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Title: Redneck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: Romanian Redneck on July 29, 2012, 06:04:53 PM
I was craving some fish tacos so I thawed out some Cabazon and went to work. Here's how it went:

Ingredients:

-cabazon, lingcod, or rockfish fillets cut to 1 inch strips
-vegetable oil
-all purpose flour
-Johnny's seasoning
-garlic salt
-Panko bread crumbs
-Italian bread crumbs
-3 eggs

-cut fish into 1 inch strips
-preheat vegetable oil in a deep pan till it reaches deep frying temperature.
-place all purpose flour, garlic salt, and Johnny's seasoning into a zip lock bag. Place fish in with mixture. Shake the hell out of it.
-dip fish in egg then roll in Italian bread crumbs and Panko mixture.
-place in heated oil for 2-5 minutes or until fish flakes. (flip once while in pan)
-once fish is done, serve on a pan crisped wheat tortilla with the delicious taco sauce (recipe below), chives, onions, diced tomatoes, cilantro, and chopped romaine leaves.

In my opinion the sauce makes the taco. I like this version for this type of taco the best.

Fish Taco Sauce:

Ingredients:
-1 cup Greek yogurt (honey or plain)
-1 cup mayonnaise
-1 tablespoon lime juice (fresh squeezed)
-1 tablespoon cumin
-1 tablespoon oregano
-1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
-3 minced garlic cloves

-Mince the garlic as fine as possible.
-mix all of the ingredients together and whisp until it turned a strawberry creme color.
-refrigerate for at least a half hour before serving.

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Enjoy!
Paul


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Title: Re: Redbeck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: INSAYN on July 29, 2012, 06:13:52 PM
Bravo!   :notworthy: 

I'm not a big fan of whole wheat other than occasionally toast, but I'd help ya clean up on that grub! 

I'll be testing that sauce next time I do a round of fish tacos. 
Title: Re: Redbeck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: akfishergal on July 29, 2012, 06:23:20 PM
Looks fabulous -- I think I'll try that with some of the halibut that's on hand.  I've never seen "Johnny's Seasoning" in the stores up here though.  Can you take a guess at the spice blends it contains? Just curious.
Title: Redbeck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: Romanian Redneck on July 29, 2012, 06:30:19 PM
Thanks guys!
AFG, this is from Johnny's website:

"Johnny's Seasoning Salt contains salt, sugar, paprika, pepper, garlic, soy sauce powder, cellulose gel and citric acid. The seasoning salt with the yellow lid contains added soy and wheat"

It's great with chicken, fish, beef, pretty much anything!


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Title: Re: Redbeck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: Lee on July 29, 2012, 06:51:13 PM
Those look great.  I love Johnny's seasoning, their lemon pepper seasoning is really good.

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Title: Re: Redbeck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: j-fek on July 29, 2012, 09:21:45 PM
pulling the cabby out now   ;D
Title: Re: Redbeck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: craig on July 30, 2012, 08:10:02 PM
Diagnosis: Delicious!
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My wife and are are enjoying these now.  Love the sauce!  We used the left over batter to assist in the consumption of zucchini.  Deep fried zucchini is still a veggie, right?
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Title: Redbeck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: Romanian Redneck on July 30, 2012, 10:32:42 PM
Diagnosis: Delicious!
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My wife and are are enjoying these now.  Love the sauce!  We used the left over batter to assist in the consumption of zucchini.  Deep fried zucchini is still a veggie, right?
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Those look great! I want to try beer battering the next ones I make. I've never tried that before. Glad you like the sauce. Seems to be a good compliment to deep fried fish.




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Title: Re: Redbeck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: NCWflounderer on July 31, 2012, 08:53:23 AM
sounds great- thank you for sharing. 
Title: Re: Redbeck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: NCWflounderer on August 05, 2012, 11:46:59 AM
the reviews are in at my camp.  Served this sauce last night along with walleye and all the fixins- everyone loved them.  I heard from 1 that they were glad they waited to try fish taco's for the forst time in my back yard- the bar has been set high. thank you for sharing Redbeck
Title: Redbeck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: Romanian Redneck on August 05, 2012, 12:19:34 PM
the reviews are in at my camp.  Served this sauce last night along with walleye and all the fixins- everyone loved them.  I heard from 1 that they were glad they waited to try fish taco's for the forst time in my back yard- the bar has been set high. thank you for sharing Redbeck

Anytime :) glad it was a hit!


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Title: Re: Redbeck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: PNW on August 05, 2012, 12:21:20 PM
this is making me hungry
Title: Re: Redbeck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: craig on August 05, 2012, 10:03:33 PM
I also discovered today the yogurt sauce spices up veggie burgers nicely.
Title: Redbeck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: Romanian Redneck on October 21, 2012, 05:19:11 PM
I tried a little something different this time around. The batter looks like this:

1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon corn starch
1 and a half cups beer (I prefer lager, brand of your choice)
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper

I dipped the finely cut cabazon strips into the batter then into a panko and garlic bread crumb mixture. Then into the hot oil for a few minutes.

Place veggies of choice onto crispy tortilla, add fish, top with the yummy sauce posted above, a bit of shredded cheese and pig out.

Enjoy!

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Title: Re: Redbeck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: NCWflounderer on October 22, 2012, 08:55:19 AM
The sauce is BOSS!!!!
Thanks again for sharing
Title: Re: Redbeck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: dberd on August 18, 2013, 10:48:57 AM
Love the bookmark feature!Whipped up some fish tacos last nite,checked this bookmark,made the fish taco sauce...everyone loved it! Even my vegetarian daughter enjoyed dipping raw veggies in it.Also made Ling Lings (I think) simple cole slaw recipe...along with homeade salsa,guac...we'll be doing this again soon.Thanks, guys!
Title: Re: Redbeck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: Ling ling, Herro? on August 18, 2013, 04:07:41 PM
The lime-cumin slaw is good stuff. Very simple and adds a nice cool note to spicy tacos. Paul's fish taco sauce is top notch though!  Now, I'm getting hungry!
Title: Re: Redbeck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: INSAYN on August 18, 2013, 09:05:33 PM
My traditional beer batter for fish tacos is "Pride of the West" batter mix.

You can use water, beer, or both to get the batter to the consistency you like.  Go thick enough on the batter and you can just about make fish doughnuts.

Also, theres no need to add any other seasoning to it, especially salt.   
It's great the way it is right out of the box.

You can also dry coat with it, and give it light crispy coating. 
Just roll the fish in the dry Pride of the West powder.
Dip in egg wash.
Then back in another bowl of 50/50 Pride of the West and Panko.
Let it sit for about 8-10 mins to set up before frying.
Title: Re: Redbeck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: polepole on August 18, 2013, 09:49:39 PM
Redbeck?

-Allen
Title: Re: Redbeck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: Romanian Redneck on August 18, 2013, 09:55:48 PM
Redbeck?

-Allen

I have no idea what you are referring to, sir.  :angel12:
Title: Re: Redneck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: Ling ling, Herro? on November 25, 2013, 06:28:04 PM
I had to revive this thread to let everyone know that RR's fish taco recipe is bomb. I used his recipe as a guide to make my own. Seriously so good! The breading and the sauce make sweet tender love in your mouth.  It is out of this world! Haha.
No pics of this food porn. I was too hungry to wait.
Title: Re: Redneck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: threecreeks on November 26, 2013, 07:04:38 PM
Holy crap-in-oli.... substituted salmon for cabezon...yummy!  Thanks for the recipe, RR!
Title: Re: Redneck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: Romanian Redneck on November 26, 2013, 07:18:14 PM
My pleasure gents. ;)
Title: Re: Redneck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: dampainter on July 18, 2016, 06:22:15 PM
"place all purpose flour, garlic salt, and Johnny's seasoning into a zip lock bag. Place fish in with mixture. Shake the hell out of it."  .......what r the measurements?


am making this right now. ur 1st post dry mix no measurements so am going with second post.  neither post says what measurement of panko to bread crumbs? one to one, i hope?    been awhile since this was brought up, doing anything different?

no time to waste, for now am just gonna do fish in "louisana" brand fish fry mix.
Title: Re: Redneck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: Romanian Redneck on July 18, 2016, 07:05:58 PM
I revised my methods since this post. You can use the beer batter recipe of your choice doesn't have to be mine.

For the Panko crust part I just use two cups of Panko in a bowl and one generous tablespoon of jonny's, one teaspoon cayenne. Mix it together and coat the fish that's already been dipped in the beer batter. In the oil it goes and you're in business.

Good luck!
Title: Re: Redneck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: dampainter on July 18, 2016, 09:17:03 PM
next time will do this for now the mix worked good, the sauce is perfect for taco`s ! im so stuffed! thx!!  great recipe!
Title: Re: Redneck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: Coulee kayaker on May 14, 2017, 07:39:03 PM
Made these tonight, they were a huge hit! Thanks for the delicious recipe.
Title: Re: Redneck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: Romanian Redneck on May 14, 2017, 08:03:29 PM
Made these tonight, they were a huge hit! Thanks for the delicious recipe.

Frankenthread is brought back to life! [emoji12]
Title: Re: Redneck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: craig on May 19, 2017, 06:16:51 PM
They are delicious, so it was a worthy bump.
Title: Re: Redneck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: Coastal Chief on May 19, 2017, 07:30:05 PM
Looks great as I stare out the window in Depoe...I'll be saving that recipe...thanks for sharing!(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170520/d818af92671c90ddac712d4673805af6.jpg)


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Title: Re: Redneck's Cabazon Fish Tacos
Post by: Hydrocephalic on September 06, 2017, 09:03:39 PM
As a native San Diegan, I've had my share of fish tacos both stateside and in MX....

That sauce recipe is incredible and takes me back home. I've made this at least 10 times in the past couple months, and plenty of times have had only the sauce to accompany the fish. Phenomenal flavor, thank you for this!!