Blackened Fish Soft Tacos. TRY THIS ONE!

Decided to give Fish Tacos a try. I’ve had them at the restaurants but never made them myself. Glad we did. Another excellent fish meal. The wife loved it and we will be making this again. Give this a try. You won’t be disappointed!

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Blackened Crappie Soft Tacos

Serves 2 (About 5-6 tacos)

1/4 cup chopped cilantro
2 cups bagged salad (lettuce with red cabbage and carrots)
1/4 cup salsa
3 tblspn salsa
1/3 cup sour cream
1 lb dry crappie fillets (or another type of white flesh fish)
Blackening seasoning
1/4 stick of unsalted butter
6" soft flour tortillas
Lime juice (optional)
Shredded Mexican blend cheese (optional)

In a medium bowl, mix the cilantro, salad and 1/4 cup salsa. Set aside.

In a small bowl, mix sour cream and 3tblspn of salsa. Set aside.

Blacken the crappie fillets as directed on seasoning. (Simply: Coat with melted butter, sprinkle on seasoning, throw in a red hot iron skillet til cooked). Break fillets into bite size pieces. Drizzle with lime juice if you like.

Warm up your soft tortillas.

Spread a tablespoon of the sour cream/salsa mixture on the tortilla. Place a nice portion of fish on the tortilla. Add some of the lettuce/salsa mixture. Sprinkle with cheese if you like. Fold in half and stuff your face. This stuff is awesome!

Enjoy!
Brian

Move over deep fryer there is a new game in town!

Those look great! I know what we are eating this weekend.

Thank you sir.

We made these tonight. Excellent! All I can say!. Thanks for the recipe freeflow! Gonna make this a regular. Smokes the house up but worth it.

I emailed this to my wife, keeping my fingers crossed...

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Originally Posted by fiddlefarter

We made these tonight. Excellent! All I can say!. Thanks for the recipe freeflow! Gonna make this a regular. Smokes the house up but worth it.

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Should have warned you! I didn't even think about that as I usually blacken my fish outside on the grill side burner.

At any rate, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks for the feedback.

I've blackened fish before so I knew it would smoke a lot. Was out of gas in the grill though, so we just put some windows up and turned the fan on.

For those that haven't blackened fish before you should use a cast iron skillet (wouldn't want to use an aluminum or stainless for this) and get it smokin' hot (don't think you could get it too hot) then you just toss the fish in for a second and then flip it. It cooks real quick.

Made this again last night. uhhhmm ummm.

Just wanted to put this one back out there again. It's really good!

freeflow you hit the head on the nail with this recipe....friggin awesome..mind if i steal it?

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Originally Posted by john h

freeflow you hit the head on the nail with this recipe....friggin awesome..mind if i steal it?

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not at all. Enjoy.

Topping the tacos with cole slaw is really good too! Think i'll make some tonight.

I had these for lunch thank you very much for the recipe

Had for supper, very good. Thanks for the receipe--shu

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Originally Posted by cavedave

Topping the tacos with cole slaw is really good too! Think i'll make some tonight.

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Absolutely. A lot of the restaurants use shredded cabbage.
A mexican joint up the street fried their fish in small bite size strips. It was pretty good too.
I think tacos are a hard one to mess up. Just a good change of pace from fried fillets.

Tried this recipe last night and it was quite delicious.

We tried corn tortillas and flour tortillas - the corn tortillas broke apart quite easily.

Very tasty stuff.

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Cheers.


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Man this sounds good. i have been looking for some crappie recipes other than deep frying. Can't wait to try it.

Awesome. Thanks for posting some pics Skinny.
AND serving it up with some margaritas. That's how to do it right!

That blacken smoke will take your breath away won't it!?!?! :D

Your seasoning looks really dark and heavy compared to the stuff I use. Mine is super spicy so I couldn't use that much of it. I have to barely coat mine or else I can hardly eat the tacos it so damn spicy! :eek:
And I like spicy stuff!

man tried it out saturday thanks got a new way to grill up some fish they really tasted good again thanks my buddy was down for the weekend he liked them to.

Looks good, If I had a friend to cook like some people do (Danny) it would be great. Great recipie freeflow!

4th time I made em, thanks Brian.
First time I didn't blacken, just seasoned & fried em gentle. Have used all kinds of tortillas & taco shells. I have this thing about storing food in zip-locks, I zip it almost shut then hermetically seal the bag to my mouth & suck the air out & seal. Found out what the cardboard wedge is for that comes in a box of pkged hard shell tacos. I put 4-5 remaining taco shells in bag, sucked, & immediately imploded all the shells, split em all in half at the fold.
No disater, anyone ever had taco pie? Crushed tortilla chips an ingredient (and got plenty leftover fish, pico de gallo, etc...

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Thanks Brian!!
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Thats very good i didn't have the stuff to make blackend fish . so Just added my own spices of salt, black pepper, lemon pepper , ground red chile pepper.

Broiled in the oven on broil 10 minutes on one side fliped the fillets over broil five minutes on the other side and they are done

taste great thanks for the idea.

Now i'm hungry, tried 'Old Bay Blackening Seasoning' with Freeflow 23's recipie and it's a keeper.--shu

Bumping this one cause it's freakin' delicious and I've been craving some fish tacos. Lack of fish really sucks when your craving fish. :)

Man I gotta try this one. I looks really good

Boy that looks good. I'm going to have to thaw out some filets and try that! Or go catch some fresh ones.

Looks like it would be great. I'm going to have to try. I bet it would be good with diced onions or pico de gallo on it,too as well as several other things I can think of. I bet it would be good with grilled or broiled crappie, too. I guess just go with your imagingation, but I think you've hit a home run here.

Man I Blackened some fresh crappie last night and tonight! Let's say it's real close to being better than deep fried! Haven't tried it with a taco shell yet, but it's soon!

Looks great, gotta try it real soon.

Add a slice or two of avacado for even more flavor and a bit of creamy texture to the taco. Also, you can make a spicy mayonnaise by adding just a bit of chipotle!!

looks good gonna have to try this.

I made this tonight and it was awesome...... good call.

Tried these last night and they were very good. Used my own fish blackening rub. Will cook them again. Thank You.