A "real" fish taco consists of a dense whitefish battered and fried, with a mayo based cabbage slaw served on a corn tortilla.
I use THIS Cole Slaw recipe. It is best made the day before or earlier in the day and refrigerated to let the flavors marry.
Here is my recipe, made from a conglomeration of other people's recipes. =)
First the fish.
Buy a bag of frozen Cod or Mahi Mahi and thaw as much as you want according to directions. Make sure there are no bones! Rinse in cold running water, and cut fillets into "taco" sized pieces.... 4inches by 1 1/2 inches maybe. pat dry with paper towels.
The batter coating I used is flour, egg, and "New Orleans Seasoned Fish Fry" breadcrumbs (found in the baking isle of Walmart).
Whisk the egg in a bowl. Have a plate with flour and a plate with bread crumbs. Put your bowl with the whisked egg between the plates so its flour- egg- breadcrumbs.
Pour about 2 inches of canola (because it has a high scorch temp) oil in a tall sided large non-stick skillet. Heat at medium high. You can tell the oil is hot enough when the top gets all wavy.
Take one fish piece at a time and coat in flour, then egg, then bread crumbs and place in the skillet. I put 6 fillets cut up and in my skillet at the same time before I flip the first one I put in. You can tell when they need turned, they look practically cooked through already.
While the fish was cooking I sliced the avocado.
Total frying time was ?15-20? minutes, my cooking fault is, I go "That looks about right!". Remove fish and put it on a plate with paper towels to drain excess oil.
in a separate small pan, you can fry corn tortillas in about 2 Tbs oil. just for 15 seconds on each side, not till totally fried. I layer these between paper towels to drain excess oil and keep them warm in the oven on the lowest setting.
If you have an aversion to corn tortillas like my husband, then feel free to use flour tortillas.
Add some chopped Cilantro if you like!
Here is the Finished Product. Sorry, I'm no photographer!
Put your fish in your tortilla, top with Bobby Flay's Creamy Cole Slaw and avocado, and make your tummy happy! Fish Taco's are messy, but all good food is! Even our kids ate up the "de-constructed" tacos we gave them!
Here is your ingredient list:
Dense white fish. as much as you'll use. I use Cod.
Flour
1 Egg
New Orleans Seasoned Fish Fry breadcrumbs.
Canola Oil
Corn Tortillas
Not really optional:
Bobby Flay's Creamy Cole Slaw
Optional:
Avocado
Cilantro
Thats it! Thanks!
Feed My Fish Tacos please! They're simple, and YUMMY!
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