I planned to make tilapia for us for dinner, but had no idea how. I asked Matt for suggestions...which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Usually he is wondering how I could decide what to cook, but not how to prepare it. Sometimes, that's just as far as I get. You know what I mean?
Matt's suggestion, as usual, was so perfectly simple that it couldn't help but be absolutely delicious. He reminisced about eating foil fish dinners at some hole-in-the-wall restaurant in northern Michigan with his Dad many years ago. Inspired by that, and using what we had on hand, this is what he created.
Whitefish with Butternut Squash and Green Beans
The before picture. The camera battery died before we got an after photo!
Ingredients:
2 tilapia fillets, thawed (or other whitefish)
1/2 bag frozen chopped butternut squash
1/2 bag frozen cut green beans
4 Tbsp. butter
Several dashes each of garlic salt, pepper, salt, and brown sugar according to your liking
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Lay a large piece of foil on cookie sheet. Place ingredients on foil in order of ingredient list. Lay a second large piece of foil over fish mixture and crimp all edges tightly together to seal ingredients inside.
3. Bake for 30-35 minutes.
We served this with Creamy Parmesan Risotto (from a box). It would also be delicious with mashed potatoes, rice, perhaps bread (I bet this would be delicious to soak up the melted butter!), or maybe even pasta.
Enjoy!
i may have to amend and rename this recipe because we may have actually used sweet potatoes, not butternut squash. i went to the store to buy more yesterday and noticed they have both and they were all mixed together. i thought i was getting squash, but i may have gotten potatoes. when i make the recipe again, i will hopefully know which it was. until then, i bet both would be delicious!
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