Thursday, April 24, 2008

i'm kicking myself again

i didn't take any pictures of the lunch i just made for gabe and i. here's what it was... blackened tilapia sandwich with cumin sour cream and pico de gallo
here's what i did...
to begin, i made the cumin/oregano sour cream by mixing about a half of a cup of sour cream with a teaspoon-ish amount of cumin and the same of dried oregano. then i set them aside in the fridge to cool back down.
meanwhile, i got out some lettuce leaves and some pico de gallo (chopped tomatoes, red onion, cilantro and jalapenos) that i bought in the deli section of the grocery store. i had already spiced the pico de gallo up a bit with some more chopped jalapenos just a few days ago, so that was all set and very spicy. (usually i make my own pico de gallo, but it's just so easy to buy it!)
i had a frozen tilapia which i thawed. i took two fillets, dipped them in a little bit of melted butter (i try to use butter sparingly, but with a light fish, you almost have to because there isn't much flavor in the fish to begin with) then dipped it in a mixture of garlic powder ( i know, i know, i'm not the biggest fan of garlic powder, but fresh garlic would have burned up in my grill pan), zatarain's blackened seasoning, salt and pepper. then i grilled them on high in my grill pan so the outsides would get nice black grill marks. they only take a few minutes on each side.
while the fish was grilling, i brushed the insides of kaiser rolls with some olive oil and placed them in the grill pan as well, just to heat them up, make them a little crunchy and get some nice grill marks.
when the fish was done, i spread the cumin sour cream on both ends of the roll, put a whole fillet of the blackened tilapia on each heel of the roll, then piled on some pico de gallo and some lettuce leaves and placed the crown of the roll on top. it was pretty amazing. i wish i could have gotten a picture!!!

1 comment:

cortny said...

you need your own cooking show! rachel ray, watch out!