Sweet Tilapia Fish Tacos

We love tacos at our house, and so I am always experimenting with them. I was at the grocery store the other day and saw this yummy looking Litehouse dressing. I like to make my own dressings, but this one intrigued me, so I bought it. It was Fuji Apple.

Anyway, I kept trying to think of something that would be good with this dressing, other than a salad. Nothing came to mind. Then, a few days ago I had my sister over, and made some coconut encrusted chicken, because I had it in the freezer and it is a quick meal. We had just been swimming and we were starving so I baked it up and it was really quick and really good. I was explaining it to someone else as “Like coconut shrimp, but on chicken”.

I love coconut, so I got to thinking how good a coconut encrusted tilapia would be. Tilapia is such a sweet mild fish, and I use it in tacos all the time. This is a great recipe. Anyway, it struck me, I could make a sweet taco, use coconut encrusted tilapia pieces, and make a sweet slaw using apples, cabbage, red onion, and carrot matchsticks, and use the fuji apple dressing on it. Here is what I ended up with. It is yummy!

A few of my steps:

I started by making the slaw.

Then I took my tilapia and cut it into pieces, dredged it, dipped it, and encrusted it with coconut.

I was heating my oil while I prepared the fish, so I was ready to cook it, but wanted to start my tortillas, since the fish cooks quickly I wanted everything to be ready about the same time.

I mixed up my cilantro jalapeno sour cream.

And I started to assemble my tacos.

Then, of course, I enjoyed eating them! And I hope you enjoy them too.

Sweet Tilapia Fish Tacos

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Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 30 minutes

Servings: 4

Ingredients

Tilapia

• 3 tilapia fillets
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 c flour
• 1/2 tsp paprika
• 1/2 tsp cumin
• 1/2 tsp chili powder
• 1 cup sweetened dried coconut flakes
• Oil for frying

Slaw

• 1 apple grated
• 1 carrot crated
• 1/2 small cabbage grated
• 1/2 red onion grated
• 1/2 c Litehouse Fuji Apple dressing or use some sugar and vinegar to make your own

Cilantro jalapeno sour cream

• 1/2 c sour cream
• 1/4 a jalapeno chopped fine
• 1 Tbs Cilantro chopped fine

Tacos

• 8 Corn tortilla shells
• Lime

Instructions

Tilapia

• Mix together flour and spices together in a shallow dish.
• Beat eggs in a separate dish.
• Cut tilapia into pieces about 1 inch in size.
• Dredge each piece of Tilapia in flour and spices mixture
• Then dip into the beaten eggs
• Once dredged in eggs, press dried coconut onto the fish so it is coated in coconut.
• Set on plate
• Heat oil in fry pan to 350 degrees F.
• Fry 1-2 minutes per side, until coconut is golden brown and fish is cooked through

Slaw

• Grate carrot, apple, onion, and cabbage, mix together in a large bowl, stir in Fuji Apple dressing

Cilantro Jalapeno Sour Cream

• Chop cilantro fine
• Chop jalapeno fine, use gloves so not to burn skin
• Stir into sour cream

Tacos

• Heat griddle to 325
• Put corn tortillas on griddle and heat until crispy.
• Top with tilapia pieces, fold over, and keep on heat until sufficiently crispy
• Garnish with slaw and sour cream, squeeze lime on top

Notes

This is a very sweet taco, so in order to balance it out and have it taste right, be sure to squeeze the lime on for the acidity.
If you like a little extra spice, feel free to add extra jalapeno to the sour cream mixture.

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