Mexican
Baja Fish Tacos
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Baja Fish Tacos is Mexican home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Whisk the sour cream with the juice of one lime and a pinch of salt for the crema.
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Toss the cabbage with the juice of the second lime.
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Season the fish with the cumin, chili powder, paprika, and salt.
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Heat the oil in a skillet over medium-high and cook the fish until it flakes, about 3 minutes per side, then break into chunks.
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Warm the corn tortillas and fill with fish, cabbage, avocado, and cilantro.
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Drizzle with the lime crema and serve.
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Serve it with
A Mexican dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Baja Fish Tacos, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The protein alongside
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Baja Fish Tacos carries dairy and fish. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Albondigas en Caldillo de Chipotle (Meatballs in Chipotle Tomato Broth) |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Albondigas en Caldillo de Chipotle (Meatballs in Chipotle Tomato Broth) |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 540 kcal
- Protein
- 39 g
- Carbs
- 42 g
- Fat
- 24 g
- Fiber
- 4 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 190 mg
- Saturated fat
- 6 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Baja Fish Tacos takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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