Baja's Fish Tacos

Recipe courtesy Liz Pudwill

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Cook Time:
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Level:
Intermediate
Yield:
4 to 6 tacos

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Ingredients

Vegetable oil, for frying
1 red salmon fillet, skinned, boned, and cut into 2-inch strips
Beer Batter, recipe follows
Salt
4 to 6 flour tortillas
1 cup shredded cabbage
Chipotle Mayonnaise, recipe follows
Tomatillo Salsa, recipe follows

Directions

Heat a heavy skillet with 1/2-inch vegetable oil until hot, not smoking. Dip fish in batter to coat evenly, and lay fish strips in pan, not touching. Cook until golden, about 2 to 3 minutes. Turn and cook until golden. Drain on paper towels and season with salt, to taste.

Heat a dry cast iron or heavy skillet and warm flour tortillas until heated. Assemble tortillas by layering fish, cabbage, mayonnaise, and salsa.

Beer batter:

3/4 cup white flour

Dash yellow mustard

Beer to make batter consistency of pancake batter

Stir together until incorporated.

Chipotle mayonnaise:

1/2 cup mayonnaise

2 tablespoons milk

1 or 2 smoked, canned chipotle chiles

Put ingredients in a bowl and mix.

Tomatillo salsa:

1 cup chopped canned or fresh tomatillo

1/4 cup chopped canned or fresh jalapeno peppers

1/4 cup diced onion

1/4 cup chopped cilantro leaves

1/4 cup canned green chiles

Process ingredients together, and then simmer over medium high heat until just boiling. Serve warm. If using fresh ingredients, simmer until cooked.

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recipe Baja's Fish Tacos
Anonymous 11-25-2007
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AWESOME
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

So good, even my 4 year old loved them
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Allison Lubbock, TX 07-25-2007
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Dang good, I tell you what!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

This recipes is excellent. I've done it with salmon and tilapia (prefer the white fish). The chipotle mayo is outstanding! I... haven't tried the tomatillo salsa yet, but after reading the reviews, I might have to next time! These fish tacos are superb and up there with the fish tacos I've had at Berry Hill in Houston, TX (the best fish tacos I've had in a restaurant ever)!!!Read more
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Alethea Woods Cross, UT 03-01-2007
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tasty
Rated: 4 stars out of 5

Turned out really good...love the chipotle mayo addition.
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KATHLEEN Monarch Beach, CA 02-19-2006
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Great Beer Batter
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

The beer batter is great!
recipe Baja's Fish Tacos
Tracy Lake Forest, CA 01-23-2006
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I Thought I was in Mexico
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

These were unbelievable! I am on a budget so we used tilipia instead of salmon. Awesome!
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Anonymous 09-03-2005
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Fabulous fish tacos
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

This recipe was pretty easy and tasted delicious!! I will make this many times over.