Fish Tacos!

[phasedweasel]

Tonight I made fish tacos. Fish tacos have long been a food that kind of put me off. "Fish" tacos? What? That sounds awful! But when I started thinking about them as shredded fish, cabbage/lettuce and my favorite flavors of lime, cumin and salsa wrapped in a tortilla I was able to change my perception of them.

Comments

[k8ykat]

wait, explain to me how fried fish is healthy? ;)

[phasedweasel]

If the food were evaluated from a weight-gain perspective, then you care about total calories, not fat levels. The fish is mostly protein and doesn't have a lot of calories to it, and even with deep frying it's still a lower calorie meal than either pasta or meat and carbohydrate.

Nutritionally it's better than a mostly pasta meal (our old staple), or pure meat and carbohydrate. We don't have a lot of protein (or omega-3's), and the cabbage and salsa add back a lot of vitamins (cabbage is surprisingly good for you) and fiber.

[phasedweasel]

But yes, I should say it is not as healthy as quite a few other dinners : )

[wildkitty27]

I also always thought fish tacos sounded weird and gross, but we tried these recently, too, and they were delicious! We used flounder that we grilled (which didn't work very well, it's not a good grilling fish but it tasted yummy and is healthier than deep-frying), lettuce, the fresh tomato salsa I already posted, and homemade flour tortillas.

I love salsa verde--we'll have to make that again soon. I'm going to post arroz verde for you right now, because it's such a tasty, easy side dish for any south-of-the-border kind of meal.

[ladysaphira]

I had the same opinion about fish tacos until I spent 5 weeks in the LA area.

On the research vessel we'd make fish tacos about of fresh-caught sea bas (and baracuda, but it gains a funny flavor just a few hours after it's caught so you won't see it in stores) and we did breaded pan-fried strips of fish instead of deep-fried that might be a little bit healthier...