you have to work hard to get the crumb small enough. Flour is mixed with nuts, salt and spices are added, a beaten egg and water are poured in. Stir until you get something that looks like a pancake dough. You already know what to do next. Fillet of tilapia in batter with nuts turns out to be very fragrant and with a pleasant taste of the holiday.

Mayonnaise batter with cheese

And cheese separately, batter separately! And together it turns out very tasty and unusual. However, it is better to cook a whole carcass or fillet not cut into pieces according to this recipe, since the final steps are quite troublesome. For batter, beat three eggs, stir in three tablespoons of low-fat mayonnaise and add flour little by little. It should be thicker than in the previous recipe and resemble pancake dough. A block of cheese is rubbed into another bowl. The fish is dipped in batter with only one side, which is placed in the pan. While this barrel is browning, cheese is poured onto the second. As the time comes to turn, the cheese is poured with batter, and the carcass is quickly shifted to the other side. Sometimes it's not very good the first time, but tilapia in batter with cheese is worth developing manual dexterity.

Cheese batter

But in this recipe, cheese is introduced directly into the total mass. It is also advisable to remove the skin from the fish. But if this is difficult for you or you like tilapia with skin, you can leave it. Beat two eggs with two tablespoons of sour cream (can be replaced with mayonnaise), salt and pepper. A one-hundred-gram piece of cheese is rubbed as finely as possible and added to the "dough". It turns out pretty thick, but that shouldn't bother you. Tilapia is fried in batter in the same way as in any other.

Cheese and potato batter

He is generally original! For him, even liquid is not needed - neither water, nor milk, nor sour cream or mayonnaise. Four potatoes are peeled and rubbed coarsely, mixed with cheese (one hundred grams), also passed through a coarse grater, and a beaten egg. In this mass, fish is crumbled (depending on the type of cheese, you may have to press down with your hands) and fried in vegetable oil. Such tilapia in batter acquires a crispy and beautiful crust.