Crispy Baja Fish Tacos with Creamy Lime Sauce are so yummy, they’re sure to become a fast family favorite! They’re a healthy and tasty addition to your Tex-Mex menu.
Hi, Friends!
We’re gonna do better than just Happy Taco Tuesday today.
It’s midsummer, it’s gorgeous out, and that deserves a big ‘ol: Happy Crispy Baja Tacos with Creamy Lime Sauce Day! 😋
We are embracing all the opportunities to celebrate big and small things today, because we finally are on the other side of Sickness Mountain.
Never have our peeps been so sick and up to our neck in antibiotics all at once. I counted 10 doctor’s visits in 1 month. In midsummer, no less. We’ve been trading camping, swimming, and parties for days of laying on the couch.
Even The Bulldog got an ear infection. Wish I were kidding.
So yeah. We’re totally celebrating big and small things now that we’re feeling human again.
That’s why we’re going way beyond plain old Taco Tuesday today…
It’s been forever and a day since we’ve set foot in our favorite little San Diego style taco hangouts. So many scrumptious hole in the wall eateries.
I absolutely took my proximity to such tasty establishments for granted. #excalifornian
These days we whip up our own crispy Baja fish tacos with creamy lime sauce.
The fish is tender and perfectly crispy with a light batter. The zesty lime sauce is a dreamy covering for fish tacos – tastes just like I remember back in SD.
The fixings are like cherries on a sundae. Plenty of crunchy veggies, tomatoes, salsa, Chunky Guacamole if you like (who doesn’t like,) cilantro, and extra lime. Never forget the extra squeeze of lime.
The best part: pile up your own fish tacos just the way you like them.
Create. Eat. Repeat.
Enjoy.
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Crispy Baja Fish Tacos with Creamy Lime Sauce are so fantastic, these are sure to become a fast family favorite! They’re healthier and tastier than regular tacos. Make them part of your Taco Tuesday rotation.
Ingredients
- For Creamy Lime Sauce:
- 1/2 cup plain yogurt
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- Juice of 1 lime
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 2–3 sprigs fresh dill
- 1/2 tsp to 1 tsp cayenne, to taste
- kosher salt and freshly ground black papper to taste
- For Fish Tacos:
- 1 Recipe for Beer Battered Fish
- Homemade tortillas or 1 package tortillas (corn or flour are both good)
- 1/2 head romaine lettuce, shredded
- 2 vine-ripened tomatoes, diced
- cilantro for garnish
- Garnish suggestions: sliced avocado, AuthenticChunky Guacamole, lime slices
Instructions
- Make Creamy Lime Sauce: Mix together yogurt and mayo. Stir in lime juice. Stir in cumin, dill, and cayenne. If desired, add dash of salt and black pepper to taste. Set sauce in fridge (make ahead for flavors to meld.)
- Follow directions for Beer Battered Fish.
- Warm up tortillas to soften. Assemble fish tacos, with desired garnishes and creamy sauce while fish is crispy and hot!
Notes
Prep ahead: Have all your fixings ready to go, including sauce. Fry fish right before ready to eat. Enjoy while still crispy and hot.
Note: This recipe works well with grilled fish, too.
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Beyond the Taco…
Tacos are a great way to celebrate! I’m from Mexico and that’s what we eat when we want to celebrate – or are sad… mostly all the time haha! Never tried this taco style so I must try it soon!!
Oooh, I should be asking you for some recipes, Krizia! 🙂
I saw them make fish taco on masterchef once, and was like: Wow! I would never have thought about that. A great way to get many vegetables at the same time.
Oh, I wish I saw that episode! 🙂
Fish tacos are one of my favorite thing to order when we go out to eat, but I’ve never attempted to make them at home. But creamy lime sauce? Oh I think I need t put my cooking skills to the test to try that!
Have fun and hope you love it, Allison! 🙂
My boyfriend just recently caught a bunch of cod. I think I am going to try this recipe to use some of it in tacos! YUM!
Hope you guys love it, Steph! That’s an awesome use of cod. Thanks for coming over 🙂
Everything here looks absolutely incredible!!! This totally got me craving for tacos! 😀
Can’t go wrong with tacos 🙂 Thanks for coming over, Jason!
Tacos are a must have at least once during the week.. They are so easy but can be packed with flavor.
Agreed, Kristal! My middle little always asks for tacos 😉
Oh my goodness. These look so yummy! You can never go wrong with a taco.
So true, Keisha! 🙂 Enjoy and thanks for visiting!
My daughter is big fan of tacos, i have few taco shells in pantry, will definitely try this recipe.
Hope you guys love them 🙂
I love tacos and finding new creative ways to make them. Never thought of the lime before as a garnish. The sauce looks delicious.
My littlest eats lime by itself, silly little dude 😉 Enjoy, Elisha!
yummy! those looks so tasty! I’ll try it! thanks for recipe!
So glad you like these, Filiz!
Considering the fact that I just ate tacos before reading this, it’s easy to say I love tacos lol. I am not a fan of fish but that creamy lime sauce sounds like heaven! I have my own homemade sauces I use, but I would definitely add this to the line up!
The lime sauce would work for chicken, too. I agree…homemade sauces are the best 🙂 🙂
This looks so delicious! I think every day should be Taco Tuesday!
I know, just do away with the Tuesday 😉
You always make me want to go to the grocery store. Now I have a taste for fish tacos..which I love VERY much by the way!
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LOL, thanks, Candy! 🙂
This is perfect! My family have been watching our diet and lately it has all been fish. So this is definitely timely as I’m looking for variety of ways to serve fish, and that’s why I’d be checking the beer battered fish as well.
Sounds fantastic, Summer! Hope you guys love it. P.S. We sometimes do this with grilled fish, too, so that’s another healthy option 🙂
Tacos is a Mexican style of food preparation. I am not aware of this for I have never seen one here in our place. I am not used to going to foreign resto especially I live in a small city whic lacks foreign business ventures being established here. Anyway, I love eating these foods if I could have a chance.
Thanks, Gil! 🙂
Fish tacos are a family fav over here, and that lime sauce sounds amazing! Already printed the recipe!
So glad you’re trying it, Laura! 🙂 Yay!
I love tacos. I will definitely try it to look delicious and tasty and the lime sauce sounds perfect in fish tacos. Already printed the recipe!
Yay, thanks, Elizabeth! 🙂
I love fish tacos!! They are my favorite. I’m should make this for dinner tonight!
Yay, glad you like this, Nicole! 🙂
I LOVE tacos! The only thing I love more then tacos are fish tacos 🙂 I want to eat this right now!
Looks like one awesome recipe. Tacos is always a very refreshing and fresh food. I might try out a veggie version of this!
You can really play around with the ingredients for this one. It also looks tasty and can be a meal substitute.
My family and I enjoyed fish tacos when we visited LA last summer. I read the ingredients of the creamy lime sauce and my mouth watered in approval. Should make and taste.
I was curious looking at your recipe. I have not tried avocado with onions, though I love eating both, separately at least. Although I like tacos in salsa, maybe this simple ingredients may open up a whole new taco experience for me.
These all look amazing!! Your pictures are making me so hungry 🙂
Yay, that means I’m doing my job 😉 Thanks, Kelly!
i HAD NEVER MADE FISH TACO’S BEFORE. MADE THIS FOR MY FAMILY OF 10. THEY LOVED IT. SOOOO GOOD.
★★★★★
That’s amazing, Elizabeth!! So so happy to hear your family loved these tacos. YAY! 🙂