Tilapia with Sweet Honey and Fresh Lime

Yum! I went through a lime phase recently and ran across this rather tasty recipe. It’s quick, easy, and tasty! Definitely best if you marinate the fish for a while, but still good if you cook it immediately. Also, the recipe calls for baking the fish, but it’s equally good if you cook the fish on the stove top in a bit of olive oil.

INGREDIENTS

2 garlic cloves

1/4 cup of honey

3 tablespoons of lime juice

1 pound of tilapia fillets

Salt and pepper to taste

Poultry seasoning

1/2 cup of grated mozzarella cheese

DIRECTIONS

1. Mince the garlic.
2. Combine garlic, honey and lime juice in a large bowl or shallow dish.
3. Season the tilapia fillets with salt and pepper on both sides.
4. Place the tilapia fillets in the honey marinade and leave to marinate for at least 1 hour in the refrigerator.
5. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
6. Grease a baking dish with butter (or, in my case, spray oil).
7. Put the tilapia filets in the baking dish. (The marinade will not be used for sauce so you can discard it.)
8. Season with poultry seasoning.
9. Place the dish in the preheated oven and bake until the tilapia fillets can be easily flaked with a fork. This will normally take around 20 minutes.
10. Sprinkle the fish with mozzarella and bake until the cheese turns light brown. This will normally take around 5 minutes.