Almond Crusted Fish Sticks

with Tartar Sauce

12g meal - fish sticks, green beans, and tartar sauce

Almond Crusted Fish Sticks

Total Yield: 16 sticks - 24.6 g carbs

Serving size: 6 sticks - 9 g carbs

Prep Time: 20 min

Cook Time: 25 min

Ingredients: Carbs:

Fish Sticks

1 lb. (4 filets) tilapia 0 g

1 c. sliced almonds 24 g

2 eggs .6 g (not all the egg gets used)

1 tsp cayenne pepper 0 g

1 tsp salt 0 g

2 tsp black pepper 0 g

Tartar Sauce

3 oz dill pickles (about 3) 3 g

1/2 c. mayo 0 g

1 tsp lemon juice 0 g

1 tsp yellow mustard 0 g

salt to taste 0 g

black pepper to taste 0 g

Directions:

Preheat oven to 450º. Coat the bottom of a 9x13 pan with olive oil.

Start by making the tartar sauce. Cut the pickles into small diced pieces and add to the mayo. Add the lemon juice, mustard, salt, and pepper. Mix well. Store in fridge until it's time to eat.

Cut the tilapia filets into strips. I cut them into fourths (one vertical cut, one horizontal cut). Set aside.

Beat the eggs very well. If they are not beaten well, they will get clumpy on the fish when you bread them.

Grind the almonds in a food processor to make almond flour. We like coarsely ground flour so the fish is coated with a little crunch. You could also use 3/4 c. almond flour from the store instead of grinding your own. We usually keep sliced almonds around, so this is a way to save space in our pantry.

After you have your almond flour, add the cayenne, salt, and pepper, and mix well.

Take each filet and dip it first in the egg, then the flour mixture. Set in the pan. Repeat this until all the filets are coated. We needed all of the flour to coat all of the filets (no extras). Remember, the carb count uses all of the flour mixture, so if you don't use it all, it's less carbs, and if you need more, account for that.

Bake the fish for 10 min, then flip them over and bake for another 15 min.

You're done!

Notes: We eat this meal with green beans which I make while the fish is baking.

For a 12.5 g meal, eat 6 fish sticks, a little tartar sauce, and 50 g of green beans (3.5 g of carbs) with salt, pepper, and butter. The picture above is a 12.5 g portioned meal.