Steamed Tilapia Recipe

How To Cook Steamed Tilapia Recipe 

Steamed Tilapia Recipe - is stuffed with ginger, tomatoes garlic onions and other spices. Though simple, this recipe is beneficial to your health. Fish is rich in Omega 3 or fatty acids.

Fish is a low calorie food that is also low in fat. Recent studies also concluded that eating fish regularly can cut the risk of death from heart disease by a third. There were even studies claiming that eating fish can lessen the risk of Prostate Cancer, Depression, and Inflammation.

Steamed Tilapia Recipe Ingredients:

• 1 kg. Tilapia
• 100 g. Ginger julienne
• 50 g. Garlic thinly slices
• 100 g. Red onion slices
• 30 g. Green chili julienne
• 100 g. Tomatoes round slices
• 50 g. Lemon grass, white part only, chopped
• ¼ cup Calamansi juice
• ¼ cup Olive oil
• 24 inches Banana leaves
• 1 tbsp. Salt
• 1 tsp. Crushed black peppercorn

Cooking Instructions:

1. Season tilapia with salt, pepper, calamansi juice.
2. Lay banana leaves on chopping board. Drizzle with olive oil.
3. Fill inside half portion of ginger, garlic, red onion, green chili, tomatoes, lemongrass.
4. Place on top remaining half portion of ginger, garlic, red onion, green chili, tomato, lemon grass. Season with salt and pepper and drizzle with olive oil.
5. Wrap with banana leaves, then place in steamer for 1 hour or until done.

History

Tilapia go by many names. The aquaculture of Nile tilapia goes back to Ancient Egypt, where it was represented by the hieroglyph K1, 
K1
of the Gardiner List.
Tilapia were one of the three main types of fish caught in Biblical times from the Sea of Galilee. At that time they were called musht, or commonly now even "St. Peter's fish". The name "St. Peter's fish" comes from the story in the Gospel of Matthew about the apostle Peter catching a fish that carried a coin in its mouth, though the passage does not name the fish. While the name also applies to Zeus faber, a marine fish not found in the area, a few tilapia species (Sarotherodon galilaeus galilaeus and others) are found in the Sea of Galilee, where the author of the Gospel of Matthew recounts the event took place. These species have been the target of small-scale artisanal fisheries in the area for thousands of years.
The common name tilapia is based on the name of the cichlid genus Tilapia, which is itself a latinisation of thiape, the Tswana word for "fish". Scottish zoologist Andrew Smith named the genus in 1840.

Recipe Source: Kusina master

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