Saturday, August 10, 2013

Cooking with no kitchen - Festive Grilled Tilapia

Prior to the kitchen saying bye-bye, we were on quite the tilapia kick.  It's super cheap, it's healthy and it hardly takes any time at all to cook.  With no oven, I was trying to think of a way to still have a home cooked dinner using our new favorite fish, and found inspiration from Food Network...I'm calling it Festive Grilled Tilapia.  This literally takes minutes to throw together, and the best part is you could put it together long before you eat it, then just pull it out of the fridge and throw it on the grill when you're ready to eat!

Festive Grilled Tilapia
Ingredients/items needed:
-Tilapia filets (as many as people eating)
-1/2 cup fresh salsa for each
-Olive oil
-1 lime
-Heavy duty aluminum foil or double up on regular aluminum foil (will make a pouch for each filet)

Process:
-Lay tilapia filet in the center of your foil
-Dump 1/2 cup of fresh salsa on top and spread out to cover the filet
-Drizzle olive oil (I used just under 1 tsp for each filet)
-Cut the lime in half and squeeze a bit on top
-Fold your grill pouch*
    *Fold the long sides together like you would a brown paper lunch bag, then lay the next fold flat
    *Fold the sides up once (it's okay if it's not tight - you want a little steam to be able to seep through)
-Repeat for as many filets/people as are eating
-Put pouches over high heat on the grill for 10 - 12 minutes
OR
-Stick pouches in the fridge until you're ready to grill 'em!


Turned out better than I expected (so good, in fact, that I forgot to take a pic of the finished product :)
I made this with a side of black beans (topped with feta, of course) and a garden salad.  A fabulous, quick and EASY home cooked meal - with no kitchen, no less!

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