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Blackened Fish Tacos with Avocado Honey Sauce

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Tacos with orange roughy blackened with cajun seasoning, cole slaw and honey avocado dressing

Ingredients

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Slaw

  • 1/2 head green cabbage – thinly sliced and separated
  • 1 red onion – sliced in half root to stem, then thinly crosswise to leave long pieces
  • 2 large ripe, juicy limes

Avocado Honey Sauce

  • 1 ripe avocado – pitted
  • 1/2 cup sour cream
  • 2 TBL cilantro – chopped
  • 1 jalapeno – seeded and diced
  • 1 TBL honey
  • Pinch of salt

Blackened Seasoning

  • 4 TBL sweet paprika
  • 5 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp onion powder
  • 2 tsp garlic powder
  • 1–1/2 tsp white ground pepper
  • 1–1/2 tsp ground black pepper
  • 2 tsp cayenne pepper
  • 1 tsp dried thyme
  • 1 tsp dried oregano

Blackened Fish

  • 2 lbs orange roughy filets
  • 1 stick unsalted butter – melted
  • Blackened seasoning

Assembly

  • 12  taco shells or tortillas
  • Slaw
  • Blackened fish

Instructions

Slaw

  1. Combine the cabbage and onion
  2. Squeeze the lime juice over them
  3. Toss it together – rest covered in the fridge for 1-2 hours

Avocado Honey Sauce

  1. Scoop out the avocado into the food processor
  2. Add everything else
  3. Pulse and taste
  4. Adjust salt and honey until desired level of sweetness is obtained.

Blackened Seasoning

  1. Mix all the ingredients together thoroughly and store in an airtight container until ready to use

Blackened Fish

 

  1. Do this outdoors using a propane burner capable of heating a large cast iron skillet red-hot
  2. Pre-heat the skillet until it’s almost smoking
  3. Use butter to coat both sides of the fillets, then generously coat them with blackened seasoning on both sides
  4. Carefully place the filets into the smoking hot skillet and drizzle butter over the filets as they cook
  5. Turn over after about 2-3 minutes, drizzle more butter on them and cook another 2-3 minutes, remove and drain on a rack.
  6. Serve as quickly as possible

Assembly

  1. Microwave the taco shells wrapped in a kitchen towel for 30-45 seconds
  2. Place the shells in racks, fill with the fish, cover with slaw and add a large dollop of sauce over them

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