Best Healthy Fish Tacos Recipes

HEALTHY FISH TACOS WITH MANGO SALSA

Steps:

• Stir mango, avocado, tomato, red onion, red pepper, parsley, canola oil, brown sugar, lime juice, cider vinegar, hot pepper sauce, salt, and ground black pepper together in a bowl. Refrigerate salsa for at least 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
• Heat taco shells in preheated oven until crisp, about 5 minutes.
• Season mahi mahi with 1 teaspoon ground black pepper, paprika, and 1/2 teaspoon salt.
• Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Cook mahi mahi in olive oil until fish flakes easily, about 3 minutes per side.
• Place mahi mahi slices in taco shells and top with mango salsa.

HEALTHY FISH TACOS WITH CILANTRO SLAW

Steps:

• Combine tilapia strips and 1/2 cup lime juice in a glass container. Cover with plastic wrap and marinate in the refrigerator for 3 to 4 hours.
• Combine yogurt, chipotle peppers, adobo sauce, hot sauce, and salt for spicy dressing in a blender or food processor; pulse until smooth. Refrigerate until needed.
• When ready to cook the tilapia, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Remove tilapia from the lime juice and shake off excess. Place in a small baking dish. Discard the remaining lime juice.
• Whisk 1/3 cup lime juice, honey powder, avocado oil, cumin, and paprika for honey-cumin sauce together in a small bowl. Pour over tilapia to cover.
• Bake in the preheated oven until fish flakes easily with a fork, 20 to 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, prepare slaw: Combine green and red cabbage, carrots, and cilantro in a bowl. Remove spicy dressing from the refrigerator and pour all but 1/4 cup over the slaw; toss to combine.
• Build tacos by putting 1 tablespoon remaining spicy dressing on each tortilla. Top with tilapia strips, slaw, and tomatoes.

HEALTHY FISH TACOS WITH CHIPOTLE CREAM

Steps:

• Mix the first three ingredients to make a sauce and set aside in a bowl.
• In a skillet, saute for 5 minutes the next 8 ingredients (butter through cilantro) Add the fish, cover and cook 3 minutes or until opaque.
• Remove from heat and stir in lime juice and zest.
• Have any additional condiments in seperate bowls and let each person"build" their own tacos.

HEALTHY BAJA FISH TACOS

Steps:

• Coat a frying pan with oil, then place over medium heat. Cook tilapia about 7 minutes per side, or until opaque and flaky.
• Meanwhile, in a small bowl, whisk together yogurt, lime juice and garlic salt.
• To assemble, place cooked tilapia in tortillas, top with cabbage, yogurt sauce and salsa.

HEALTHY FISH TACOS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 200 degrees F.
• In a food processor, combine the avocado, buttermilk, 1 garlic clove, lime juice and salt and pepper. Puree until smooth. Set aside.
• In a medium bowl combine the coleslaw ingredients (cabbage, remaining garlic and next 4 ingredients (-hot sauce) and the remaining garlic. Season with salt and pepper and set aside.
• Heat a heavy skillet (I used cast iron) and toast tortillas one at a time, 30 seconds or so per side - as they cook place them on a sheet of foil - wrap foil around them and place in oven to keep warm.
• In a pie pan combine 1 cup flour, 1 tablespoon salt and 1 teaspoon pepper. Dredge each piece of fish in mixture, shaking off excess.
• In a large skillet over medium high heat, heat 1 tablespoon of the oil and add half of the fish to the pan, cook turning once until golden. Transfer fish to an oven-safe place and keep warm in oven. Repeat with remainder of the fish.
• To serve: top each tortilla with a bit of the avocado sauce, then a piece of fish and then with the cabbage mixture (which should have been drained or excess liquid). Serve with jalapenos and cilantro.