On a date night with my husband in a gorgeous Marriott Resort in Palm Desert, I  first had blackened fish with a spicy fruit salsa. It was the most amazing flavor - the blackened Chilean Sea Bass with the spicy zingy fruit salsa. I could not get enough of it! I kept wanting to go back to that same restaurant, and get it again and again. When you make this dish - you will feel the same way ~ it is amazing!! 

Blackened Fish

You can use salmon, mahi-mahi, sea bass, tilapia or whatever you have on hand! This is surprisingly good with all sorts of fish! You could even cheat and make this with chicken, beef, or pork!

Toast spices in a DRY skillet over medium heat. Toasting spices is super simple, it just sounds exotic.This helps bring up the flavor and perfumes your house with an incredible aroma. 

• 4 Salmon, mahi-mahi, sea bass, tilapia or whatever you have on hand

Once your spices are toasted, put them in a seperate container. Heat olive oil on the bottom of a pan. Sprinkle blackened spices on both sides of fish, put in skillet. Pan fry until fish flakes easily, adding additional spice if needed. Your house will smell absolutely wonderful from this combination - whoever thought cooking fish would smell so good!

Spicy Fruit Salsa

• 1 mango, chopped
• 1 papaya chopped (we can rarely find papayas where we live in TN - you can skip it)
  
• 1 jalapeno chopped 
• 1/2 of a Vidalia onion or red onion
• 2 Tbls lemon juice
• 2 Tbls lime juice
• 1/3 bunch of cilantro chopped
  
• 1 clove of garlic minced
• dash of salt

 Chop up the mango, papaya and onion. Place in a bowl. Carefully cut up jalapeno pepper, dicing into little pieces. Discard seeds and white pith if desired (lessons hotness)  Drizzle with lemon and lime juices. Add freshly minced garlic and cilantro and dash of salt. Stir gently, put in fridge to meld flavors. Can be made up to a day in advance. I do like to serve the salsa at room temperature.

Serve blackened fish with spicy fruit salsa over it - and enjoy! This hits every taste bud you have, every bite!  This is SO GOOD!

Even our 13 year old daughter, who does not particularly like salmon and does not normally do fruit salsa, scraped every bit of this off her plate! This was rated a high 10!

Super healthy, loaded with heart and brain healthy Omega 3s, YUM! We served with herbed brown rice, garden fresh steamed broccoli and had watermelon for dessert! A super healthy, delicious meal full of anti-oxidents and flavor!