What drives a girl to decide to make fish tacos for the first time? I’ll tell you:
- Finding this recipe for homemade flour tortillas this week. Doesn’t she HE (I am a moron) make it sound fabulously easy and do-able? Turns out it IS
- Realizing I had a giant stash of The Yankee-caught fish in the freezer
- Browsing through my new cookbook from Lulu’s
Honestly. What else would I do?
So first I made the tortillas. For those you will need:
- 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tsp vegetable oil
- 3/4 cup hot milk
Assembly:
- In a stand mixer, mix up the flour, baking powder, salt, and vegetable oil
- Add in the hot milk and mix till the dough pulls together, then let it knead in the mixer for another four or five minutes
- When it’s nice and smooth, divide the dough into 12 pieces, about 2 ounces each
- Pat them into little discs, then roll out as thin as possible
- Fry on a very hot pan, about 30 seconds each side
- Pour some boiling water into a dish and set it on your turned-off oven. Set a plate beside the dish of water and keep your tortillas warm on that plate — the steam from the boiled water kept mine warm and kept them from drying out, too. Bonus!
Next: the fish! This was super easy. I had a ziploc bag of thawed fish and a hot pan with olive oil in it. I cooked the fish, sprinkled with salt, for about three or four minutes on each side till it was cooked through and easily flaked with a fork.
Now make tacos! For ours I used:
- afore-mentioned homemade tortillas
- afore-mentioned cooked fish
- black beans
- mixed cheeses
- lime juice
- cilantro
The beauty of this meal was that we had all the ingredients on hand. The fish and beans were in the freezer, the cheese was in the fridge, the limes were on the counter, and the cilantro was in the garden. A lovely, fresh meal without a trip to the grocery store? Definitely a winner in my book.
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Those look tasty! Lazysumo is of course FLATTERED that you would use the flour tortilla recipe for this. However … I think “HE” would be slightly offended by you calling him a girl *wink*
OPK grabs paper and writes note to self: Do not get so distracted by pretty tortillas that you do not pay attention!
Meh, she said nice things about my post AND she made an awesome dinner with it… that excuses all kinds of sins!!! :):):)
Great site, thanks for the mention.
Hee, hee! I promise I’ll pay better attention next time. Pretty food is distracting. 😉
Your tortillas look fantastic! I’ve only made homemade tortillas with whole wheat flour – I’ll need to make some with regular AP flour soon! And those fish tacos look awesome!
Thanks!!!
Two thumbs up from the Yankee on this one!!!!
Yay! Weird, The Kiddo was oddly silent about this.
I made homemade corn tortilla once. I;d like to try flour ones, too!
I need to try corn next — I have a whole mess of masa in the pantry, too!
Kudos to you for making your own tortillas! The rest of the recipe looks great, too!
Wow, you’re own tortillas??! That’s awesome! And they look delish.
wow…..i’m so hungry!! these are beautiful. am going to try them. thank you.
Hi! I’ve never made bread or tortillas obviously, but I want to try these! When you knead the dough, which attachment are you using? Do I need to break out my hook thingy?
Thanks!
Break it out! 🙂 It’s perfect for this. I think the paddle would get bogged down. Let me know how it goes!
Thanks for responding! I should have asked..do you use it from the beginning, or just before you add the milk?
Of course! 🙂 I actually use it from the beginning. It does an okay job at kind of whisking together the dry ingredients, and then I only have one attachment to wash. Thumbs up for that!
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