Enjoy This recipe created with Progresso® bread crumbs.
Seared Lemon Pepper Tilapia
- Prep Time 35 min
- Total 40 min
- Servings 6
- Ingredients 19
Ingredients
Creamy Pumpkin Seed Dressing
- 1/4 cup champagne vinegar (or other high-quality white wine vinegar)
- 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 1/2 shallot, finely chopped
- 2 teaspoons finely chopped fresh thyme leaves
- 2 egg yolks, from pasteurized eggs
- 1 cup pumpkin seed oil or extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 tablespoon ice water, if needed
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt, preferably gray salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1/4 cup pumpkin seeds, toasted lightly in oven
Tilapia
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 2 cups Progresso™ lemon pepper panko crispy bread crumbs
- 6 tilapia fillets, 5 to 6 oz each
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/2 lemon, cut into 6 wedges
Salad
- 3 small heads of butter lettuce, washed and dried well, torn
- 1/2 cup pomegranate seeds

Make With
Progresso Breadcrumbs
Instructions
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Step1In food processor, place the vinegar, mustard, shallot, thyme and pasteurized egg yolks. Cover; process until smooth. With the machine running, add the 1 cup pumpkin seed oil and then the 1 cup olive oil, 1 tablespoon at a time. If the mixture gets too thick, add the 1 tablespoon ice water. Season with the salt and pepper. Stir in pumpkin seeds. Refrigerate while making tilapia.
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Step2Place the flour, 2 eggs and the bread crumbs in 3 separate shallow dishes. Dip each fillet in flour then in eggs and finally, dredge on both sides in bread crumbs, shaking off the excess.
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Step3Heat 2 skillets over high heat. Divide 3 tablespoons olive oil evenly between skillets. When hot, add the fish; reduce heat to medium, and cook until nicely browned, about 5 minutes. Turn fish and cook on the second side until the fish is done throughout (test with a fork), about 4 minutes, depending on thickness.
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Step4Transfer the fish to 6 individual plates. Garnish with the lemon wedges. Toss the lettuce with a portion of the dressing; divide among plates of fish. Spoon some of the additional dressing over the fish; sprinkle pomegranate seeds over all, and enjoy.
Nutrition
1180
Calories
97g
Total Fat
43g
Protein
34g
Total Carbohydrate
3g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 1180
- Calories from Fat
- 870
- Total Fat
- 97g
- 149%
- Saturated Fat
- 17g
- 83%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 230mg
- 76%
- Sodium
- 990mg
- 41%
- Potassium
- 830mg
- 24%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 34g
- 11%
- Dietary Fiber
- 2g
- 9%
- Sugars
- 3g
- Protein
- 43g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 60%
- 60%
- Vitamin C
- 6%
- 6%
- Calcium
- 8%
- 8%
- Iron
- 25%
- 25%
Exchanges:
2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 1 Vegetable; 4 Very Lean Meat; 1 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 18 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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