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!
