OVEN GRILLED TILAPIA...

My love for grilled fish started when i lived in Port Harcourt, anybody who lives in or has visited Port Harcourt knows about the very famous Bolle & Fish. For now i don't own a charcoal grill but a good oven grilled one works too.

Tilapia

3 Tatashe or Red bell peppers

1 Medium sized onion

Fresh Garlic and Ginger

Salt and Pepper

Bay Leaves

1/2 Cup of Palm oil 

3 Small New Potatoes

Lemon slices

Scale fish and clean out the gut, rinse properly.

Make slits on the fish down to the bone on both sides. Set fish aside in fridge to chill out.

Blend tatashe with garlic, onions and ginger together with very little water. Pour into a bowl and add palm oil, bay leaves, salt and pepper to make a sauce. The palm oil give it amazing flavour, copied this from the roadside bolle and fish women. ;)

Peel potatoes, rise and parboil for 15 minutes. If you pop the potatoes in raw it wont be all the way cook through, trust me, i botched it the 1st time.

Spread out a sheet of aluminium foil place fish on it and smother it with the sauce, filling the slits and fish cavity to season it all through. Stuff potatoes into the cavity of the fish.

Wrap up the fish completely in the foil to make a neat package, place it on an oven tray and place into a pre-heated oven. Grill for 45 minutes.

Unwrap the package, baste with any residual sauce and pop back into the oven, with the top of the foil wrap open for another 10 to 15 minutes to put a nice crisp on the fish.

Plate and serve with lemon slices, and potato chips, roast plantain or yam.

Enjoy a healthy guilt free meal.

Food, glorious food!

:)