Healthy and tasty tilapia recipes
As winter approaches, many of us start longing for sturdy home-cooked meals to keep the energy level up preferably ones with some extra spices and seasoning to combat the harshness of the season. In this text you will find two delicious and cheap fish recipes. Both recipes have been choosen and developed to work great with tilapia; a cheap alternative that can be found frozen in most areas around the world, you will likely find tilapia in your local supermarket.
I hope you will enjoy the recpies as much as I have!
Mango salsa delight
Ingredients needed for the mango salsa
- 1 very ripe mango
- 1 avocado (ripe)
- 3 tomatoes
- 1 medium sized red onion
- 1 jalapeno pepper
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 1 lime
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger root
- 1 teaspoon salt
Other ingredients
- 2 tablespoons of olive oil
- 2 tablespoons of grated orange zest
- 1/4 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
- Crushed red pepper flakes to taste
- Coarsely ground black pepper to taste
- Salt to taste
- 4 tilapia fillets
Directions
1.) Preheat the oven the oven to 200 degrees C / 400 degrees F.
2.) Peel,seed and dice the mango, avocado and tomatoes.
3.) Now take the red onion, cilantro and jalpeno, chop them into small pieces and mix them with the mango.
4.) Squeeze lime juive over the mixture (this is easier to do if you but the mixture in a bowl first).
5.) Now it is time to add the salt and ginger to the mix and make sure that everything is evenly distributed. Let the mix rest while you prepare the tilapia.
6.) Prepare the fish by placing olive oil, grated orange zest, and freshly squeezed orange juice in a shallow baking dish and combine well. Add salt, black pepper and red pepper flakes to taste.
7.) Rinse the tilapia fillets in water and pat them dry.
Put the fillets in the baking dish while making sure you coat both sides with seasoning.
9.) Put in the owen until baked which usually take 10-12 minutes.
10.) Place the tilapias on serving plates and spoon plenty of mango salsa over each fillet.
Tips! This tilapia recipe tastes great with Basmati rice, especially if you also add some wild rice (Indian rise).
Tilapia Pancho villa
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon of olive oil
- 4 tilapia fillets (roughly 4 ounces or 100 grams each)
- Green chilli peppers to taste
- 1 ounce of canned diced tomatoes (10 ounces or 250-300 grams)
- Fresh cilantro to taste
- 1 lime + 1 lime
Instructions
1.) Preheat the oven to 175 degrees C / 350 degrees F.
2.) Prepare 4 pieces of aluminium foil (each 8×10 in or 20×25 cm) by coating one side with olive oil.
3.) Put each fillet on a piece of kitchen foil.
4.) Seed and chop the green chilli peppers and mix them with the tomatoes.
5.) Mix the tomatoes and chille well and put the mixtures on the tilapia fillets.
6.) Mince the cilantro and juice one lime and pour everything on top of the tomato mixture. (If you’re hesitant about how much cilantro to use, 4 tablespoons is a good rule of thumb.)
7.) Slice very thin slices of lime and put two slices on each fillet.
8.) Wrap the foil pieces around the fillets so that the fillets become enclosed.
9.) Bake the fish in the oven until the tilapia can be easily flaked with a fork. Cooking time is usually around 20 min.
Tips! You can add chilli flakes to the tomato mixture to make the dish a bit stronger.
