Fish tacos with red cabbage, jalapeño, and lime slaw from Dinner: Changing the Game (page 127) by Melissa Clark

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ground cumin
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sam_q4d8yh on March 24, 2026

Just used a taco seasoning and avocado a must
katie_uspqdv on February 14, 2026

Easy! I added pickled onions, delicious
Soulkitchenjen on December 01, 2025

Made again with slaw mix and tilapia. So easy. So good.
DKennedy on August 07, 2025

Made these with tilapia and previously poached shrimp. The shrimp I sautéed in a little olive oil, garlic and salt. The tilapia in the spices laid out in the recipe. Added a little smoky herbs I had on hand. Def. a make again. So little effort for a delicious and impressive meal. I served mine with the sour cream, slaw (no jalapeño). Added a second topping of chopped heirloom tomato, fresh corn, mango and avocado seasoned with salt and pepper. Served with both blue corn tortillas and beef tallow flour tortillas from our local farmers market. Outstanding.
kari500 on July 15, 2025

Made with fish sticks for a lazy but delicious dinner. Since I wasn’t spicing the fish, I added cumin seeds to the slaw. Hit.
Soulkitchenjen on February 27, 2025

Glad I listened to yinz. Soooo freaking good. Melissa never adds citrus to you creamy sauces. This does benefit from lime juice in the creamy sauce. Made homemade tortillas and I wish I would have made them a little bigger.
SpatulaCity on March 21, 2024

Made with cod and pre shredded slaw mix. Easy, fast, and perfectly delicious. Didn’t miss the fish being battered and fried!
SheilaS on May 25, 2023

Made this with rockfish and it was delicious.
ChelseaP on May 22, 2021

Great quick weeknight dinner.
jhallen on December 05, 2020

These are great, fast, and easy. Will make again for sure.
jenburkholder on July 08, 2020

Tasty enough for how easy they are (sub-30 minutes), but nothing particularly special. Used mahi-mahi for the fish. The sauce needed more acid than called for, so we ended up squeezing a lime into it.
Lepa on February 23, 2020

This was a hit with my family. We used cat fish because the fish merchant convinced my husband it would be perfect for tacos and it really was! It took five minutes to cook. My husband suggested we use some pickled red onions next time but otherwise we thought this was perfect.
dinnermints on September 13, 2018

YES, garlic lime yogurt sauce. Simple and yet really adds a lot. It was a bit overpowered by the large garlic clove I chose; next time I'd do a smaller one. I used 1 T olive oil for the slaw, which was also good. Seeing pistachiopeas's comment about the Fish Without a Doubt method for the fish, I'm thinking I'd try that next time. Agree with other comments that this is a great weeknight meal!
stockholm28 on December 16, 2017

I concur with the other reviews. These were great and they are a pretty simple and healthy meal. I used halibut because that was the only decent white fish that was available today and it worked fine. These are definitely going in the rotation. I think they would be good with grilled shrimp too.
TrishaCP on December 09, 2017

This is a great recipe- I would put this up there with the Harissa chicken in terms of loving it. I was able to obtain hake so used it here- our broiler is wonky so we just broiled until flaky. We had leftover slaw and had leftover tacos the next day with shrimp (sautéed in the same spice blend).
clcorbi on August 29, 2017

Yum. We loved these too! I really enjoyed that the fish was baked rather than breaded and fried. I cheated and used a bag of slaw mix, so I didn't even have to chop any cabbage, which made this meal even faster. These will definitely be repeated, as we are big fish taco fans but our (previous) favorite recipe is a lot less healthy and much more rich.
lou_weez on May 08, 2017

The flavours of this meal were fantastic. Next time I would double the quantity of fish as it wasn't enough for the four of us.
Zosia on April 29, 2017

A tasty, quick dinner. I also used mahi mahi and it developed a lovely crust under the broiler. The garlic-lime yogurt sauce was outstanding and will be made again for other tacos.
Delys77 on April 25, 2017

Great dinner and comes together quickly. I used mahi mahi as that is what we had and broiled for 4 minutes per side. The fish has a lovely flavour and all the accoutrements make for a lovely and quite healthy dish. Great weeknight meal!
pistachiopeas on March 31, 2017

Really loved these. Made a couple of small changes. I used the Fish Without a Doubt method to sear & then finish the fish in the oven. Skipped the lime zest as I was feeling lazy and thought fresh lime juice would be enough. For the slaw, I used Savoy cabbage instead of red because that was what I had. Loved the slaw so much! The next day made a quick taco for lunch with the same slaw but threw in a fish stick and that was great too!
mrshalf on March 30, 2017

Love! Love! Love! Everything about this was a hit. The fish was fantastic and I was thrilled it wasn't fried. The cabbage came together very quickly. I loved the garlic and lime zest in the sour cream. A definite favorite from Dinner!!!
joanhuguet on March 22, 2017

This was less perfect than the other recipes I've tried from the book, but still repeatable! The fish took on a nice smoky flavor from the seasonings, but the texture was a bit soggy – maybe my broiler runs a bit low. The cabbage slaw was the highlight.