Quicker, Lighter Fish and Chips

If you know me at all, you know I really don’t care about making sure my recipes are “light” or “healthy” or “skinny” or whatever.  The Paleo/Primal way of eating, by definition, is a hell of a lot better than the Standard American Diet, and I’ve found that just avoiding crappy ingredients makes a world of difference–even when you’re making comfort food.  Fish and Chips happens to be one of my all time favorite comfort foods, so I got some tilapia and some sweet potatoes, was all set to make up a nice batter and fry everything up in some coconut oil, and then…I just pooped out.  I’m mid-move, you guys.  I’m tired.  I’m cranky.  I just wanted dinner on the table when Ross came home and was NOT in the mood for anything requiring any cranial activity.

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So, here’s what I did…I made sweet potato fries like I always do, except with some vinegar because that’s how they always give them to you when the whole mess is served out of a truck wrapped in newspaper.  Then I took the fish, threw them on a baking sheet, and seasoned the heck out of them with all the flavors that you’d expect from the fried variety.  Think lemon, thyme, a little oregano, garlic, and (obviously) salt.  I know every recipe varies the batter a little bit but I really tried to capture what I would say (in my own experience) is the quintessential fish and chips experience.  And it definitely did not disappoint.  But I was tired, so maybe I’m just full of it.  Either way, the whole thing took 30 minutes, most of it spent racked on the couch, so I’ll call that a win.

Quicker, Lighter Fish and Chips
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Serves: 2
Ingredients
  • 2 large sweet potatoes
  • 2 T apple cider vinegar
  • 2 T olive oil
  • salt
  • 2 tilapia or cod filets
  • 1 t oregano
  • 1 t thyme
  • 1 t garlic powder
  • 1 t onion powder
  • 1 T salt
  • 1/2 lemon
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
  2. Cut your potatoes up into fries. Place them in a mixing bowl with the vinegar, oil, and salt and mix them up really well.
  3. Spread on a baking sheet and place in the oven for 30 minutes
  4. Place your filets on a baking sheet.
  5. Mix up all the seasonings and sprinkle over the tilapia filets.
  6. Squeeze the juice of the lemon over the filets.
  7. After the sweet potatoes have been cooking for 15 minutes, place the tray of fish into the oven with them. Bake 15 minutes more.

 

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