Baja Beer-Battered Tilapia (Great for Fish Tacos)

"This recipe is a healthful version of the battered, deep-fried and crispy fish at Rossy's Tacos in Baja California. I have never had their fish tacos, but this recipe sound great as a main dish or in a taco. From eatingwell.com ."
 
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Ready In:
40mins
Ingredients:
13
Serves:
6
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ingredients

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directions

  • Place all the Beer Batter ingredients in a blender; blend until smooth, scraping down the sides as necessary.
  • Transfer the batter to a shallow baking dish, add fish, turning to coat all sides.
  • Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat.
  • Transfer one-third of the battered fish to the pan, placing each piece into a little oil.
  • Cook until golden brown, 3 to 4 minutes per side.
  • Transfer cooked fish to a plate; keep warm.
  • Add 1 tablespoon oil and half the remaining fish to the pan; cook as directed above, reducing the heat if necessary.
  • Cook the remaining fish with the remaining 1 tablespoon oil.
  • Serve immediately.
  • To make tacos: fill tortillas with fish and cabbage then top with salsa. Enjoy!

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Reviews

  1. I never batter fish, and was surprised how tasty and easy this was to make. Make sure your fish is dry before trying to batter. Just blot fish on paper towels before dipping in batter.
     
  2. This beer batter is SUPERB. I know this says it serves six but two of us ate all of the fish since it was so good! I doubled all spices except the salt. Be sure to dry off the fish well before coating with batter, so it sticks well. This is a quick and easy recipe that I'll make again!
     
  3. This was fantastic. The only thing I'd like to figure out is how to make the batter stick to the fist better. We also cut up a sweet onion and made a batch of onion rings with the left over batter.
     
  4. These were so very good! The recipe was great, though I did double the spices as others had suggested. Also used a mango-pineapple salsa to complement the fish. Yum! Can't wait to make these again. Thank you for posting.
     
  5. Absolutely wonderful! Flavorful and easy! I followed the advice of the other reviewer and doubled the spices since we like a lot of spice and it turned out great! I made homemade coleslaw (cabbage, carrots, yogurt, garlic salt, onion salt, vinegar and a little mayo) to put on top and served it with corn tortillas. Batter was nice and easy to make and turned out very light. I will use this recipe again for sure!
     
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After graduating from college in spring of 2007, I am now working as a Traffic Engineer. Now that I have free time instead of homework, I've been trying all sorts of new recipes that are more involved. I am always trying to get healthy food into my husband and 7-year old step-son. I am slowly wearing on them, both of them will finally eat vegetables with every dinner. Both of them like helping in the kitchen, especially on mini pizza nights! We have a 4-year old male lab/golden retriever mix and when the two "boys" get going, look out! I participated in my in-law's family Christmas party this year by bringing almond roca. It was a huge hit and everyone wants it again next get-together! I will definately bring it again, but I don't want to give the recipe out to them because it is so easy and I like them thinking I worked by butt off!! A cooking tragedy I once had in high school: I was making some pesto for my mom and I to have with lunch. At the time, I didn't know the difference between a clove and a bulb of garlic and I ended up putting about half a bulb of garlic in the recipe then stopped because I though "two whole bulbs would be a lot"... the recipe read 2 cloves ... Needless to say, we had bad breath for days and I never forgot what a clove was!! I haven't tried all of my posted recipes, but if I posted them I thought they sounded good and figured I should give someone else the chance to try them before I get to them. <img src="http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/susied214/projects/200_PACpic.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"> <img src="http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/susied214/permanent%20collection/Adopted1smp.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket">
 
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