Coconut Crusted Oven Fried Fish

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  • Number of Servings: 4
Ingredients
Tilapia (about 10oz)1/4 c yellow cornmeal3/4 cup shredded coconut (unsweetened)Black Pepper, Basil, Salt - to taste2 tbsp. Olive Oil
Directions
- Heat oven to 400 degrees
- Use olive oil or cooking spray to grease a baking pan.
- If fish was frozen, make sure it is thawed.
- Combine coconut, corn meal, and spices in a shallow dish or plate
- Dip fish in cold water, lightly shake off excess
- Place fish in "breading dish" and cover completely on both sides
- Place fish in baking pan
- Bake for 15-20 minutes
- To brown coconut, you can put oven on broil, but watch closely it will burn very quickly

Goes great with a salad and Oven Fries

Makes roughly 4 servings

Number of Servings: 4

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user MERNDA85.

Servings Per Recipe: 4
Nutritional Info Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 197.3
  • Total Fat: 13.1 g
  • Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
  • Sodium: 44.5 mg
  • Total Carbs: 8.2 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 1.9 g
  • Protein: 14.0 g

Member Reviews
  • DEBBIECRAVENS
    I'm looking forward to trying this. I do like coconut. - 3/29/17
  • WEEDERSGRL1
    I have not tried this yet... but it is on my TO-DO list for sure! - 2/5/17
  • KLUTZY68
    I want to thank you so much for this recipe! One of my favorite frozen foods is coconut shrimp (Margartaville, I think), but I rarely buy it because it's extremely expensive. Now I can try making it myself! I will come back and rate after I do. - 5/28/13