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Tilapia

Oreochromis niloticus, Oreochromis mossambicusAlso called GIFT

Tilapia is a fish whose muscle is eaten. Cooks bake, deep-fry, grill, shallow-fry, or steam it, and pair it with rice or bulgur.

  • Fish
  • Gluten-free
  • Allergen: fish

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Part used
Muscle
Family
Cichlidae
Cooked most in
Asia
Top country
Indonesia
Tilapia, market

Photo: Rup11 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use tilapia

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Bake
  • Deep fry
  • Grill
  • Shallow fry
  • Steam

Preparing it

The whole fish can be battered before pan-frying.

Goes well with

Shopping

Choosing and storing tilapia

Availability
Supermarkets (01M6Z352THTQS2JKSGGCM8MVNT)

Around the world

Where tilapia is cooked

2 dishes in the catalogue use tilapia. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list tilapia among their ingredients.

Origins

Native to
Africa

On the table

Dishes made with tilapia

1 of the 2 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Natinombur

    Indonesia

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include tilapia.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: tilapia in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
Contains: fishChecked and not found: soy, eggs, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
From: fishChecked and not found: egg, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
None

Family

Related forms

A kind of
fish

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What tilapia is called

Names in 61 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Oreochromis niloticus

  • French

    Tilapia du Nil · Oreochromis niloticus

  • Italian

    Oreochromis niloticus

  • Portuguese

    Tilápia-do-nilo · Tilapia nilotica · Sarotherodon niloticus · Oreochromis niloticus

  • German

    Oreochromis niloticus · Nil-Tilapia · Niltilapie

  • Dutch

    Oreochromis niloticus

  • Greek

    Τιλάπια του Νείλου

  • Turkish

    Nil tilapyası

  • Russian

    Нильская тиляпия

  • Polish

    Tilapia nilowa · Oreochromis niloticus

  • Arabic

    بلطي نيلي

  • Persian

    تیلاپیای نیل

Show all 61 languages

  • Afrikaans

    Nylkurper · Oreochromis niloticus

  • Albanian

    Oreochromis niloticus

  • Aragonese

    Oreochromis niloticus

  • Asturian

    Oreochromis niloticus

  • Balinese

    Tilapia Nil

  • Bangla

    নাইলোটিকা

  • Basque

    Oreochromis niloticus

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    Oreochromis niloticus

  • Bulgarian

    нилска тилапия · Oreochromis niloticus

  • Catalan

    tilàpia del Nil · Oreochromis niloticus

  • Cebuano

    Oreochromis niloticus

  • Chinese

    尼羅口孵非鯽 · 尼羅口孵魚 · 尼罗罗非鱼 · 吉富罗非鱼

  • Czech

    tlamoun nilský · okounovec nilský

  • Dinka

    Atuur

  • Egyptian Arabic

    بلطى نيلى

  • Esperanto

    Oreochromis niloticus

  • Ewe

    Akpafiatsi

  • Extremaduran

    Oreochromis niloticus

  • Finnish

    niilintilapia · Tilapia · Oreochromis niloticus

  • Galician

    Oreochromis niloticus

  • Hebrew

    אמנון היאור

  • Hungarian

    nílusi tilápia

  • Icelandic

    Beitarfiskur

  • Ido

    Oreochromis niloticus

  • Indonesian

    Ikan nila

  • Interlingua

    Oreochromis niloticus

  • Interlingue

    Oreochromis niloticus

  • Irish

    tioláipia Níleach

  • Japanese

    ティラピア · ナイルティラピア

  • Javanese

    Iwak Nila

  • Korean

    나일틸라피아

  • Latin

    Coracinus

  • Lithuanian

    nilinė tilapija

  • Macedonian

    нилска тилапија

  • Malagasy

    Tilapia Neily

  • mnw

    ကဏေန်

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    Nilmunnruger · Oreochromis niloticus · Tilapia nilotica

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    Nilmunnrugar

  • Occitan

    Oreochromis niloticus

  • Romanian

    Oreochromis niloticus

  • Rundi

    Ingege · Oreochromis niloticus

  • Scots

    Oreochromis niloticus

  • Simplified Chinese

    尼罗口孵非鲫

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    尼罗口孵非鲫

  • Simplified Chinese (Singapore)

    尼罗口孵非鲫

  • Slovenian

    nilska tilapija

  • Sundanese

    Nila

  • Swedish

    Oreochromis niloticus

  • Thai

    ปลานิล · นิล · ปลานิลจิตรลดา

  • Traditional Chinese

    尼羅口孵非鯽

  • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)

    尼羅口孵非鯽

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    尼羅口孵非鯽 · 尼羅口孵非鯽(尼羅非鯽 · 南洋鯽仔 · 尼羅吳郭魚

  • Ukrainian

    Тиляпія нільська · Нільська тиляпія · Oreochromis niloticus

  • Vietnamese

    Rô phi sông Nin · Rô phi vằn · Oreochromis niloticus

  • Volapük

    Oreochromis niloticus

  • Waray

    Oreochromis niloticus

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos
  • Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q311170

Photos

Photo: Rup11 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons