Baked Tilapia with Peppers and Onions

 

Are you drooling yet? I love, love, love tilapia. Fried, baked, grilled, it's wonderful! This recipe is so simple and quick and packs a flavorful punch, you'll be sure to make it again and again!

Baked Tilapia with Peppers and Onion
Serves 4
Ingredients:

• 4 Tilapia fillets Fresh or frozen. If using frozen, it must be thawed first*
• 2-3 Peppers of choice I prefer using small sweet peppers but bell peppers work nicely as well
• 1 medium sized sweet onion
• Garlic to taste You can use fresh, jarred, or even garlic powder, whatever you have on hand!
• Lemon Pepper seasoning
• Dill seasoning
• Cayenne pepper seasoning (optional)
• Olive oil (or butter)
• 4 sheets of aluminum foil large enough to make a foil pouch**
• 1-2 cups of rice White rice is good but brown or wild rice is delicious as well and adds a nutritional boost!

*Recipe also works well with whiting fillets or even salmon.
**Instructions on making a foil pouch

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees
• Slice and cut peppers and onion into bite sized pieces
• Take a sheet of foil and lay it flat, place 1/8 of your peppers and onion on the foil.
• Place 1 tilapia fillet on top of the peppers and onion
• Sprinkle lemon pepper, dill, cayenne pepper, then garlic on top of fillet
• Top the fillet with another 1/8 of peppers and onion
• Drizzle olive oil (or add a pat of butter) over fillet
• Fold foil into pouch and repeat above steps with remaining fish
• Place foil pouches on baking sheet
• Bake for 20 minutes Fish is done when it flakes easily with fork. Take caution when opening pouches, as contents are quite hot and steamy!
• While fish is baking, prepare 1-2 cups of rice according to instructions on its bag/box.
• Lay fish over bed of rice and dig in!! Don't forget to pour all the juice from the pouch over it. Simply delicious!