Great easy taco recipe with freshest white fish your fishmonger can conjure up, ideally a firm thicker fish like halibut, true cod etc.
Ingredients:
- 1 lb true cod / halibut / thick white fresh fish
- Cabbage, thinly shredded (thin is key)
- Taco size flour tortillas
- Limes
Sauce ingredients
- 2/3 cup sour cream or Mexican crema
- 1 Tbsp lime juice
- 1 tsp lime zest; the zest from a single lime
- 1 small garlic clove, grated or pressed
- 1 tsp salt (then to taste)
- 1/2 tsp cumin
- pinch cayenne
Seasoning ingredients
- 1 tsp chili powder
- ½ tsp cumin
- ½ tsp smoked paprika
- Salt
Process
- Mix all the sauce ingredients then let sit
- Mix seasoning ingredients and spread evenly on both sides of fish. Let sit for a touch if you can 10 min
- Heat grill to nice n hot.
- Right before putting fish on lightly brush with olive oil on the side you are putting down first. Brush is key so that its light as possible for stickage
- Put oil side down for 3-4 minutes, oil the side thats up..also lightly
- Flip and cook to flakey / rare…
The build (this is crucial, bordering on art)
- Lightly heat a tortilla
- Spread a small touch of the sauce on tortilla
- Lay down appropriate amount of rare flaky fish and hit it with a small pinch of salt across the breadth
- Hit the fish with a good squeeze of lime and a generous amount of sauce across the breadth
- Top with shredded cabbage
- BOOOOOM
If you have it handy, add some tomatillo sauce (green) between steps 3 and 4…..
