Kristy's Zumba in Lebanon 
 
Serves - 4         Hands On Time: 20 mins         Total Time: 1 hour (or 25-30 mins)

Ingredients:
1 cup brown rice
4 (6 oz) tilapia fillets
2 Tbsp low-sodium tamari soy sauce
1 (8 oz) can no sugar added pineapple chunks, juice reserved
6 scallions, white & green parts, sliced (about 1/2 cup) divided

Pantry Staples:
Olive Oil cooking spray
Ground black pepper & sea salt

Instructions:
One
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees.  Bring 2 cups water to a boil in a small saucpan over high heat.  Add rice, reduce heat to low, cover and simmer 50 mins or until water is absorbed and rice is tender.  Remove from heat and steam w/ lid on for 10 mins.
*Or....you can cheat and just use Uncle Ben's Boil in the Bag Brown Rice - only takes about 15 mins!

Two - Meanwhile, place fillets in baking dish coated w/ cooking spray.  In a small bowl, combine soy sauce w/ 3 Tbsp pineapple juice, then pour over fillets.  Season w/ pepper, to taste.  Bake 15-20 mins, or until cooked through.

Three - Coat a skillet w/ cooking spray and heat on med-low.  Reserve 2 Tbsp green scallion pieces for garnish.  Add remaining scallions to skillet and cook for 2 mins.  Add pineapple chunks and cook for 45 seconds.  Fold scallion-pineapple mixture into steamed rice, and season w/ salt & pepper to taste.

Four - Mound one cup rice onto each of four plates.  Place a tilapia fillet on top of rice.  Drizzle pan juices over fillets, garnish w/ reserved scallions.  SERVE!

Notes - Cut this recipe in half and used boil in the bag rice because I didn't want to wait 50 mins for regular rice. 

Nutrition Facts:
Serving Size - 6 oz tilapia & 1 cup rice
Calories - 250
Total Fat - 3.5g
Sat Fat - 1.5g
Carbs - 47 g
Fiber - 2g
Sugars - 5g
Protein - 37g
Sodium - 460mg
Cholesterol - 84mg

Reviews - I LOVED THIS!  I thought it would be odd...soy sauce & pineapple, but it was really yummy and refreshing.  Would be even better in the summer time.  I wish I would have cooked the fish less, because the soy/pineapple juice was dried up in the baking dish when I took it out and fish was very done, but still good. 
If you don't like pineapple you probably won't like this.  It's very tropical! 
Also, the scallions were not strong and I probably cooked them longer than suggested.  I'm not a big onion fan, so I wanted to cook out the taste, haha! 

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