Nigerian Grilled Fish and Plantain

• 🧑‍🍳 Medium
• ⏱ Prep: 10mins
• 🥘 Cook: 20mins
• 🍴 Serves 4

So yum! If you’re like me and get bored of your food quickly, this is a delicious dish to try to get your taste buds tingling again!. Having guests over? Lazing about on a weekend or just tired of swallow (fufu, eba, iyan) everyday? Pepper grilled fish and plantain is one for the home-cooked bucket list.

Grilled Peppered Fish Ingredients

Main Ingredients

• 4 Tilapia Fish, washed and descaled
• Olive oil
• Salt
• Crayfish Stock Powder
• Dried Thyme 
• Curry Powder

Sauce Ingredients

• Green Chilli
• Red Chilli
• Red Onion
• Ginger
• Garlic
• Scotch Bonnet
• Fresh Rosemary (not compulsory)

To Serve

Fried Plantain

Other Recommendations: use croaker fish or sea brim instead of tilapia.

Grilled Peppered Fish Direction

1. Set the oven to 180 degrees celsius.
2. Pat out any excess water with paper towels and rub the salt, stock cube powder, rosemary and curry powder all over your fish and leave to marinade.
3. In a separate process, bring your red bell pepper and garlic to an oven tray. Coat peppers with olive oil and leave to grill in the oven for 10mins.
4. Remove peppers and blend with ginger, scotch bonnet and rosemary. This makes the fish sauce.
5. Make 3 horizontal cuts on the fish on both sides. Add the sauce into the flesh of the fish.
6. Once your fish has been coated in the sauce, add the thyme inside and leave the fish in the oven at 180 degs celsius to bake for 20-25 minutes.
7. Set aside on the cooling rack for a few minutes to set. Serve while hot.

Serving: Allow to rest for 5 mins and serve with your plantains ©

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