Soy Ginger Tilapia
Tilapia is a great choice when you’re looking for a quick and easy (healthy too!) meal. With just 8 simple ingredients (including the fish), you can have this dish on your dinner table in less than 30 minutes!
For a healthier alternative, use low sodium soy sauce in place of the regular soy sauce and oyster sauce if you want to cut back on sodium.
Give my recipe a try. I think you’ll like it. 🙂
Soy-Ginger Tilapia
Ingredients:
16 small tilapia filets (I buy them frozen, skinned and deboned)
1 cup soy sauce
1/2 cup red wine vinegar
3 tablespoons oyster sauce
3 tablespoons honey
1 tablespoon minced garlic
1 tablespoon grated ginger
1 bunch green onions (about 7 stalks), thinly sliced
Directions:
Prepare the tilapia:
I buy my tilapia frozen. They come about 16 small filets to a bag, with each filet individually wrapped. If you buy the fish frozen like I do, thaw them out, then remove each filet from the wrapping. Rinse the filets then place them in a shallow baking dish. I use two 9×13″ baking pans, placing 8 filets in each one. It’s okay of the filets overlap a bit.
Now that you’ve prepared the fish, make the soy-ginger sauce.
It’s also a good time to preheat your oven to 375 degrees F.
Make the Soy Ginger Sauce:
In a small microwave-safe mixing bowl, combine the soy sauce, red wine vinegar, oyster sauce, honey, garlic, and ginger. Microwave the mixture for one minute — you want to heat the mixture so that you can easily dissolve the honey. After heating, stir with a fork to combine all the ingredients.
Add the green onions; stir to combine.
Pour the mixture over the tilapia filets. It may look like too much sauce, but trust me, you want the filets covered in the mixture so that it soaks into the fish during baking. That, and you’ll want some of the extra sauce to pour over your rice! 🙂
Bake the fish at 375 degrees F. for 12 to 15 minutes. This fish cooks fast, so check for doneness at the 12-minute mark. The fish is white, and flakes easily with a fork when done.
Serve with hot white rice, and don’t forget to pour some of the delicious soy-ginger sauce over the rice too!
ENJOY!
Hot danged, the dishes shown here on Annie’s Kitchen all look absolutely delish and inviting – doesn’t matter (am partial to fish, especially tilapia, however, never dressed up like that, makes my mouth water). Listen, been meaning to ask this/just curious – where’re you guys located – and who’s “Annie” from Annie’s Kitchen? Are you formerly from Guam – from the “Merfalen-Guevara” family?. How ’bout a small bio from you; we’re interested!! Wonderful website – very colorful – love it.
Hi Rose! I’m in Colorado, and yes, I’m a Merfalen. The Merfalen-Guevara family are my relatives.