Abuelo'S Tilapia Veracruz - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    2 tilapia fillets
    1/2 teaspoon Lawry's Seasoned Salt
    1 tablespoon clarified butter
    Veracruz Sauce
    1 teaspoon butter, Clarified
    1/2 teaspoon garlic, chopped
    4 scallops
    2 shrimp, peeled
    1/4 cup diced tomato
    6 poblano peppers, roasted and julienned into 1/4-inch pieces
    1 dash Lawry's Seasoned Salt
    1 tablespoon white wine
    1/4 cup major peter's bloody mary mix
    1 guero chile
    2 green olives, sliced
Preparation
    Season 2 Tilapia filets with Lawry's seasoned salt.
    Place 1 tablespoon clarified butter in saute pan.
    Preheat pan over medium flame.
    Place Tilapia filets in saute pan with the skin side facing up.
    Saute for 1 minute.
    Turn filets and place in oven at 400F for 2 minutes to finish.
    Prepare Veracruz sauce and ladle sauce over fish, leaving the ends of the fish exposed.
    For the sauce:
    Heat butter over medium heat.
    Add garlic, scallops and shrimp.
    Saute for 1 minute.
    Add tomatoes, poblano strips and seasoning. Continue cooking for 30 seconds.
    Add white wine to mixture and reduce.
    Add Bloody Mary Mix, chile guero and olives. Continue cooking for 1 minute.
    Remove from flame and pour over fish.
    Note: Make sure the edges of the fish are not covered with sauce. Sauce should be bright and loose, not thick and dry.

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