Grilled Tilapia (VIDEO)
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!
Servings: 2
Calories: 480kcal
Equipment
- Oven
- Blender
- Frying Pan
- cling film
- Knife
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
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.