Please wait, the site is loading...

Baja fish tacos


Serves: 4
timePrep time: 40 mins
timeTotal time:
Baja fish tacos
Recipe photograph by Ant Duncan
These originated in Baja California, Mexico, and consist of crisp-fried fish, salsa, a tangy but creamy dressing and crunchy greens, all wrapped up in soft corn tortillas

Serves: 4
timePrep time: 40 mins
timeTotal time:

Rate this recipe
Print Print
See more recipes

Nutritional information (per serving)
Calories
658Kcal
Fat
27gr
Saturates
8gr
Carbs
74gr
Sugars
8gr
Fibre
6gr
Protein
27gr
Salt
1.8gr

Tamsin Burnett-Hall

Tamsin Burnett-Hall

Tamsin learned the tricks of the trade from cookery legend Delia Smith. A trusted recipe writer for the magazine for over 25 years, she is now our Senior Food Producer, overseeing testing and editing to ensure that every recipe tastes great, is straightforward to follow and works without fail. In her home kitchen, Tamsin creates fuss-free flavour-packed food for friends and family, with baking being her ultimate form of comfort cooking
See more of Tamsin Burnett-Hall’s recipes
Tamsin Burnett-Hall

Tamsin Burnett-Hall

Tamsin learned the tricks of the trade from cookery legend Delia Smith. A trusted recipe writer for the magazine for over 25 years, she is now our Senior Food Producer, overseeing testing and editing to ensure that every recipe tastes great, is straightforward to follow and works without fail. In her home kitchen, Tamsin creates fuss-free flavour-packed food for friends and family, with baking being her ultimate form of comfort cooking
See more of Tamsin Burnett-Hall’s recipes

Ingredients

  • 1 x 360g pack frozen basa fillets
  • 125g plain flour, plus 3 tbsp to coat
  • ½ tbsp Cajun seasoning (or 1 tsp ground cumin plus a pinch each of chilli
  • ½ tsp fine sea salt
  • vegetable oil to shallow fry
For the salsa and crema
  • 100g frozen diced avocado
  • 40g frozen chopped onion (or ½ fresh, diced)
  • 3 large vine tomatoes
  • 1 tsp frozen chopped chilli (or ½ fresh chilli)
  • 2 tbsp frozen chopped coriander (or fresh)
  • zest and juice of 1 lime (or 2 tbsp bottled lime juice), plus wedges to serve
  • 150ml soured cream
  • 4 tbsp light mayonnaise
To serve
  • 125g finely shredded sweetheart cabbage or crisp lettuce
  • 12 small white corn tortillas

Step by step

  1. Remove the basa fillets from the freezer, plus the diced avocado and onion for the salsa. Spread the avo and onion out on a plate to defrost (about 20-30 minutes). Put the basa fillets in a bowl of cold water and leave to stand for 10-15 minutes. Drain and pat dry then use a serrated knife to carefully slice each semi-frozen basa fillet into 3 roughly equal strips. Set aside on a plate. Put the extra 3 tablespoons of flour on another plate.
  2. For the salsa, core and dice the tomatoes (discard excess juice). Mix with the avocado, onion, chilli, coriander and half each of the lime zest and juice. In a separate bowl, combine the remaining lime zest and juice with the soured cream and mayo. Season to taste and set aside for the flavours to develop.
  3. Combine the flour, spices and salt in a medium bowl. Gradually whisk in 175ml cold water until you have a thick, smooth batter.
  4. Pour oil into a large frying pan to roughly 1cm in depth; place on a medium-high heat. Roll the strips of fish in flour (it’s fine if they aren’t completely defrosted yet) before adding them to the bowl of batter to coat well. When the oil is shimmering, carefully add the battered fish, a few pieces at a time. If necessary, cook in 2 batches (keeping the first batch hot in a low oven). Fry for 10-12 minutes, turning once or twice, until crisp and golden brown. Meanwhile, prepare the cabbage or lettuce, warm the tortillas and assemble everything on a board or tray.
  5. Briefly drain the battered fish on kitchen paper and sprinkle with a little salt. Serve up, for everyone to assemble their own fish tacos.

You might also like...


We value your privacy

We use cookies to help give you the best experience on our site and to allow us and third parties to customise the marketing content you see across websites and social media. For more information see our cookie policy.

Cookie Preference Centre

Learn more about what each cookie category does and choose your settings (toggle right to opt in or left to opt out). Cookie policy


Strictly Necessary

These technologies are needed to enable our websites and apps to run and to keep it secure.

Sainsbury's Magazine

These technologies tell us how customers use our sites and apps and provide information to help us improve the website, apps and your browsing experience.

Cookie name Duration
PHPSESSID Until the browsing session ends
device_view 1 month
viewedRecipes 1 year
subscription-{popup-version-date}-PopupClosed 12 days

Vimeo

Enables Vimeo videos on the site

Cookie name Duration
_derived_epik 1 year

Constant Commerce

Enables shopping tools for recipe ingredients

Cookie name Duration
cc_a_h 10 years
cc_a_s Until the browsing session ends

DoubleClick

DoubleClick Digital Marketing (DDM) is an integrated ad-technology platform that enables us to more effectively create, manage and grow high-impact digital marketing campaigns.

Cookie name Duration
DSID 10 days
IDE 1 year
RUL 11 months

Performance/Analytics

These technologies tell us how customers use our sites and apps and provide information to help us improve the website, apps and your browsing experience.

Google

Google Analytics tell us how customers use our sites and apps and provide information to help us improve the website, apps and your browsing experience.

Cookie name Duration
__gads 13 months
gadsTest Until the browsing session ends
_ga 28 months
_gat 1 minute
_gid 1 day
1P_JAR 1 month
ANID 10 days
CONSENT 18 years
NID 6 months
__Secure-3PAPISID 2 years
__Secure-3PSID 2 years
__Secure-3PSIDCC 1 year

Marketing/Targeting

These technologies help us decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you. We use this data to customise the marketing content you see on websites, apps and social media. They also help us understand the performance of our marketing activities. These cookies are set by us or our carefully-selected third parties.

Pinterest

Pinterest conversion tracking gathers conversion insights and builds audiences to target based on actions our visitors have taken on the site.

Cookie name Duration
_pinterest_ct_rt 1 year
_pinterest_ct_ua 1 year
_pin_unauth 1 year

Outbrain

These technologies tell us how customers use our sites and apps and provide information to help us improve the website, apps and your browsing experience.

Cookie name Duration
outbrain_cid_fetch 5 minutes
adrl 5 weeks
apnxs 6 weeks
criteo 2 months
obuid 6 months

Twitter

Twitter conversion tracking enables us to measure our return on ad spend by tracking the actions people take after viewing or engaging with our ads on Twitter.

Cookie name Duration
personalization_id 2 years
muc 2 years
ads_prefs 5 years
auth_token 5 years
dnt 5 years
guest_id 2 years
twid 5 years