Garlic and olive oil-marinated baked fish. If you would rather grill, preheat your grill and place the fish on aluminum foil. Grill the fish until it is cooked to your preference.
| Prep Time: | 5 mins |
| Cook Time: | 30 mins |
| Additional Time: | 1 day |
| Total Time: | 1 day 35 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
| Yield: | 4 servings |
Ingredients
- 4 (4 ounce) fillets tilapia
- 4 cloves crushed garlic
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
Instructions
- Rub the fish fillets with the crushed garlic, then place them in a shallow, non-reactive dish. Spoon the olive oil over the fish until they are coated. Place the onion on top of the fish. Cover the fish and refrigerate overnight to allow the fish to soak in the marinade.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- If baking the fish, transfer it to a 9×13 inch baking dish along with the olive oil, garlic, and onion. Sprinkle the fish with the cayenne or white pepper. If you are grilling the fish, wrap the fish and oil, garlic, onion, and pepper in aluminum foil.
- Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees F) for 30 minutes.
- The nutrition data for this recipe includes information for the full amount of the marinade ingredients. Depending on marinating time, ingredients, cooking method, etc., the actual amount of the marinade consumed will vary.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 217 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 4 g |
| Cholesterol | 41 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 24 g |
| Saturated Fat | 2 g |
| Sodium | 74 mg |
| Sugars | 1 g |
| Fat | 12 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I used minced garlic instead of gloves which I needed to add more garlic to the recipe. To give it a nice flavor to the marrinated liquid I added 3 tablespoons of cooking white wine to the recipe.
Tender and delicious
We did not like the taste
This had very good taste and I didn’t change anything. I cooked mine on the grill for 10 minutes just right. I will make this dish again.
Delicious and so easy to prepare!
This was edible and that the best I ca say for it. The fish was bland and not tasty in any way. It’s the first of many recipes for tilapia that I have felt this way about. Sorry, but this will not be made again.
Couldn’t get my kids to eat it and I wasn’t thrilled either.
Loved it as is.
This recipe is magnificent. Easily prepared and finished in no time. I made a few adjustments. I nuked thinly chopped onion, garlics and olive oil in the microwave for 70 seconds. I sparsely seasoned the fish with salt, pepper, garlic pepper, garlic salt and cayenne pepper. I applied the nuked garlic/olive oil/garlic mixture to the fish on top. I grilled for 15 minutes and it came out juicy, flavorful and overall perfect!. I served with grilled asparagus, mini corn on the cob, broccoli florets, and fried sweet plantains. I highly recommend!
excellent…used fresh lemon garlic cloves..after baking for 15 minutes placed under the broiler to brown. M:;;;;y husband;nd loved it
Fantastic!! I have an awful time cooking fish. My family loved it. Even my fish hating son. I added a little bit of chili powder for an extra kick.
This recipe was very good. I marinated the fish in my 13 x 9 baking pan overnight so the next day all I had to do was put it in the oven. Nice make ahead dish. The fish was very tender and flavorful. I have made this a few times now and will continue to make this often.
very good..i didnt have time to marinate it so i heated up the garlic and onions in the olive oil for a minute then covered the tilapia with it.served it over a bed of mushroom brown rice and side of sauteed brussell sprouts. fish was very good and would make again.
Simple as can be. I was in a rush with this one so I prepared my fillets with fresh crushed garlic, olive oil, pepper and crushed basil leaves. Oven baked with onions, omg, delicious. Thanks for sharing.
I am one that don’t really like seafood or too much garlic. I decided to try making 1 of the filets with this recipe. I didn’t see it said to let it set overnight until midway through. I didn’t have time to do that so I just prepared without letting it sit all night. I was really surprised how good this was. It didn’t have an overbearing garlic taste. We grilled it over foil. Even my daughter loved it! I gave it a 4 star only because of having to let it set overnight. I seem to find a lot of recipes like this lately, when I’m searching for last minute dinner choices.
Don’t know what I did wrong – but it was very bland – more onion taste than anything else. And my whole refrigerator smells like onions & garlic after its overnight marinade.
good basic recipe
I just like most people did tweek this just a bit, I had Flounder instead of tilapia. I also did not marinate it. I used olive oil, fresh garlic cloves sliced, scallions,mini heirloom tomatoes and cayenne pepper, I broiled it for 5 min and baked at 400° for about 10 min. it came out soooo delicious!
This dish was so easy and had quite a bit of flavor. First I washed the Tilapia then I coated it with Garlic like it says then I poured the 3 Tsp’s of olive oil over the the fish making sure it was all coated nicely with the oil. Then I cut up my vidalia onion into chunks like the picture showed sprinkled it with some course sea salt and placed it in the refrigerator for 5 hours to marinate. I left off the black pepper and the cayenne pepper and it still had great flavor. Comments from my dinner guests were “this tastes great!” “it is so nice and moist” “I can’t believe you did not cover it and it did not burn…”. The fish was cooked as said however, I did not transfer from the marinade dish I used the same dish that the fish was marinading in not sure if that made a difference and I also used EVOO olive oil from Chile. Easy and Delicious!
This was a good recipe, but it needed a bit of reworking. I added more garlic, plus basil and parsley. I only had an hour before I baked it, so I had to make the ingredients in stacked format: fish, oil, salt, pepper, parsley, basil, garlic, fish, oil, etc., I then wrapped it in plastic wrap for an hour and placed in the refrigerator. After an hour, placed a tin foil tent in a cake pan and put the fish side by side in the tin foil tent, in the pan. I baked the fish in it for 30 minutes at 350. The tent out of tin foil allows steam to build up and decreases the chances of the fish drying. I also cut red and yellow sweet peppers and onions and put over the top of the fish before securing the tent top. Tilapia can be a bit fishy, especially for young eaters. My young niece Maddie would love this recipe and she hates tilapia! You may need to decrease the garlic for young eaters, but my husband said it was the best tilapia he’s ever had. : )
This recipe was simple to make. However, when it was finished cooking, it was not aesthetically pleasing. I used a lot of garlic on these filets, and they did benefit from it. They were bland. The onions did not cook in a satisfactory way, either. My dining partner said the flavor profile was good, but it was a little too basic.