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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Recipes / Seafood / Fish Recipes / Fish Taco Seasoning

Fish Taco Seasoning

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

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Easy blend of six herbs and spices with finely ground sea salt and pepper for a delicious fish taco seasoning that works with any flaky, mild, white fish.

fish taco seasoning in a glass bowl with tortillas and cod fillet

I first tasted fish tacos a few years ago while on vacation in Key West.

I was hooked!

Wanting to try making them at home, I set out to examine the organic fish taco spice blends on the market. What I found was very disappointing.

Undesirable additives including maltodextrin, citric acid and/or cornstarch were in ALL the organic brands that I examined.

Since I prefer to avoid these substances in my home cooking, figuring out how to make a healthy fish taco seasoning myself was the next step.

Tweaking my homemade taco seasoning recipe for ground beef or chicken to go well with mild, flaky white fish was all I needed to do!

Best Fish for Tacos

My favorite types of fish to use for tacos are:

  • Cod
  • Halibut
  • Haddock
  • Red Snapper
  • Grouper

My preference is to buy whichever of these is on sale and fresh off the boat at my local fish shop.

Alternatively, health food store chains sometimes have frozen fillets packaged by the half dozen at a good price.

I prefer to bake all types of fish fillets in the toaster oven, believe it or not!

They come out perfectly every time with no risk of overcooking. This can really wreck the texture of white fish in particular.

My favorite sauce on fish tacos is pineapple chutney. I follow the recipe in Nourishing Traditions Cookbook.

It is similar to this recipe for fermented mango chutney, with the easy substitution of pineapple chunks.

Healthy Tortilla Options

The tortillas I typically use are these 8″ organic sourdough tortillas from a family-owned bakery that ships fresh right to your door!

Sometimes, I will use these 6″ sprouted organic corn tortillas as another tasty and healthy option.

If you are grain-free, these almond flour tortillas are the best tasting ones I’ve tried.

For those that are nut-free, sensitive to xanthan gum or avoiding oxalates, I suggest trying these cassava tortillas (cassava flour, water, coconut oil, and sea salt) instead.

fish taco seasoning in a glass dish with tortillas and fillet
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Fish Taco Seasoning

Tasty fish taco seasoning mix that you can quickly make yourself at home by blending six herbs and spices with sea salt and black pepper.

Course Main Course
Keyword DIY, easy, no-MSG
Prep Time 5 minutes
Total Time 5 minutes
Servings 5 tablespoons
Author Sarah Pope

Ingredients

  • 2 Tbl chili powder
  • 1.5 tsp sea salt finely ground
  • 1 tsp ground cumin
  • 1 tsp smoked paprika
  • 1 tsp garlic powder or 3 cloves freshly minced
  • 1 tsp onion powder
  • 1 tsp ground oregano or 3 tsp freshly and finely chopped
  • 1/2 tsp black pepper finely ground

Instructions

  1. Mix all the herbs and spices together in a small glass bowl.

  2. Store in an airtight container in the pantry or your spice cabinet. I recommend glass for the best preservation of flavor. If making with fresh garlic and oregano, store in the refrigerator.

  3. I typically use 1 tablespoon to season every 1 pound of baked white fish.

seasoning for fish tacos in a bowl with healthy tortillas and whitefish fillet
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Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: Amazon #1 bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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  1. Turquoise Hooper

    Jun 12, 2022 at 8:04 pm

    5 stars
    Absolutely LOVED the fish taco spice recipe………..it is over the moon deelish!!! I tweaked in a couple of places & made it into a divine homemade ketchup recipe using Jovial Tomato Paste & Jovial Diced Tomatoes both in glass jars. Also used organic white vinegar for a lovely acidic “bite”. Thank you so much for the Fish Taco Spice recipe. It is not only the very BEST but it is so versatile with the least bit of effort.

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