Dinner · 20 min · 2 plates
Cod fish tacos
Flake the fish, lime, crunchy cabbage. Frozen cod still counts.
The sheet · 2 plates · 20 min
easyWhy tonight. Flake the fish, lime, crunchy cabbage. Frozen cod still counts.
What it needs
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- cod
- tortillas
- cabbage
- lime
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: mayo, chili flakes.
Method
- Cabbage shredded thin and dressed with lime fifteen minutes ahead. It needs the time; the fish does not.
- Cod dried, seasoned and seared hard, or battered and fried — but never poached, which falls apart in a tortilla.
- Char the tortillas dry over a flame until they blister.
- Flake the fish in big pieces and build shallow. Overfilled tacos tear and the point is that you can pick it up.
An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.
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Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- cod
- Lean, mild and flaky, which makes it a vehicle rather than a flavor.
- tortillas
- They want direct heat before they go anywhere near a plate.
- cabbage
- Cheap, keeps for weeks, and completely different raw and cooked.
- lime
- Sharper and more floral than lemon, and it fades faster — juice it the same hour you use it.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
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Next
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