Found these recipes via Gojee. They sent out an email with their top Cinco de Mayo recipes and these 2 sounded yummy. I changed them to fit my tastes as I always do so click through to see the actual recipes by the people who deserve the credit!
Tilapia with Corn Salsa:
3 tbsp. unsalted butter
3 tilapia filets
1 tsp. sea salt
Pepper
Chili Powder
1 tbsp. olive oil
1 cup drained canned yellow corn
1/2 red onion – chopped in large chunks
1 jalapeno, finely minced
3/4 cup fresh mint leaves. roughly chopped
juice of 2 limes (about 1/4 cup)
Place the red onion, jalapeno, mint leaves and lime juice in a bowl. Set aside.
Rinse and pat dry filets. Sprinkle both sides of the filets with sea salt, pepper and chili powder.
Set a large skillet over medium heat. Once it’s hot, add the olive oil and the corn kernels. Cook for 5 minutes, or until the corn is just tender. Leave the heat on while you transfer the corn to the bowl with the other salsa ingredients and give everything a big stir.
Return the pan to the heat and melt the butter. Add the filets and half-cover the skillet, allowing some steam to circulate and some to escape. Cook the fish for 3-4 minutes, then carefully and gently flip the filets. Add the bowl of salsa ingredients and cook with the fish for an additional 3-4 minutes or until it’s just cooked through at the thickest part. Remove fish to a serving plate or plates and top with the corn salsa. I picked the giant hunks of onion out as I HATE onions but thought it might add to the flavor!
I won’t any awards for presentation but hey -this isn’t a restaurant :) If you check the original recipe, you can see I did change things so up to you which you want to try. But my way was **extremely** delicious :)
http://www.gojee.com/food/links/snapper-with-corn-salsa
Served the fish with this corn:
Cuban/Mexican Grilled Corn
Grated cotija cheese (If you can’t find it, substitute with grated Queso Fresco or Italian Parmesan or Greek feta)
Light Mayonnaise (I bet non-fat would work too but no good reason for full fat!)
Cayenne pepper or chili powder
Lime wedges
There are many methods of grilling corn and you may already have a favorite technique. For this recipe, we peeled off entire husks and wrapped in foil. Normally I’d soak the corn first and brush with olive oil and spices but I wanted to try a more charred version and not change the flavors of this recipe so did not do that this time. You grill for about 10-15 minutes depending how hot you’ve gotten your grill. Just watch it.
Brush on a light layer of mayo. Sprinkle desired amounts of cotija cheese and cayenne chili powder. Serve with lime wedges. Husband did most the work on this since I do not man the grill so he gets credit although I did find the recipe and do all the prep work ;)
You will seriously never want other corn again :) Although I do want to try the jalapeno butter also found in the recipe on it as well!
