Pan Fried Tilapia

Ingredients

Ingredients:

• 4 6 oz tilapia filets
• ½ teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon coarse salt
• ½ teaspoon black pepper
• ½ teaspoon paprika
• 1 teaspoon lemon zest
• 1 tablespoons olive oil or avocado oil
• 4 tablespoon Parsley Lemon Butter or your favorite flavored butter.

Parsley Lemon Butter

• 4 tablespoons salted butter
• 1 tablespoon lemon zest
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 2 tablespoon fresh parsley chopped

Garnish

• Lemon slices
• Fresh chopped parsley

Instructions

1. Prepare parsley lemon butter. Mix all the ingredients in a food processor.
2. Reshape into a cylinder. Wrap in plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator
3. to harden.
4. Pat tilapia dry with a paper towel.
5. Mix garlic powder, salt, pepper, paprika, lemon zest in a bowl.
6. Rub tilapia filets with oil.
7. Rub seasoning mix onto all sides of tilapia.
8. Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Spray with non-stick cooking
9. spray.
10. Add the tilapia filets. Cook for 2-3 minutes until the edges turn white
11. (opaque). Turn your filets over and finish cooking the other side for 2-3
12. minutes until the fish is cooked through and flakes easily and internal
13. temperature is 140°F,
14. Turn off heat. Add 1 tablespoon of Parsley Lemon Butter to the top of each
15. filet.
16. Remove from the pan and serve with lemon slices and fresh parsley.