MombasaFish
Boneless · freshwater
Mild, tender and family-friendly — the easiest fillet to cook and the gentlest on the budget. Pan-fry, bake or stew.
KES 1,600 per kg
| English name | Tilapia Fillets |
|---|---|
| Swahili name | Boneless · freshwater |
| Scientific name | Oreochromis niloticus |
| Family | Cichlidae — freshwater |
| Caught | Kenyan freshwater. This is the one product besides salmon that does not come from the Indian Ocean, and we label it plainly. |
| Method | Freshwater — farmed and lake-caught, not from our boats |
| Sold by | Per kilogram |
| Price | KES 1,600 / kg |
~96 kcal · 20 g protein · 1.7 g fat · high in protein, low in fat
Very lean, very mild and inexpensive — the easiest fish to introduce to children and to people who think they dislike fish.
Nutritional values are approximate, per 100 g raw edible portion, and vary with size and season. This is general information, not medical or dietary advice.
Pan-fry, bake or stew. Tilapia is mild to the point of neutral, so it takes on whatever you cook it with.
Goes well with: Tomato stew, garlic, lemon, ugali
Every order is cleaned to your preference — scaled, gutted, filleted, cut into steaks or left whole. Choose at checkout.
Fillets have no skin or bone to protect them. Keep at 0–4 °C, cook within 1–2 days, or freeze immediately at −18 °C for up to 3 months.
Keeps: 1–2 days refrigerated · 3 months frozen
Every fish is looked over by hand before it is packed. These are the four things we check, and they are the same four you should check when it reaches you.
Then it is packed. On ice, in a sealed EPS cooler that holds cold for up to 72 hours. Mombasa goes the same day by rider; everywhere else travels by express courier or bus.
Do these four checks yourself when it arrives. If any of them fails, send one photograph within 24 hours and we replace the item or refund it — we never ask you to send fish back. Read the guarantee.
No — tilapia is a freshwater fish. We say so clearly because everything else we sell is Indian Ocean and traceable to Shimoni.
Freshwater tilapia is farmed at scale and costs less to produce than a hand-caught reef fish.
