This Healthy Grilled Tilapia Recipe is just 190 calories, packed with protein, and so easy to make!
In just 8 minutes, and with just 3 ingredients, you can make healthy tilapia on BBQ recipes for tacos or main courses.

This easy recipe for grilled tilapia uses a homemade seasoning blend… but you can easily pick up a packet of taco seasoning from the store instead!
And we’ve cut the calories with olive oil spray, though you can also brush a teaspoon of olive oil over the tilapia fillets instead.
This Healthy Grilled Tilapia Recipe is just 190 calories, packed with protein, and so easy to make!
Healthy Grilled Tilapia Recipe
This article will supply you with everything you’ll need to barbecue tilapia for tacos and main dishes.
From a shopping list, to a printable recipe card. You’ll find a nutrition label and learn how to make healthy tilapia recipes on the grill in just 8 minutes (including prep time).
To make this BBQ tilapia recipe easy, we’ve supplied you with the following sections.
Read through them for helpful resources, or skip ahead to the recipe card.
What You’ll Find in this Article:
- Ingredients in Tilapia Fillet Recipes (shopping list!)
- How to Cook Grilled Tilapia
- Healthy Grilled Tilapia Recipe (recipe card!)
- Nutrition and Calories in Grilled Tilapia
Helpful Tip for Shopping: Take a screenshot of the shopping list to your phone. This way you have it at your fingertips the next time you go grocery shopping.
Recipe Card Uses: You can email yourself this recipe card so you can easily search for it (I have a folder in my email just for recipes!) Or print it so you have it handy, and can make notes. You can even pin these healthy tilapia recipes to Pinterest so it is safely stored for you.
Up next, a shopping list for 3 ingredient grilled tilapia recipes…
Ingredients in Tilapia Fillet Recipes
You only need 3 ingredients to make this grilled tilapia fillet recipe!
And just incase you don’t want to make the Homemade Taco Seasoning. Or don’t have the Olive oil spray, we have some substitutes for you.
- Tip #1 – You can use store-bought Taco Seasoning in place of homemade. Just be sure to use the amounts in the recipe card, as a whole packet is way too much.
- Tip #2 – If you don’t have, or don’t want to use olive oil spray, rub the tilapia fillets in 1 teaspoon of olive oil.

Shopping List for Easy Tilapia Recipes:
- Tilapia fillets
- Olive oil spray
- Homemade Taco Seasoning (or store-bought)
Special Tip: You can find all the measurements in the recipe card below. There you can choose how many servings of these low calorie tilapia fish recipes you want to make. It will do all the measurement math for you! All of the ingredients for our easy tilapia recipe can be doubled or tripled with the click of a button.
Up next, how to make BBQ tilapia fillets…
How to Cook Grilled Tilapia
The great thing about cooking tilapia, is that it’s ready in minutes. Making it a great quick dinner recipe!
If you don’t have a grill, you can make these tilapia fillets on the stove top. Simply follow the directions below, but use a grill pan!

How to Make Grilled Tilapia Recipes:
- Preheat grill to medium high heat.
- Spray oil on both sides of tilapia filets.
- Sprinkle with taco seasoning.
- Place on the hot grill, and cook for 3 minutes, flip and grill for an additional 2 minutes.
- Remove from grill, and serve hot.
Special Tip: You can find these directions, along with measurements, nutrition and more in the sharable recipe card in the next section!
Up next, a sharable recipe card for the best tilapia recipes… (Plus a bonus tilapia fish tacos recipe!)
Healthy Grilled Tilapia Recipe
This healthy tilapia recipe is easy and fast… And just incase you were planning on making tilapia tacos, we’ve supplied you with a bonus recipe for those as well.
Try these Tilapia Fish Tacos:


Healthy Tilapia on BBQ (JUST 190 CALORIES)
Equipment
- Grill or Barbecue
Ingredients
- 2 lbs tilapia fillets
- Olive oil spray
- 2 teaspoons Homemade Taco Seasoning or store-bought
Instructions
- Preheat grill to medium high heat.
- Spray oil on both sides of tilapia filets.
- Sprinkle with taco seasoning.
- Place on the hot grill, and cook for 3 minutes, flip and grill for an additional 2 minutes.
- Remove from grill, and serve hot.
Nutrition
Nutrition and Calories in Grilled Tilapia

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