Tasty Tilapia Tacos!

Grilled fish tacos and Coronas. Sounds like a fabulous meal that you would eat while on your tropical vacation, doesn't it? OR it could be something that you make for yourself on a beautiful day in your own back yard. A one hour stay-cation. Fabulous!

I got this recipe from my Taste Of Home Magazine but I modified it a bit (recipe called for haddock but Tilapia was on sale and less intimidating). I would probably suggest using less chili powder in the veggie-mixture than I did because the flavor overpowered the fish a little but over all it was nice, cool and refreshing :-)

Ingredients:
1 lb. Tilapia
2 tsp. chili powder (divided)
Juice from 1 lime
1 1/2 tsp. grated rind from lime
2 cups shredded lettuce
1 medium red pepper seeded and chopped
2 medium tomatoes seeded and chopped
1 avacado peeled and chopped
3 Tbs taco sauce
2 ears sweet corn
1 Tbs butter (softened)
salt and pepper
12 Flour tortillas


Spread the butter over the corn, sprinkle with salt and pepper. Grill covered on medium heat for 10-12 minutes or until the corn is tender. Turn occasionally. Set aside to cool.

Once corn is cool enough to handle, remove it from the cob. Combine corn, lettuce, red pepper, tomato, avacado, lime rind, taco sauce, 1 tsp. chili powder and juice from 1/2 of the lime. Stir it up well.

Sprinkle 1 tsp chili powder onto the tilapia (or more chili powder if you feel like it). Grill on a well-oiled grill (to prevent sticking) on medium heat for about 8-10 minutes or until the fish flakes easily with a fork. Turning once. To prevent my fish from falling through the grill, I covered my grill with aluminum foil and then oiled the foil pretty generously to prevent sticking.

Cut fish into pieces and squeeze the juice from the second 1/2 of the lime on top. (I just put it in a bowl and broke it up with a fork but you could be more precise about it if you want)

Assemble tacos however you want. We also had sour cream and shredded cheese. Deeeelicious!