Monday, May 31, 2010

MEAL: Clara’s Lime Garlic Tilapia

Ingredients

  • 8-9 tilapia fillets
  • 3 lemons (juice)
  • 1 tablespoon butter, melted
  • 3 large garlic cloves (crushed)
  • 10 leaves of fresh basil
  • 1 big juicy orange
  • ½ onion (finely chopped)
  • Garlic salt
  • pepper to taste

Directions

Marinating:

1. In a bowl mix all the lemon juice, the squeezed orange (make sure to leave some pulps) the crushed garlic, the butter, the basil, the pepper, the onion and the crushed garlic.

2. Rub the fillets with garlic salt.

3. Then brush the fillets with some of the marinating sauce.

4. Spray a baking dish with non-stick cooking spray.

  1. Place fillets in baking dish. Pour the marinating sauce on the fillets

6. Let marinate overnight.

Cooking

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
  2. Bake in preheated oven until the fish is white and flakes when pulled apart with a fork, about 30 minutes.

MEAL: Clara’s Butter Garlic Chicken


Ingredients

· 5 Chicken breasts (either whole or in chunks)

· 1 cup of melted butter

· 5 garlic cloves (crushed)

· 2 tablespoons of seasoning sauce

· 1 onion (either chopped or minced)

· 2 oz of flour (this is to thicken the sauce that will be made of the butter)

· 2 teaspoons of fresh mint

· 1 clear plastic bag

Instructions

Marinating:

1. Place the clear plastic bag over a bowl.

2. In the plastic bag, pour the melted butter, the chopped onions, the garlic, the seasoning sauce, the mint and the flour.

3. Make small cuts on the breasts (if they are whole)

4. Place the breasts in the bag and tie the bag.

5. Let sit for an hour. Play around with the bag for 3 minutes every 15 minutes.

Cooking:

1. Place the breast and sauce in a large frying pan.

2. Let cook for 45 minutes in low or medium heat and stir repeatedly.