Guide to Cooking Fish

For the first time, cooking fish can be very intimidating between how to cook it and what type of fish to purchase. The good news is that cooking fish can be quite simple and very delicious. You can easily cook fish with minimal cooking tools and ingredients. Tilapia is a great fish to learn how to cook as a beginner fish. You can simply pick up flash frozen tilapia at most stores.

Pan frying is one of the easier ways to cook them. You will need a good quality stainless steel pan. First, you will need to thaw your fish filet in the refrigerator over night. When you are ready to cook, rince the filet off and pat it dry. Add a 1/4 cup flour in a shallow bowl with 1 tsp of pepper and 2 tsp of salt. Stir the flour mixture. Place the fish into the mixture and gently coat both sides. Shake excess flower off of the fish filet. Heat pan and about a quarter cup of coconut oil until hot. After oil is hot add your fish filet. Cook on each side for two and a half minutes. You will know the fish is done when the flour coating is crispy and the fish flakes easily with a fork.

Another great way to prepare fish is to bake it. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Place your thawed tilapia in a oven safe container with about a tablespoon of butter.

Sprinkle fish with salt, pepper, and dill weed. If you like lemon, you can cut it into rounds and place it on top of your filet. Cook in the oven for 20 minutes. You know it is done cooking when it easily flakes apart with a fork. If it is not done, simply put it back in the oven for another 5 minutes and check again.

This was only two easy ways to cook fish, however there are plenty of others. There are a ton of great resources on how to cook fish, books like Fish: The Complete Guide to Buying and Cooking, make a great place to start looking.

Don’t be intimidated by cooking fish it is actually really easy to do!