The Best and Most Popular Dishes Made Of
Tilapia
Not known to many, Tilapia
fish can be prepared in many unique and good-tasting dishes or recipes. It you
are interested in finding out the different foods that can be prepared with the
“Tilapia” fish that can be found in many continents and countries, check this
out.
The City of Munoz in Nueva Ecija is regarded as the
“tilapia capital of the Philippine”. It is the largest producers of “tilapia”
in the country and in Asia or perhaps in the
world. The agency that manages it is the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic
Resources or BFAR.
A former college student of
mine who used to work in BFAR gave me the chance to see the largest varieties
of tilapia – one of them is the “Red Tilapia”. It is also one of the best
tasting “cultured” tilapia.
Here are some of the best
foods you can prepare from Tilapia.
Pinapaitang Tilapia
Perhaps the most ridiculous
recipe you ever heard about tilapia is “pinapaitang tilapia”. So how it is
done? Only the innards of tilapias, the meat can be added too, are used in
cooking “pinapaitang tilapia”. The best tilapias for this recipe are those that
have been keep in fish cage for 5 days or more. Their stomachs and intestines
are already clean.
Selected stomach, intestine
and other internal organs of the tilapia are sautéed with finely chopped
ginger, garlic, onion and tomatoes and seasoned with salt, paminta or black
pepper, red chili and MSG. Simmer until fats appear. If you want it with soup –
simply add water and salt to taste.
Grilled or Inihaw na Tilapia
Grilled Tilapia is perhaps the
most common way and the best way to cook tilapia. Live tilapias are best
recommended if you like grilled tilapia. Simply pour salt in the live tilapias
and put them on the grill. Best
condiments include vinegar with crashed garlic and red chili seasoned with salt
and sodium glutamate and bagoong or fish sauce with calamansi juice and finely chopped
red chili.
Fried Tilapia
If you like fried tilapia,
simply remove the scales and innards. Pour some salt and dip fried. Best
condiments include catsup, vinegar with crashed garlic, paminta, salt and MSG
or bagoong with chili and calamansi juice.
Ginataang Tilapia or Coconut Milked
Tilapia
Ginataang Tilapia is one of
the best recipes you can cook out of this fish. Remove all the scales and
innards, cut the fish into serving pieces and put it in a pot. Add ingredients
such as patis or salt, paminta, stripped ginger, chopped onion, vinegar and
siling pansigang. Simmer for few minutes and add instant gata or kakang gata
you prepared for yourself. Mustasa or petsay leaves can be added also.
Stuffed Tilapia
Stuffed Tilapia is one of the
most recent and favorite ways to cook tilapia. The fish is cleaned well and
stuff such as chopped tomatoes, onions and cabbage seasoned with salt and
seasoning are put inside the tilapia’s empty stomach. It is then grilled and
served.
Sweet and Sour Tilapia
Remove all the scales and
innards of the animal and dip fried until brown. Sautee ginger, garlic and
onion then pour a mixture of flour with paminta, sugar, MSG, soy sauce then add
fried tilapia and simmer for minutes. Bell pepper and carrots can also be
added.
Sinigang na Tilapia, Paksiw na
Tilapia, Daing na Tilapia, Steamed Tilapia and Pinaputok na Tilapia are also good
recipes and are common among fish.
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