Grilled Fish Tacos with Guava Salsa – Sierra Leone Flavours
West African recipe / Sierra Leonean Recipe – easy grilled fish tacos with guava salsa.
Bringing you an easy West African recipe today. These grilled fish tacos take me back to warm Sierra Leonean evenings, drinking cold ginger beer, piling guava salsa on grilled fish straight off the barbeque and catching up about this and that. Oh those days.
I have tried to recreate these healthy fish tacos here, using corn tacos instead of the Mediterranean bread wraps we would have used. But feel free to use whatever you have available in your pantry. It is all good.
Instead of taco sauce I have used a simple guava salsa to add some spice to wraps. Use the quantities of ingredients for the salsa as a guideline only as it depends on the size of the guavas, how ripe they are etc. Add more or less lemon and olive oil to your taste.
I hope you like these. I certainly do.
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Grilled Fish Tacos with Guava Salsa - Sierra Leone Flavours
Ingredients
For the grilled fish:
- 400 g (14oz) white fish fillets
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- 4 tbsp lime juice
- 2 tbsp chopped corinader (cilantro)
- 2 tsp chopped mild chilli (or to taste)
- Salt
For the guava salsa:
- 4 tomatoes finely chopped
- 4 sweet guavas - cored and finely cubed
- 4 spring onions (scallions) sliced
- 4 tsp olive oil
- 4 tsp lime juice
- 2 tbsp chopped coriander (cilantro)
- 1 tsp mild chopped chilli
- Salt
Instructions
- Add fish to a glass bowl, mix all the ingredients of the marinade together, pour over the fish and allow to marinate for 30 mins.
- Mix all the ingredients of the guava salsa together and let stand for 30 mins.
- Preheat the grill and grill the fish for about 4 mins on each side until cooked through.
- Flake fish and split evenly unto the tacos and top with guava salsa.
- Feel free to add extras like add extra like shredded cabbage, avocado etc.
Nutrition
Replace the fish with halloumi and I’m all yours. Do I get a bottle of ginger beer too?
Heck yes. Gingerbeer goes with everything.
I love the fresh clean flavours you have used and must try out your guava salsa, that sounds like a perfect accompaniment to the fish tacos.
Thanks Laura.
This looks so refreshing B. I have to try the guava salsa:)
I thought you might like this one Elsa.
I have never been to Sierra Leone, but you make it sound very enticing!
I hope you get to visit Sierra Leone one day Anna.
They look delicious and nice and simple to put together too.
They are Emily.
My mouth is literally watering at the thought of these. Thanks for sharing, I will definitely be trying this.
Whenever I make something like this I always forget that fish works so well! Thanks for the reminder, must make a note to use fish or prawns next time 🙂
I love fish and cook it a lot but have never thought to serve it like this. I have some Scottish Salmon fillets defrosting for dinner tonight and I’m going to Taco them up!
Hope the salmon tacos were ok.
That is making my mouth water. I bet it’s wonderfully fresh and zingy tasting. Perfect Lunch time snack.
It is a great zingy snack for sure
Delicious recipe Bintu! I often buy white fish fillets so this is something I really need to try, usually I make coconut and curry fish stew with them. Love addition of fresh guavas and I’m very intrigued too by the combination of flavours 🙂
Guavas are so good for you but I haven’t seen them around lately.
I bet these are really tasty, I love the combination of flavours. Guava for a salasa would be lovely and a really different take on spicing things up. GG
Those look absolutely delicious – just the sort of thing now the days are getting longer & warmer. Yum!
These look so fresh and light and are making me think of summer already.
Oh wow, they look delicious! I’ve only ever tried to make tacos with mince beef before. Will definitely have to give this a go especially with Spring knocking on our door. I think they’d make a really lovely weekend lunch for hubby and I.
The flavours are juts right for spring. Hope hubby like them.
I adore guavas, and have fond memories of visiting my relatives in India and eating the best beautiful sweet juicy guavas, sometimes fresh from the tree that we climbed up to reach them.
I have always struggled to find good ones here, sometimes they smell just right but when I cut them open they are woolly or gritty and with hardly any flavour. I guess something about them means the scent develops earlier than the fruit ripens.
This recipe looks like such a delicious combination of flavours.
Thank you so much for sharing this recipe. I’ve been trying to find a new way to enjoy fish and this could just possibly make it onto my favorites. Good for pescetarians, will have to share this with some friends.
I have never had guava in a fish taco before, but judging by the ingredients this is a must try.
Your warm summer memories took me to a place I would love to experience! Gorgeous recipe too! Hopefully our Shetland summer might be warm enough this year to bbq some fish 🙂
Thanks Elizabeth. I hope you get a great summer up your end.
These look so fresh and light, perfect for the summer.
Yeap, they will be great to eat over the coming warmer months.