Crab Stuffed Tilapia

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 scallion
• 3 tablespoons butter
• 6 fresh mint leaves
• 1 cup lump crabmeat
• 1/2 cup cracker crumb (ritz or saltine)
• 1/2 lemon
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1/3 cup fresh parmesan cheese (grated)
• 6 tilapia fillets

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 400*.
• 2 slice bulb part of onion reserving greens for later.
• 3 in a small sauce pan, melt butter and cook onion slices until clear. set aside.
• 4 mince the mint leaves. set aside.
• 5 in a mixing bowl, use a fork to shred crab meat to a fine texture.
• 6 mix in mint, cracker crumbs, juice of 1/2 lemon, olive oil, and 1/4 cup parmesan cheese. reserve the remaining cheese for later.
• 7 spray the bottom of a 9x13 glass baking pan.
• 8 shape 6 balls from the crab mixture and place evenly throughout the pan.
• 9 carefully lay each tilapia fillet on a crab ball. if necessary, split the ends of the fillet in order to wrap around.
• 10 sprinkle remaining cheese across tops of fish.
• 11 bake 20-25 minutes or until the largest peice of fish easily flakes with fork.
• 12 slice scallion greens reserved from step one. sprinkle around fish to garnish.