Grilled Tilapia (VIDEO)

5 from 1 vote

Want to include fish in your diet for a balanced lifestyle. Try this delicious Oven Grilled Tilapia Recipe. You won’t believe how diverse and rich the flavors are!

Prep Time10

Cook Time30

Total Time40

Course: Fish

Cuisine: African, Middle Eastern

Keyword: best grilled tilapia, best grilled tillapia recipe, easy grilled tilapia, easy oven grilled tilapia, homemade grill tilapia, oven grilled fish recipe, oven-grilled tilapia

Servings:

Calories: 480kcal

Equipment

Ingredients

For the marinade

1 red bell pepper (roughly diced)
1 sweet pepper (roughly diced)
1 onion (roughly diced)
1 scotch bonnet
2 garlic cloves
Thumb-sized fresh ginger
1 fish stock cube
1 tsp mixed herbs
1 tsp smoked paprika
½ tsp curry powder
½ tsp sea salt
¼ cup sunflower oil

For prepping the fish for grilling

2 fresh tilapia (small-sized)
marinade (as shown above)

For the garnish sauce

½ marinade (as shown above)
¼ coconut oil
¼ red bell pepper
¼ green bell pepper
¼ yellow bell pepper

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Slice the bell peppers, sweet peppers, onion, scotch bonnet, garlic, and ginger with a knife.
Mix the chopped ingredients with the fish stock cube, mixed herbs, smoked paprika, curry powder, and sea salt.
Puree everything together in a blender with sunflower oil.
Fry the mixture in coconut oil in a frying pan for ten minutes.
Remove the fish scales and clean the tilapia.
Use a knife to score it on both sides.
Marinate the fish with the sauce.
Cover the fish with cling film.
Let it marinate for at least one hour or overnight.
Grease the oven rack and preheat the oven to 250°C.
Baste the fish with the leftover sauce.
Cook it in the oven for ten minutes on each side.
In a pan, cook the mixed bell peppers in the sauce for three minutes.
Pour the bell pepper garnish on the tilapia.
Finally, you can now serve the Grilled Tilapia!

Video

Notes

Store the fish as soon as you get home to preserve them.
Cook the sauce if you don’t have a blender.
Use other methods of cooking the fish in case you don’t have access to an oven.

Nutrition