Fish Tacos Recipe - iFoodReal.com (2024)

The Best Fish Tacos Recipe with crispy battered fish, diced avocado, crunchy cabbage, and delicious, easy fish taco sauce. I promise, these fish tacos are better than any food truck!

We also love these grilled fish tacos.

This is the best fish tacos recipe! Yes, I’m that bold but just read reviews for yourself.

I think the best fish tacos are crispy, battered and fried, just like you get at any surf and turf joint. Fish has to be spicy and flavorful enough to help the plain veggies a bit.

It is a quick healthy meal you can make at home even on a busy weeknight! Fish tacos are a complete meal. So easy, just 25 minutes from fridge to table including making the fish taco sauce!

What Is the Best Fish for Fish Tacos?

The best fish for fish tacos is any firm white fish like wild cod, halibut, bass, haddock, rockfish, mahi mahi or snapper. This fish taco recipe uses battered fish rather than flaked fish, so choose fish that holds its shape well.

You can even use salmon or trout if that’s what you have. It does not have to be white fish but rather fish that doesn’t flake easily and fall apart.

Ingredients for Fish Tacos Recipe

As always, my fish tacos recipe ingredients are super simple. And I even give you options for flours to use.

• Fish: Any firm white fish fillets that holds its shape. Cod, halibut, bass, haddock, rockfish, mahi mahi or snapper are great. Tilapia will not work.
• Flour:Any flour works! Almond flour or almond meal, regular white flour or whole wheat flour, spelt flour, gluten free flour, or even breadcrumbs. Anything that will make fish crispy.
• Simple spices: I use homemade taco seasoning and garlic powder.
• Yogurt and mayo: I call my fish taco sauce healthy because I use 75% plain yogurt and 25% mayonnaise unlike any restaurant’s 100% mayo white sauce.
• Cabbage, tomato, avocado, fresh cilantro, and limeare our fish taco toppings but you can use what you have on hand.
• Tortillas: You can use corn tortillas or flour tortillas for serving. We use corn tortillas because they are more authentic and nutritious.

How to Make Fish Tacos

I doubled this fish taco recipe and tacos were gone by morning. So, if serving a crowd, definitely double the recipe!

There are 3 steps to making fish tacos: cook the fish, make the fish taco sauce and prepare the taco toppings. It doesn’t get easier than that.

Prep fish and its dredging: Cut fish into 1 inch cubes and in a medium bowl whisk flour, taco seasoning, garlic powder, cornstarch, salt and pepper.

To cook fish: Dip fish pieces into flour mixture and pan fry for 2 minutes per side in preheated large ceramic non-stick skillet on medium high heat.

Best Fish Taco Sauce

Make fish taco sauce while fish is cooking. In a medium bowl, whisk yogurt, mayo, fresh lime juice, taco seasoning, cayenne pepper and black pepper.

Adjust amount of cayenne pepper to your taste or add some sriracha if you like your fish tacos spicy. If the sauce is too thick, add 1 teaspoon of water at a time until desired consistency is reached. This could be the case if you used Greek yogurt.

I also like to transfer fish taco sauce to a drizzling bottle.

Fish Taco Toppings

The finishing touch on these fish tacos are the toppings! Set up a taco bar and let each family member customize their taco how they like them for a peaceful and delicious dinner.

Chop toppings:Thinly slice or shred the cabbage or lettuce. Freshly shredded cabbage adds the best crunch but store bought coleslaw mix or broccoli slaw will work as well. Dice avocado, tomato, cilantro and red onion. Crumble cotija cheese or feta cheese.

I like to place fish tacos toppings in a large baking dish, cover with linen towel and set aside.

To assemble tacos: Warm tortillas in a cast iron skillet on high heat for 10 seconds per side and press on them with spatula. It makes fish tacos extra delicious! Fill each tortilla with 3-4 pieces of fish, add toppings and drizzle with sauce.

What to Serve with Fish Tacos?

These fish tacos are quite filling meal, so you will not need many side dishes. Here are a few ideas:

• Fruity salsas: Sweet with heat mango salsa recipe, pineapple jalapeno salsa or pico de gallo round out flavors of any tacos very nicely.
• Guacamole and tortilla chips.
• I recommend to make this super easy Instant Pot corn on the cob.
• Instant Pot refried beans or quickly open a can of store bought pinto beans or black beans.

Tips for Best Results

Here are my top tips for the best fish tacos I have been making for past 7 years!

• Skip non-fat yogurt: Do not use 0% yogurt for the fish taco sauce because it will lack flavor.
• Fish cooks fast: So don’t over cook it, otherwise it will come out rubbery.
• Do not overcrowd the skillet: Leave room for air to flow between fish pieces to keep fish tacos coating crunchy.
• Double the recipe for 4+ people: I highly recommend to double this fish tacos recipe. Single recipe makes 9 tacos and I find we all want 3-4 tacos each. And nobody minds the leftovers.

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More Tacos Recipes to Try

These fish tacos are lower in calories, yet battered and fried (a must!), easy to make and a perfect weeknight dinner! Here are a few other our favorite taco recipes.

• Shrimp tacos
• Bang bang shrimp tacos
• Ground chicken tacos
• Carne asada tacos
• Ground turkey tacos
• Instant Pot shredded chicken tacos