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Bob Terwilliger[_1_] Bob Terwilliger[_1_] is offline
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Default If you were to make the perfect fish taco

Whirled Peas came up with these:

> Yellow corn tortilla, softened in oil, folded into a U shape and fried
> crisp; beer-battered cod (or any firm-fleshed white fish), deep fried;
> thinly sliced green cabbage; white sauce; homemade pico de gallo. For the
> white sauce, look up the recipe for "San Diego-Style Fish Taco Sauce":
> yogurt (or crema or sour cream), mayonnaise, cayenne, fresh jalapeρo, lime
> juice, capers, cilantro, cumin and dill weed. It's the best I've ever had.
> Hint: the sauce improves considerably with aging.
>
> Here's some other seafood taco fillings to consider, all but the last two
> served inside a freshly fried taco shell:
> • Battered mild fish with ginger/peanut/sesame sauce and Napa cabbage
> • Crab cakes (taco shaped) and Tartar sauce with something
> • Crab, shredded Cheddar and mayonnaise, served hot
> • Crab, shredded Swiss and bacon with steamed summer squash and onion
> • Crab and lemony white wine sauce with finely shredded jicama
> • Oysters, breaded and fried, bacon and Swiss with Tartar sauce and
> shredded lettuce
> • Salmon croquettes (taco shaped), breaded and fried, with Tartar
> sauce
> • Grilled salmon fingers with dill/caper sauce and arugula
> • Seafood curry with chutney
> • Shrimp and minced green onion with a cream, tequila and lime
> reduction
> • Shrimp Remoulade with shredded lettuce and green onions
> • Shrimp, tomato, basil and Feta with fresh spinach and Tzatziki
> • Red salmon and rock scallop with chipotle and/or lime and/or ranch
> sour cream, mesclun, and julienned daikon on corn tortillas
> • Alaska halibut, dipped in egg white/lemon extract, then in flour and
> NM chile molido, pan fried. Corn tortilla, cabbage/sour cream slaw, lime
> juice dribbled on the fried fish
> • Coat the fish with Panko and bake instead of deep fry.
> • Marinated halibut with cilantro pesto. Strips of (marinated) jicama
> for crunch and crumbled cotijo. Use a freshly fried flour tortilla or pan
> fry them with the fish inside
> • Use pita bread and sprouts instead of taco shells and cabbage


Very creative! Thanks!

Bob