Golden Tilapia in Lime and Thyme

Name: Golden Tilapia in Lime and Thyme
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Americas
Ingredients: ½ tsp pepper; 1½ tbsp chopped thyme leaves sunflower or groundnut oil, for frying green salad or Caribbean Griddled Aubergine, to serve; 2 tbsp plain flour; 4 skinned tilapia fillets (about 450 g/1 lb. in total), or other firm white fish such as snapper; juice of 3 limes; 1 lime, cut into halves; coarse sea salt; 1 tsp salt

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Caribbean Food Made Easy

By Levi Roots

Published 2009

About

I first tasted tilapia in Africa, then it became popular in Brixton market and now it’s widely available. It’s a great fish with a really firm flesh.

Ingredients

4 skinned tilapia fillets (about 450 g/1 lb. in total), or other firm white fish such as snapper

Americas
Dinner
Pescatarian

Method

Put the fish in a shallow dish with the lime juice. Cover and let it marinate in the fridge for 30 minutes or up to a couple of hours.
Mix the flour with the salt, pepper and thyme. Take the fish out of the lime juice and pat dry with kitchen paper. Dip in the seasoned flour and put to one side.
Put enough oil in a large frying pan to lie