These crunchy fish tacos are like a party on the table, and the tacos can be customized to suit the picky to the gourmet eaters at your table.
While we think “dairy” when we think of Shavuos, we can all use some more pareve ideas too. My sister R. makes this fish and I thought it would make the perfect crunchy fish for tacos. You can also make them as fish sticks or fingers.
Fake It Don’t Make It: If you like the idea of making the tacos but aren’t looking to cook, you can use this recipe as inspiration. Use store-bought coleslaw or combine red cabbage mix with store-bought caesar or garlic mayo dressing. Use ready fish from the store or frozen fish sticks.
Crunchy Fish Tacos
Servings: 4 – 6
Ingredients
- 3-4 fillets tilapia
- ½ cup flour
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1 egg
- 2 tsp mustard
- 1 cup bread crumbs
- ¼ tsp garlic powder
- ½ tsp kosher salt
- dash ground black pepper
- ¼ tsp paprika
- 1 tsp Italian seasoning
- oil, for frying
Red Cabbage Slaw:
- 3 tbsp mayonnaise
- 2 tbsp water
- 1 tbsp oil
- squirt of mustard
- 2 tsp lemon juice
- 1 to 2 garlic cloves
- 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tsp salt
- 8 oz shredded red cabbage
Tomato Salad:
- 1 large tomato or 2 plum tomatoes, finely diced
- 1 scallion, thinly sliced
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ tsp coarse black pepper
Instructions
- In a shallow bowl, combine flour and baking powder. Whisk egg and mustard together in a second shallow bowl. In a third shallow bowl, season breadcrumbs with garlic powder, salt, pepper, paprika, and Italian seasoning. Dredge fish in flour, then egg, then breadcrumbs.
- Heat oil in a skillet and fry fish until crispy on both sides.
- In a small bowl, whisk together all the slaw dressing ingredients. Mix with the cabbage and let sit 10 minutes.
- In a medium bowl, combine tomato, scallion, olive oil, salt, and pepper.
- Warm up the tacos in oven, or place it directly over an open flame for 30 seconds on each side.
- To assemble the tacos, fill each taco wrap with fish cut into strips. Top with cabbage and tomato salads. Drizzle with additional garlic mayo if you like your sandwiches with lots of dressing.
Notes
If you don’t want to fry it, you can bake it. Preheat oven to 475°F. Coat the bottom of an oven-proof (such as cast iron) skillet with oil. Heat skillet over the stove until oil is hot and smokey. Add fish and spray the top with nonstick cooking spray. Place in oven until fish puffs up (it will not turn golden) about 8 minutes.
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Can any other fish be used instead of the tilapia in this recipe? And where can I get soft taco shells like.these?
Yes, you can use flounder. Most supermarkets sell wheat or corn soft tacos. Or you can buy corn ones on amazon – https://amzn.to/2rH4oIQ.
Can I bake instead of fry?
Made these tonight – yum! Baked flounder and cheated and did salad dressing with the purple cabbage. Looked so pretty on the plate with corn 🙂 thanks for a great recipe!