Honey Mustard Tilapia with Onions and Broccoli

I was a vegetarian for more than 10 years of my life.

During that time, I lost my taste for a lot of foods that I once enjoyed.

Most seafood is in that category. I used to love all seafood - fish, lobster, scallops, you name it. My preference just never came back, no matter how often I forced myself to try.

Last fall, I tasted tilapia for the first time. I was at a banquet buffet; I only knew it was pecan-crusted something. It was delicious.

Since then, I've tried tilapia a few times, just to make sure, and I've liked it every time. I decided it was time for the next step.

I told Joe that we should have tilapia for dinner some night.

I found this recipe in Everyday Food magazine. It used some other fishier-tasting fish, but we always make adjustments anyway.

Honey Mustard Tilapia with Onions and Broccoli

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Ingredients

  

• 1 tablespoon honey
• 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
• 3 tablespoons white wine vinegar
• ¼ cup plus 1-2 tablespoons olive oil divided
• 1 medium onion thinly sliced into rings
• 1 cup fresh breadcrumbs (if you aren't saving the heels of your bread loves in the freezer, start now! You can either buy day-old bread or leave a few slices out on the table to get stale.)
• 1 pound tilapia filets
• 1 pound broccoli florets cut into bite-sized pieces (or however you like your broccoli)

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 450.
• Make a vinaigrette by whisking together honey, mustard, vinegar, and oil.
• Toss the broccoli in 1-2 tablespoons of olive oil (or whatever oil you use at home). Cover a shallow baking dish with the oily broccoli, and roast it for 10 to 15 minutes, or until the florets are starting to brown and get soft. Toss roasted broccoli in 2 tablespoons of vinaigrette; set aside.
• Toss onion with 2 tablespoons of vinaigrette. Arrange in a single layer on a bar pan (or other shallow baking dish). Bake 5 minutes.
• While the onions are baking, add 2 tablespoons of the vinaigrette to the breadcrumbs. Pour another tablespoon of the vinaigrette into a shallow dish. Coat each piece of tilapia with vinaigrette, then top it with breadcrumbs.
• Place the now-breaded tilapia filets on top of the partially-cooked onions. Bake until the fish is thoroughly cooked, about 7 minutes.
• To serve, top the fish with onions and a healthy heap of roasted broccoli.

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