Baked tilapia is a very affordable dish and it can be ready within 30 minutes, with just 10 minutes used for preparation. The rest of the time the tilapia recipe is cooking in the oven.
I love cooking tilapia. It’s a nice mild fish and it’s smaller fillets cook up quickly.
This recipe adds a lot of Mediterranean flavors to the fish. Bake it with onions, onions, tomato paste and olives plus oregano, a wonderful Italian herb.
Just pop it in the oven and it’s ready in just 15 minutes or so, depending on the size of your fillets.
I love 30 minute meals and easy recipes that give you great taste with little effort. This one really hits the mark for both.
Note! This recipe is not only suitable for making baked tilapia; you can use it to prepare almost any type of baked fish fillets as long as the fish is mild in flavor and firm-fleshed. You can bake haddock, cod or sole this way.
Just keep in mind that the baking time needs to be adjusted for the thickness of the fish. Sole is very thin, while haddock and cod are thicker. Tilapia is in the middle, similar to cod fish.
This recipe for baked fish is a perfect diabetic recipe but also suits low carb diets and those who need gluten free recipes.
Baked tilapia requires 4 – 4 ounce tilapia fillets and is enough for 4 servings.
Baked Tilapia
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup olive oil, preferably extra virgin olive oil
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon oregano, dried
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 4 tablespoons tomato paste
- 4 - 4 ounce tilapia fillets
- 1 red bell pepper
- 1 onion, large
- 1/2 cup green olives, sliced (optional)
- 4 tablespoons butter
Instructions
- Start by preheating the oven to 175°C/350°F.
- Prepare a medium sized baking dish by coating its bottom with a few tablespoons of the olive oil.
- Pour the rest of the olive oil into a small bowl and mix it with the salt, pepper, oregano, garlic and tomato paste. Place the tilapia fillets in the baking dish. The skin side should be up. Use a spatula to gently spread the mix from the bowl over the fillets. A large part of the paste should be used to cover the centers of the fillets.
- Slice one red or green pepper into thin slices. Slice one large onion into slices. Place the bell pepper and the onion slices around the tilapia fillets.
- Place the baking dish in the oven and bake for 15 minutes. The baked tilapia is finished when you can easily flake it using a fork.
- Remove the tilapia pan from the oven and place 1 tablespoon of butter on top of each fillet. Set the oven to broil and broil the tilapia for 5-7 minutes. The butter should be fully melted and just turning slightly brown when you remove the dish from the oven.
Nutrition
Serves 4.
Tips:
- As it says above, feel free to replace the tilapia fillets with a mild flavored white fish of your choice. Cod or haddock would be great too.
- The recipe states to use green or red bell peppers, but I love the look of multi colored peppers, so I would do 1/2 green pepper and 1/2 red pepper. Or color it up even more with multicolored peppers like yellow, orange or purple. It would look amazing.
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