Tilapia in Mushroom & Shallot Cream Sauce

This is a recipe which has been requested a few times by my significant other!
 
Serves 2-3

Vegetarian? Yes

Ingredients

• 2-3 tilapia fillets
• 500 ml heavy cream
• 3-4 green onions chopped into dime sized pieces
• 3-4 medium shallots (sliced thinly)
• 2 cups of sliced mushrooms
• 1 bottle of beer
• butter
• salt and pepper to taste

Optional Ingredients

• Broccoli
• Green Peas
• Or Baby Spinach salad with; mandarin oranges, toasted sliced almonds and pomegranate vinaigrette

Sauce

• Put enough butter in frying pan to coat bottom liberally
• Throw in shallots and let simmer for 5 minutes or until translucent
• Chuck in mushrooms, allow to simmer another 5 mins
• Add 1/2 bottle of beer (1/4 cup vermouth or white wine)
• salt and pepper to taste
• Let simmer until beer stops bubbling (8 mins)
• Pour in all cream slowly, stirring gently
• Allow to reduce for 10-15 mins or until starting to turn thick
• Add chopped green onions
• Simmer on medium low heat another 10-15 minutes, until reduced to desirable 'sauce' texture.

Fish

• Salt top and bottom of fish lightly
• Throw fish in alternate frying pan (medium low heat), very little cooking oil (size of quarter)
• Cook fish on each side for 5-6 minutes or until it just starts to flake apart when pressed lightly with fork.

Serve

• Spoon a generous portion of sauce over fish on plate and add veggies as side, or side salad in a bowl.

***If desired you can prepare a light side dish like green peas or spinach salad with a light pomegranate vinaigrette with mandarin oranges, and/or toasted sliced almonds.***


ENJOY!