Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Easy fish tacos

This might be the perfect summer dish. We've made a version of these before, but you can't always get fresh halibut from the fish market in Santa Barbara! We used Trader Joe's battered halibut this time, which is really nice and makes the recipe super easy. Last time we garnished our tacos with pico de gallo, but this time we did a mango salsa. However, we still used Trader Joe's Cilantro Dressing (which is insanely good) for our fish taco sauce. In my last fish taco post I offered a substitute for the dressing, which I hadn't tried. I recently tried a sauce made with sour cream, chopped cilantro, lime, and salt, which was very good and I think would be a nice substitute if you don't have a TJ's nearby.




Ingredients
-frozen battered white fish, like halibut, tilapia, or cod
~6 tortillas
-packaged slaw
-TJ's Cilantro Dressing

Slaw
-mango, diced
-handful of cilantro, roughly chopped
-1 jalapeno, finely diced (use less depending on your spice preferences)
-juice from 1.5 limes
-1 red pepper, finely diced
-1 red onion, finely diced
-salt and pepper to taste

Steps
1. Cook fish as directed.

2. While fish is cooking, assemble the mango salsa by mixing all salsa ingredients together.
3. Once fish is done, heat tortillas for a few minutes in a skillet or the oven.
4. Assemble tacos with fish, slaw, dressing, mango salsa, and a squeeze of lime.