Best 5 Rachael Rays Tilapia With Tomatillo Sauce Recipes

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Indulge in the tantalizing flavors of Rachael Ray's Tilapia with Tomatillo Sauce, a culinary masterpiece that harmoniously blends zesty Mexican and classic American flavors. This delectable dish features tender tilapia fillets enveloped in a vibrant green tomatillo sauce, bursting with tangy tomatillos, roasted poblano peppers, and aromatic cilantro. The recipe offers a unique twist with the addition of a creamy avocado relish, introducing a cool and refreshing contrast to the spicy sauce. Embark on a culinary adventure with Rachael Ray's Tilapia with Tomatillo Sauce, a perfect choice for a flavorful and satisfying meal.

In addition to the main recipe, the article presents an array of culinary delights that complement the tilapia dish. You'll find recipes for a zesty tomatillo salsa, perfect for dipping or adding a pop of flavor to your favorite dishes. Spice enthusiasts can relish the fiery roasted poblano pepper salsa, bringing a smoky and intense heat to your meals. For a creamy and refreshing counterpart, try the avocado relish, an ideal accompaniment to grilled meats, tacos, and sandwiches. With these diverse recipes, you'll have a flavorful fiesta right at your fingertips.

Here are our top 5 tried and tested recipes!

TILAPIA WITH BALSAMIC BROWNED BUTTER AND CREAMY FARFALLE WITH BACON, TOMATO AND PEAS



Tilapia with Balsamic Browned Butter and Creamy Farfalle with Bacon, Tomato and Peas image

Provided by Rachael Ray : Food Network

Categories     main-dish

Time 1h

Yield 4 servings

Number Of Ingredients 17

Salt
1 pound farfalle, bow ties
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
5 slices center cut bacon, chopped
1 medium onion, chopped
2 to 3 grated garlic cloves
1 bay leaf
12 white mushrooms, thinly sliced
1 can San Marzano tomatoes
4 (6 to 8-ounce) tilapia fillets
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 (10-ounce) box frozen peas
1/4 cup mascarpone cheese
3 tablespoons butter
1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
1/2 cup basil leaves, shredded or torn

Steps:

  • Heat a pot of water to a boil, salt the water and cook pasta to al dente.
  • Heat a deep large skillet with 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil over medium-high heat. Add bacon and crisp 3 to 4 minutes. Add onions, garlic, bay leaf and mushrooms, season with salt and pepper and cook until tender but not browned, 5 minutes. Add tomatoes, crush them up with a wooden spoon and simmer 15 minutes on low heat.
  • Season the fish with salt and pepper. Dust fish with flour and shake off excess.
  • Heat 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Cook fish 4 minutes on each side.
  • While fish cooks, stir peas into sauce, return to bubble and stir in mascarpone cheese. Adjust seasoning.
  • Remove fish from skillet to a platter and cover loosely with foil to keep warm. Reduce heat to medium and add butter to pan. Brown butter, 2 to 3 minutes, stir in balsamic and simmer 1 to 2 minutes to reduce by half. Pour the brown butter and vinegar over fish.
  • Drain pasta, toss with sauce and wilt basil into pasta.
  • Serve fish with pasta alongside.

TILAPIA WITH TOMATILLOS AND AVOCADO FILLED WITH MAQUE CHOUX



Tilapia with Tomatillos and Avocado filled with Maque Choux image

Provided by Rachael Ray : Food Network

Categories     main-dish

Time 30m

Yield 4 servings

Number Of Ingredients 24

1 1/4 to 1 1/2 pounds tilapia, 4 fillets
Coarse salt
Ground pepper
1 teaspoon ground cumin, eyeball it
1/2 teaspoon sweet paprika, eyeball it
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, 2 turns of the pan
1 lime, halved
1/2 medium red onion, chopped
1 jalapeno or serrano pepper, seeded and finely chopped
2 or 3 large cloves garlic, finely chopped
8 to 10 tomatillos, husks peeled and diced
1/2 bottled pale beer
2 tablespoons chopped cilantro leaves, a palmful, plus a few sprigs for garnish
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil, 1 turn of the pan
1/2 red onion, chopped
1 jalapeno, seeded and finely chopped
1 small red bell pepper, seeded and chopped
4 ears fresh corn on the cob, husked
A sprinkle sugar
Dash cayenne pepper
Salt
2 tablespoons butter
2 ripe avocado
1 lime, juiced

Steps:

  • Season fish with salt, pepper, cumin, paprika. Heat a nonstick skillet over medium high heat. Add 1 tablespoon oil, 1 turn of the pan. Heat an ovenproof serving plate in a warm oven. Saute fish 3 minutes on each side or until opaque. Squeeze the juice of 1/2 lime over the fish and carefully slide the fillets onto warm platter. Cover the fish to keep it warm. Return pan to heat and add remaining tablespoon of oil, 1 turn of the pan. Over medium high heat, quickly saute the red onion, jalapeno and the garlic. Saute a minute or so, add the diced tomatillos with seeds and juices. Season mixture with coarse salt and saute the mixture of vegetables 5 minutes.
  • Once you get your sauce working, get a second skillet hot over moderate heat for your maque choux. Add 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil (1 turn of the pan,) chopped onion, jalapeno and red bell pepper. Saute 2 or 3 minutes. Working on a plate to catch the milky juices, scrape corn off the cob. Break up the kernels and pour into the skillet. Combine corn with peppers and onions. Season with a sprinkle of sugar, a dash of cayenne pepper and salt. When mixture bubbles, reduce heat to simmer. Cut butter into pieces and stir into corn mixture. Allow mixture to simmer and cook until creamy, 5 to 7 minutes.
  • While corn is working, go back to your sauce for the fish. Add the beer and the juice of 1/2 lime and cilantro to the pan. Simmer sauce 5 minutes longer, then spoon hot sauce down over the fish filets. Garnish platter with a few extra sprigs of the cilantro.
  • Cut avocados in 1/2 lengthwise and remove pits. Squeeze lime juice over the avocados to keep them from browning and season them with a little coarse salt. Arrange on the serving plate.
  • To serve, fill the avocados with maque choux, allowing the corn to spill down and over the sides of the avocado onto the serving platter. The ripe avocado is spooned away from its skin with bites of creamy, warm corn and peppers. Place the avocados alongside garnished fish and enjoy with lime sorbet topped with raspberries and Grand Marnier.

CREAMY TOMATO SOUP AND ITALIAN PATTY MELTS



Creamy Tomato Soup and Italian Patty Melts image

Provided by Rachael Ray : Food Network

Categories     main-dish

Time 35m

Yield 4 servings

Number Of Ingredients 25

4 cups whole milk
3 (14-ounce) cans diced tomatoes, drained
2 rounded tablespoons tomato paste
1 medium onion, chopped
Salt and pepper
1 teaspoon sugar
4 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons butter, cut in pieces
1 stalk of celery, coarsely chopped
1 clove garlic
1/2 cup Watercress and Hazelnut Pesto or store bought prepared basil pesto, available on dairy aisle
12 ounces watercress, stems removed
1/2 cup hazelnuts, toasted
1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil, eyeball it
2 cloves cracked garlic
1/4 teaspoon ground or grated nutmeg
Salt and pepper
1/2 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano
Extra-virgin olive oil, for drizzling, plus 1 tablespoon
4 sweet Italian sausage patties, 1/4 pound each, available in packaged meat case of the market
1 cubanelle long sweet Italian light green pepper, seeded and sliced
1 medium yellow skinned onion, sliced
Salt and pepper
8 slices Italian bread, or white bread
8 slices deli-sliced provolone

Steps:

  • Heat the milk over moderate heat in a medium pot. Put tomatoes, tomato paste, onions, salt and pepper, sugar, flour, butter, celery into a food processor and grind until smooth. Pour mixture into milk and raise heat to bring soup to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 15 minutes. While soup cooks, make pesto and sammies.
  • Fill the food processor with watercress, loosely packed. Add hazelnuts, 1/2 of the oil and garlic cloves to the watercress in the processor. Add nutmeg, salt and pepper to the processor bowl, set lid in place and pulse grind the mixture into a thick paste. Add any remaining watercress to the processor and grind into the paste by pulsing the processor again. Transfer watercress paste to a bowl. Stir in the remaining oil and the cheese. Taste pesto sauce and adjust seasonings.
  • Heat a griddle over medium high heat. Drizzle the pan with extra-virgin olive oil and add the patties and cook 5 minutes on each side. Remove from the griddle and add another tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil and the peppers and onions. Season the peppers and onions and cook until just tender, 5 minutes. Remove them from the griddle. Wipe the griddle clean and reduce heat to medium low. Assemble sandwiches: place 4 slices of bread down, top with 1/4 each of the peppers onions, then a slice of cheese, a cooked sausage patty, another slice of cheese and then place bread on top. Add butter to griddle and cook sammy melts 2 or 3 minutes on each side until golden and cheese is melted. Press with spatula as sammies cook or set another heavy skillet on sammies to weigh them down.
  • Pour soup into shallow bowls and add a couple of rounded spoonfuls of pesto to each dish and stir it into the soup. Cut the patty melts corner to corner and dip in the soup as you eat.

RACHAEL RAY'S TILAPIA WITH TOMATILLO SAUCE



Rachael Ray's Tilapia With Tomatillo Sauce image

From Rachael Ray 30-Minute Meals 2. If you can't find tilapia, red snapper should do. Have not tried this yet. Serve with recipe #112774.

Provided by BecR2400

Categories     Tilapia

Time 30m

Yield 4 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 13

4 tilapia fillets (1 1/4 to 1 1/2 pounds total)
salt & freshly ground black pepper, to taste
1 teaspoon ground cumin (eyeball it)
1/2 teaspoon sweet paprika (eyeball it)
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil (divided use)
1 lime, juice of
1/2 medium red onion, chopped
1 jalapenos or 1 serrano pepper, seeded and finely chopped
2 -3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
8 -10 tomatillos, peeled and diced, with juice
6 ounces pale beer
2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro, a palmful, plus
3 -5 sprigs fresh cilantro, for garnish

Steps:

  • Season the tilapia on both sides with salt, pepper, cumin and paprika.
  • Preheat a nonstick skillet over medium-high heat.
  • Add 1 tablespoon olive oil to the hot skillet and saute tilapia 3 minutes on each side, turning carefully with a thin spatula.
  • Squeeze the juice of half the lime over the fish, and transfer fillets to a warm serving platter.
  • Return the skillet to the stove over medium-high heat.
  • Add 1 tablespoon olive oil, red oniion, jalapeno and garlic, and saute 1 or 2 minutes, then add the tomatillos.
  • Season with salt and pepper and saute another 1 or 2 minutes.
  • Add the beer and the juice of the remaining lime half, and bring the sauce to a boil.
  • Reduce the heat to low and simmer 5 minutes.
  • Add cilantro, and adjust salt and pepper to taste.
  • Spoon hot tomatillo sauce over the fish and garnish with sprigs of cilantro.
  • Serve with recipe #112774, if desired.

TILAPIA WITH GRILLED TOMATILLO SALSA & SERRANO MAYO



Tilapia with Grilled Tomatillo Salsa & Serrano Mayo image

Tender, mild tilapia is the perfect fillet to top with flavorful roasted tomatillo salsa and a blend of serrano chiles and mayonnaise.

Provided by My Food and Family

Categories     Salsa Recipes

Time 27m

Yield Makes 8 servings

Number Of Ingredients 8

10 tomatillos (1 lb.), cut in half
1 small onion, cut lengthwise in half, then crosswise into 1/2-inch-thick slices
2 small serrano chiles
2 cloves garlic, unpeeled
1/4 cup KRAFT Zesty Italian Dressing
8 tilapia fillets (2 lb.)
2 Tbsp. olive oil
1/2 cup KRAFT Light Mayo

Steps:

  • Heat grill to medium heat.
  • Thread tomatillos, onions, chiles and garlic onto skewers; brush with dressing. Grill 10 to 12 min. or until vegetables are tender, turning after 6 min. Meanwhile, brush fish with oil. Add to grill; cook 3 min. on each side or until fish flakes easily with fork.
  • Remove ingredients from skewers. Peel garlic; chop finely. Mix 1/3 of the garlic with mayo in small bowl. Remove stems from chiles; finely chop chiles. Stir half the chiles into mayo mixture; set aside. Chop tomatillos and onions; place in separate small bowl. Add remaining garlic and chiles; mix well.
  • Serve fish topped with tomatillo and mayo mixtures.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 230, Fat 13 g, SaturatedFat 2.5 g, TransFat 0 g, Cholesterol 55 mg, Sodium 230 mg, Carbohydrate 0 g, Fiber 1 g, Sugar 0 g, Protein 24 g

Tips:

  • Use a heavy-bottomed skillet: This will help to prevent the fish from sticking and will also help to evenly cook the fish.
  • Season the fish well: Don't be afraid to use plenty of salt and pepper. You can also add other spices, such as garlic powder, onion powder, or paprika.
  • Cook the fish over medium-high heat: This will help to sear the fish and create a nice crust.
  • Don't overcrowd the skillet: If you are cooking multiple pieces of fish, make sure to leave enough space between them so that they can cook evenly.
  • Cook the fish until it is just cooked through: The fish should be opaque in the center and should flake easily with a fork.
  • Serve the fish immediately: Tilapia is best served hot, with the tomatillo sauce spooned over the top.

Conclusion:

Rachael Ray's Tilapia with Tomatillo Sauce is a quick and easy recipe that is perfect for a weeknight meal. The fish is cooked in a flavorful tomatillo sauce, and the whole dish can be made in under 30 minutes. The tomatillo sauce is made with fresh tomatillos, onions, garlic, and chiles, and it has a bright, tangy flavor that pairs perfectly with the mild tilapia. This dish is sure to be a hit with your family and friends.

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