Clean Eating Lemon Pesto Swai Fish

Lemon Pesto Swai Fish Filets

Serving Size: 1

1 Swai Fish Filet (other fish can be substituted such as tilapia, cod or halibut)

1 Tsp Pesto (light oiled or no oiled preferred)

½ a lemon sliced

Preheat oven 400 Degrees F.

In a small baking dish or cookie sheet with sides line with non-stick foil. Place thawed fish filet on top of the foil. Spread the prepared pesto on top of the fish filet. Layer the lemon slices on top of the pesto.

Bake 20-25 min until flaky and fork tender on thickest part of filet. Serve with a mixed green salad, or mixed vegetable blend with cauliflower, broccoli, and carrots. **At least 2 cups worth of vegetables. Enjoy!

Clean Eating Lemon Ms. Dash Tilapia

Lemon Ms. Dash Tilapia Filet

Serving Size: 1

1 - 3-4 oz fish filet

1 tsp Ms. Dash (Season to taste)

1 Lemon, sliced

Place fish filet on non-stick foil. Sprinkle with Ms. Dash. Place Lemon wedges on top. Bake 400 Degrees F. for 20 min (until fish is fork tender and flaky). Remove and serve over mixed green salad with fresh spinach, cucumbers, red cabbage, cherry tomatoes, and carrots.

Pesto Tilapia with a Pesto Alfredo Orzo

Tonight was the ending of a very busy day. I am surprised that my brain and my head hasn't exploded... I am trying to find a car we can afford after my vehicle accident. So, I also started my last term towards my associates degree, with three classes. On top of that I had a job interview today, first one in two years. It felt really good. Then we had spanish club and liberty bowl club for the boys after school, then pack meeting for cub scouts. And my husband is working late tonight. So dinner, is not the typical dinner, but still some of it is mostly scratch. The fish was delicious, the orzo was very creamy and flavorful.

I am really loving pesto. I guess its some sort of pesto faze but it is so tasty. And I'm loving all of the delicious things that go with it.

Ingredients for Pesto Tilapia
7 tilapia filets
1 1/2 cup italian seasoned breadcrumbs
4 Tbsp olive oil and 4 Tbsp margarine or butter
1/2 tsp of pesto per tilapia filets
Salt and pepper to taste

Directions:
* do not dry the tilapia filets. Mix salt and pepper in the italian seasoned breadcrumbs, then dredge the tilapia filets in the italian breadcrumbs, (their natural moisture will help the breadcrumbs stick). Then heat the oil and butter/margarine in a saucepan til bubbly. Then add the filets to the bubbly oil mixture and don't move until they are browning on the edges, then flip the fish and continue to cook one or two minutes longer. (the filets cook fast). I placed them on a foil lined jelly roll pan (cookie sheet) and then spread the pesto on to the fish and place in an oven at 325F for about 5 minutes to make sure the fish is nice and flaky.

Ingredients for the Pesto Alfredo Orzo
1 lb orzo
1 bottle garlic parmesan Alfredo (ragu)
1 Tbsp pesto (a little goes a long way)

Directions:
Cook the orzo according to package directions or until your taste. Then drain off the water. Add the pesto and Alfreo sauce to the same pan, stir. Then add the orzo and stir to incorporate. and serve warm.

Delicious and flavorful!

I loved it, One of my son's had two pieces of fish, my husband had 3 pieces. I'd say the fish was a HIT! and then the Orzo is delicious and creamy! a win for a quick dinner :)

Just what I needed to end the day!

Lemon Pepper Parmesan Crusted Tilapia with Mushroom Creme Orzo with Sweetened Ranch butter Corn

Tonights dinner was my attempt to try to make a healthy, delicious dinner. My husband LOVES fish/seafood... I mean REALLY LOVES it. So I have been trying to purchase more and more seafood/fish, to help him eat healthier and to help me lose weight... That's my hope anyways. So I have been trying to find ways to make fish taste good. I haven't really made a lot of fish in my life that isn't fried. Which to me makes it lose it's healthiness. Today is my attempt to have a "fake" fried fish. The topping didn't stay on and it was so flaky that it fell apart when I was trying to transfer it from the pan to the serving plate and our plates.

I got HUGE props by my hubby that it was really good and just what he needed when he came home. It came right out of the oven 2 minutes before he got home. Talk about perfect timing. I was going to make brown rice but I didn't really want brown rice. So, I decided orzo would be good with some mushroom sauce. I know I didn't have a lot of color variety on my plate for this picture, but it was all yummy.

Ingredients for Tilapia

6 Tilapia filets

1 bottle lemon pepper 30 min marinade

2 bags of shake and bake parmesan cheese

Directions for Tilapia

In a gallon size ziploc freezer bag, pour the lemon pepper marinade into the bag. Before you add the tilapia filets pierce them with a fork throughout the fillet, then place them in the ziploc bag. Set in the fridge for 30 min or so, (the longer you marinade the more flavorful the fish).

Remove the fish after the allotted time. Next you pour the parmesan shake n bake into another clean gallon size freezer bag. Then one by one toss the tilapia filets and shake to cover with the crust mixture. Then place on a pam sprayed cookie sheet. Bake in a preheated 350F oven for 20-25 minutes until flaky. Serve Warm

Mushroom Creme Orzo

Ingredients:

Orzo pasta - aprox enough for 5 people

1 can cream of mushroom with roasted garlic soup

1/4 cup of half and half

salt and pepper to taste

Once you cook the orzo pasta to al dente', add the mushroom soup and the half and half, salt and pepper. Season to taste and then warm, and serve.

Sweetened Ranch Butter Corn

2 cans of corn

3 Tbsp sugar

2Tbsp Ranch

3 Tbsp butter

Add the corn, sugar, ranch and butter all at once and cook on the stove stirring frequently until bubbly and heated through... Serve warm.

This was a HIT... all of them. I hope you enjoy them as much as we did.