Tilapia Fish Nuggets

Posted by Raje on Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 12:05 am. 0 Comments.

Fish Nuggets

Fish or Chicken nuggets are one of Aditya’s favorite snacks. I try to keep some on hand all the time. Over the weekend I made some in bulk and froze them. One thing I have learnt is that for me at least bulk cooking though not easy is indeed a life saver. I can manage to cook only one dish or item in bulk in a week. And that gets over too fast if I start cooking before lunch time. So this time I started my cooking session after lunch. Every one was a little too full and only managed to snack on a few of the nuggets. Also I made sure I froze them before dinner time. The week before I had made the Teriyaki chicken balls which had ended up being lunch and dinner the day I made them, and not much was left to freeze.

Cooking a whole pack of Tilapia from COSTCO took me about three hours. This time also included interruptions of tending to the family and a half hour major break while I put Ujwala to sleep. I was happy with the results though. I have a gallon size Ziploc full of fish nuggets which should last a while for the occasional school lunch and evening snack. I had planned on making eggplant nuggets too, but never got around to it. I want to try and make them before Friday though as I was planning to take them for the Ladies Bunco night coming up.

The recipe for fish nuggets below is for 2 fillets of Tilapi.

Tilapia Fish Nuggets Recipe

Ingredients

2 fillets Tilapia
2 eggs
1/2 cup bread crumbs
1/2 cup all purpose flour
oil for frying

Method

Cut the fish fillet along the center and cut each half into inch long pieces approximately.
Set up the breading station. Crack the eggs into a shallow flat dish and beat well. Put the flour in another dish and the bread crumbs in a third dish.
In a wide flat frying pan heat oil for shallow frying.
Dip a few pieced of fish in egg, then coat well with the flour.
Next dip again in the egg and coat with breadcrumgs.
Fry on medium high heat till the breading takes on a nice golden color.
Drain and serve hot with you favourite dipping sauce.

Notes

Aditya likes to have his nugget fried longer with a more reddish tinge. He calls them the Indian nuggets. (On his last trip to India he had feasted on Venkys Chicken Nuggets fried to a more deeper red color. He had loved them and had declared them better than the American nuggets.)
Though they taste great with tartar sauce, I served them with a cilantro dressing from Trader Joes which was also a good combination.

Filed under Fish, Snacks, Breadded Fish, Fish Nuggets, Snacks, Tilapia Nuggets.