Ingredients
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6 tilapia fillets
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1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
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1 (14 ounce) can diced tomatoes
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1 teaspoon thyme (fresh off the stem or granulated )
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1 (4 ounce) can black olives (sliced )
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1 teaspoon parsley
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1/2 teaspoon fresh basil
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2 garlic cloves (minced )
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1/2 cup vidalia onion (sweet, finely chopped )
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1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
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6 sprigs thyme
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6 lemon slices
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Lightly spray a shallow baking dish with cooking spray (olive or canola).
- In a bowl, stir together oil, thyme, diced tomatoes, sliced olives, parsley, basil, chopped onions and lemon juice.
- In the prepared baking dish, arrange the fillets skin side down and season with salt.
- Spoon the tomato mixture over the fillets abundantly.
- Bake, uncovered, in the middle of the oven for about 15 or 20 minutes or until fish just flake.
- Garnish fish with lemon slices and fresh Thyme .
- Now comes the best part, sit down with your loved ones and enjoy !
- Hope you will go wild for this dish as my family did.
- You may want to serve this with risotto or tortellini .