Distinctive Dinners: Quite Night at Home
Tilapia with Golden Raisins | Citrus Couscous Salad
Tilapia with Golden Raisins
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 2 |
| Category: | Fish Entrée |
| Meal: | Quite Night at Home (Distinctive Dinners) |
| 3 | Tb | rice flour |
| 1 | pinch | salt and pepper to taste |
| 8 | oz | tilapia |
| 2 | Tb | oil, olive |
| 2 | Tb | pine nuts, toasted |
| 2 | Tb | raisins, golden |
| 2 | oz | wine, dry white |
| 1 | Tb | butter, salted |
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Mix salt and pepper with rice flour. Dredge Tilapia filets in flour, shaking off excess. Heat oil in pan and sauté filets for 3 minutes per side. Remove filets from the pan, keep warm. Add raisins, pine nuts and wine, simmer for 2 minutes, add butter, remove from heat and swirl until melted. Pour over filets and serve.
Citrus Couscous Salad
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 8 |
| Category: | Salad |
| Meal: | Quite Night at Home (Distinctive Dinners) |
| 2 | cup | orange juice |
| 0.5 | cup | water |
| 1 | tsp | salt, table |
| 1 | package | couscous |
| 0.5 | cup | apricots, dried |
| 0.5 | cup | raisins, golden |
| 2 | Tb | vinegar, red wine |
| 1 | medium | cucumbers, sliced |
| 0.75 | cup | scallions, sliced |
| 0.5 | cup | almonds, slivered |
| 0.25 | cup | mint, fresh |
| 0.25 | cup | lemon, juice of |
| 3 | Tb | oil, vegetable |
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Bring 1- 1/2 cups orange juice, water, and salt to boil in a medium saucepan; gradually stir in 1 box couscous. Remove from heat, cover and let stand 5 minutes. Fluff with a fork and put it in a large bowl. Combine 1/2 cup orange juice, sliced dried apricots, raisins, and vinegar in a small saucepan; bring to a boil. Remove from heat; let stand 15 minutes. Add apricot mixture, cucumbers and remaining ingredients to couscous, stirring to combine.
