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
This looks delicious, very fresh and summery!
this looks wonderful – I love fish tacos and will absolutely try out the salsa as guava is one of my favourite fruits, though so sad it is not easy to source in the UK
Oh my goodness wonderful flavours, definitely going to give this and your other Sierra Leone recipes, I love coriander and guava! Fantastic recipe ty
I absolutely LOVE fish tacos and I want to kick myself for not making them at home, Bintu! No excuses…I just don’t. You’ve inspired me to change that. The guava salsa has me very intrigued though my version will be sans cilantro 😉
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.