Healthy Fish Tacos
photo by KateL
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 17
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 1 avocado, peeled, pitted and cut into eighths
- 1⁄3 cup buttermilk
- 2 garlic cloves, minced, divided
- 1 lime, juice and zest of
- kosher salt
- pepper
- 3 cups napa cabbage, shredded
- 1 1⁄2 cups carrots, grated
- 1⁄4 cup cider vinegar
- 1⁄4 teaspoon sugar
- hot sauce
- 1 lb tilapia fillet, cut into 8 pieces
- whole wheat flour
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil (I used canola)
- 4 (8 inch) corn tortillas
- jalapeno pepper, sliced, garnish
- fresh cilantro, chopped, garnish
directions
- Heat oven to 200 degrees F.
- In a food processor, combine the avocado, buttermilk, 1 garlic clove, lime juice and salt and pepper. Puree until smooth. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl combine the coleslaw ingredients (cabbage, remaining garlic and next 4 ingredients (-hot sauce) and the remaining garlic. Season with salt and pepper and set aside.
- Heat a heavy skillet (I used cast iron) and toast tortillas one at a time, 30 seconds or so per side - as they cook place them on a sheet of foil - wrap foil around them and place in oven to keep warm.
- In a pie pan combine 1 cup flour, 1 tablespoon salt and 1 teaspoon pepper. Dredge each piece of fish in mixture, shaking off excess.
- In a large skillet over medium high heat, heat 1 tablespoon of the oil and add half of the fish to the pan, cook turning once until golden. Transfer fish to an oven-safe place and keep warm in oven. Repeat with remainder of the fish.
- To serve: top each tortilla with a bit of the avocado sauce, then a piece of fish and then with the cabbage mixture (which should have been drained or excess liquid). Serve with jalapenos and cilantro.
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Reviews
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The avocado sauce and the coleslaw mix tasted awesome! The fish tasted good and normal (an opportunity here to "blacken"). Several times the recipe called for salt and pepper; the recipe could be improved to give quantities, as I wondered what I would end up with. For the flour mix, the amount of flour could be reduced to 1/2 cup and still have enough for easy coverage; in Step 5 specific amounts were given but these were not listed among the ingredients (I like to line up my ingredients in order of use like a countdown). It would be helpful if Step 7 gave some estimated cooking times. I was very impressed with the avocado sauce that didn't blacken while standing and that allowed me to cover a good bit of the tortilla. The coleslaw mix began to get soggy; the carrots would have stayed crisper had I used my old-fashioned grater rather than the new Microplane grater which grates too finely for this purpose. For half a recipe's worth of coleslaw mix, I used 4 drops of Crystal hot sauce, and wished I had used a drop more for a bit more tang. I don't remember 2 toppings such as the avocado sauce and the coleslaw mix that excited me as much on previous fish tacos, so I will definitely revisit this recipe! Made for Please Review My Recipe tag game.
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