The Good Earth Peanut Company

Recipe #11 Contest Winner

Peanut Encrusted Tilapia
With Asian vegetables and Glass Noodles
And Coconut Peanut Sauce

4 oz Tilapia filet, boneless/skinless
1/4 cup Panko bread crumbs
2oz A/P Flour
1/2 cup Peanuts, whole shelled
1 Egg, whole beaten
1/4oz Parsley
2tbsp Sesame oil
2oz Thin rice noodles, blanch and set aside
2 pcs Straw mushrooms, drained
Shitake mushrooms, sliced thin
¼ pepper Red chilies, sliced thin on bias
1tsp Fresh garlic, chopped
2 tbsp Seasoning salt
1 tsp Parsley, fine chopped
4 pcs Snow peas, blanched and set aside
1oz Green peas, blanched and set aside
2 cups Premium coconut milk
½ cup Creamy peanut butter
1 tbsp Seasoning salt

For the tilapia

Place fish portion in flour then egg and then the peanut mixture; make sure it is completely breaded.
Pan Fry in med sauté pan on med heat until golden on each side, about 2 min. finish in oven as necessary.

For the vegetable and noodles

In Med sauté pan heat sesame oil, bring to med heat and add garlic, then mushrooms, then peas and snow peas then chilies.
Then add rice noodles to heat up. Add seasoning salt to taste. set aside and keep warm.

For peanut sauce

Combine remaining ingredients and bring to a simmer for 3 to 5 minutes blend well.

*Seasoning salt = 2parts salt, 1part gran. garlic and 1 part white pepper

*Place sauté vegetable and noodles in center of plate and put fish on top, drizzle sauce around fish and put a little dab on top.

Garnish with fried thin rice noodles ( Optional).

Scott T. Graves

The Judges

Daniel Rogov

Daniel has been writing about food and wine for more years than he will admit in public. For the last twenty years he has been the Wine and Restaurant Critic for the Israeli Daily, Ha'Aretz. Rogov also contributes regularly on dining and wine to several European newspapers and magazines; and is an advisor to Hugh Johnson's "Pocket Wine Encyclopaedia" and contributes to Tom Stevenson’s “Wine Report”. His own book “Rogov’s Guide to Israeli Wines has just been published by Toby press and can be ordered through Amazon or Barnes and Nobles. He also maintains Rogov's Ramblings, an internet site devoted to wine, gastronomy and travel.

Jenise Stone

Jenise is a an avid foodie and accomplished cook from Los Angeles who contributes to the Food Lovers Discussion Group, an internet bulletin board devoted to food chat, recipe sharing and friendship.

Robin Garr

Robin Garr has been involved in wine appreciation online since the mid-1980s, serving as a manager of CompuServe's Wine Forum for nearly a decade before the evolution of the World Wide Web. He created the Wine Lovers' Page in 1994 as one of the first independent wine-education Websites, and has presided over its growth as the largest, most popular and most highly awarded wine destination on the Internet. He began its Wine Lovers' Discussion Group, the first Web-based interactive community for the intelligent and civil discussion of wine online, in 1996; and he launched his popular E-mail newsletter, The 30 Second Wine Advisor, at the start of 1999.