Tilapia are sometimes sold whole, but more often as fillets ... of its flesh makes it excellent for pan-frying, grilling, or deep-frying in a crisp beer batter.

Tilapia, especially when fried and eaten with rice or ugali, is a fish recipe loved among all Kenyan African communities. The key to this fried tilapia recipe is frying fish without a cornmeal coating ...

While being a very meaty fish, tilapia is also very versatile and when filleted can be quite light. Tilapia can handle a strong marinade but also succumbs very nicely to this more delicate version.