Moist, dark, and baked with molasses, shoofly pie has a crumble topping. It has a mild sweetness to it and is minimal in fat (the crust has almost all of the fat). Whipping cream is an option for the topping. A Southern dish is this.
| Prep Time: | 25 mins |
| Cook Time: | 15 mins |
| Total Time: | 40 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
| Yield: | 4 fillets |
Ingredients
- 4 (4 ounce) fillets tilapia
- salt and ground black pepper to taste
- 1 large tomato, chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 4 fresh basil leaves, chopped
- 1 ½ teaspoons capers, drained
- 4 teaspoons lemon juice
- ¼ cup butter, divided
- 1 cup white wine
- 1 tablespoon butter, or as needed
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter a baking sheet so that the bottoms of the packets will brown when baked.
- Prepare 4 sheets of parchment paper by folding each sheet in half and placing a tilapia fillet centered onto one side of the fold of each sheet. Season the tilapia with salt and black pepper. Top the fillets with equal amounts of tomato, garlic, basil, and capers. Sprinkle lemon juice over the fillets. Place 1 tablespoon butter atop the fish. Drizzle white wine over the fillets.
- Roll up the sides of the paper first, then the top, leaving 1/2-inch space along one edge; fold to seal. Grease the bottoms of the packets with 1 tablespoon butter and arrange on the baking sheet.
- Bake in preheated oven until the fish flakes easily with a fork, 15 to 20 minutes.
- Make sure that the parchment paper you are using is actual parchment and not waxed paper like the kind you normally bake cookies on. Waxed paper cannot withstand the amount of heat in the oven that parchment paper can. (Waxed paper=325 degrees F (165 degrees C); parchment paper=420 degrees (220 degrees C).
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 303 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 5 g |
| Cholesterol | 79 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 24 g |
| Saturated Fat | 9 g |
| Sodium | 190 mg |
| Sugars | 2 g |
| Fat | 16 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Delicious, moist and flavorful. Watched video for folding parchment & had no leakage issues. Minor changes: p/o fresh basil sprinkled with dried, used 1/2 of wine (1-2 T/fillet), ~ 1/2 T butter/fillet. greased bottom of pan but not bottom of packet. It was done perfectly in 20 minutes. Definitely good restaurant quality!
Wonderful flavor and so easy to make!
2020, what a year! Lol. I’ll eat just about anything but the wife is a little more selective. We both loved this and our teens, too. We modify ingredients and amounts as we have them. We’ll use some pesto if we don’t have fresh basil, capers or not, wine or not. Tried a few with salsa. Always great!
Very easy and a good presentation! Very delicious and healthy!
Fantastic on chicken too!!!
This recipe calls for far too much wine.. the paper does not close well with this much liquid. You really cannot taste anything except the lemon and of course the fish.
Delish! My whole family loved it. Easy and Healthy!
Wonderful. I bought the wine to use, and then forgot to add it. I did everything else the recipe called for, and my husband said it was the best fish presentation he’s had in years (he’s grown up in a restaurant, foodie family and has traveled with business eating in very great restaurants). So very easy to make. I used parchment paper pockets and they worked wonderfully. Will do this again!
I love eating healthy and this recipe certainly fits the bill. I haven’t used parchment paper and whole lot, but followed the easy instructions and it turned out great!
Excellent! Make sure to use kosher salt and fresh cracked black pepper!
This was a really easy and quick recipe…great for a weekday dinner. I wish we made more. We served it with brown rice (which soaked up the juice nicely) and asparagus. I will make it again. Did I mention that I usually hate tilapia because it is so bland? This was very flavorful!
Easier than I thought and pretty good too
Really yummy. A big hit with the family. I added a thin slice of lemon on top of each fish fillet, and I did the pouches in aluminum foil instead of parchment paper. Just as tasty and worked just as well, and no need to butter the pan under the pouches.
I made it without the capers and loved it!! So easy and healthy. Now that’s my kind of dinner!
This was so good I couldn’t believe it was so delicous. No worries about dried out fish! Since I prefer salt water fish, I used sea bass. Unbelievable!
This was delicious and easy! We are trying to eat more healthy so I made a few changes. I mixed the tomato, garlic, basil and capers together. Then after drying the filets and seasoning them with salt and pepper, I spooned over a bit of the tomato mixture on each filet. I topped with a slice of lemon rather than lemon juice to keep it from being too juicy. I omitted the butter and wine. I loosely folded the parchment paper leaving gaps for steam to escape. I did not grease the baking sheet, and I baked in a 350 degree oven for 20 minutes. The fillets were moist and perfect. I served with rice and salad and even the kids gobbled it up with requests for seconds! This will definitely be a repeat in our home.
This was delicious and so easy to make. Don’t let the looks or sound of it fool you. Find a video online of how to wrap the parchment and just go for it. The only thing that was a bit hard was trying to keep the wine and lemon juice from leaking out of the sides while I was folding. All in all though, it was very easy and made a wonderful, healthy, light, flaky, incredibly aromatic fish. The presentation is great too (see my photo…which doesn’t do it justice). I didn’t have capers so went without, but I would recommend using them and not rinsing the brine off. The dish was lacking in salt because I didn’t have them (though in retrospect, green olives with a little of their juice might have sufficed). This dish is the only thing I’ve ever seen my Dad put salt on (I did salt the fish beforehand). I paired this with “Stuffed Peppers Italian Style” from this site. I will absolutely make this dish again. Thanks so much for posting Paula!
Great taste and easy to make