How many calories would you estimate for breading tilapia?

I don’t think there’s just a random ballpark anyone can give with the info provided.
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What are you breading it with? Flour? Panko? Breadcrumbs? Cornmeal? Are you using a binder? Eggs? Milk? A combo? Are you baking or frying? Are you misting with oil so the breading browns? How much oil?

The way to go would be to weigh/measure the breading etc. before you prepare the fish and then weigh/measure what’s left and get the calorie count from there.

Retroguy2000 wrote: »

Those are all very good questions, to which I do not know.

Home cooking. Baked. That's all I know. My wife doesn't want to get bogged down with such details re calories, but for myself I'd like to have an idea, even if it's just a ballpark.

Can't you at least ask her what she breads it with? Say it's so tasty you want to know . Or watch, and say you might want to make some yourself someday. It's easy to tell cornmeal from panko from flour, or milk from eggs.

Generally 150 to 200 calories depending on the bread/panko and of course it's generally part of a 3 step process of a breading station that starts with flour, then eggs and then the bread crumbs/panko, so you need to factor that in as well. Calories are a guess at best, and people believing the actually know how many they consume is fantasyland anyway, don't stress over it and enjoy your fish.