Easy Baja Fish Tacos Recipe - Lauren's Latest (2024)

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Baja Fish Tacos are a fun, easy, and tasty way to upgrade fish sticks. Everyone gets to build their own ideal taco! Parent and kid-approved!

Baja Fish Taco Recipe

I have a yummy and simple dinner idea for you today, brought to you from the fridge and freezer sections of your grocery store, Baja Fish Tacos! I know last year I posted my Easiest Fish Tacos recipe and lots of you went crazy over it because I used plain old fish sticks. Groundbreaking, right? I hate frying food {especially fish} because the smell lingers in my house for literally days. I can’t stand it! So, this is my easy shortcut that takes no time at all.

Main Ingredients Needed

Here’s everything you’ll need to make these Baja fish tacos and its accompanying Baja fish taco sauce.

• Fish Sticks –this is my secret to making fast and delicious fish tacos! All the flavor without the frying smells.
• Sour Cream –this makes the sauce tangy and creamy.
• Avocado –more creamy goodness plus gentle avocado flavor. This will make your sauce slightly green.
• Garlic –for flavor.
• Taco Seasoning –use store-bought or make your own! Either way, it’s going to be delicious.
• Salt and Pepper –to taste.
• Tortillas –corn, flour or both? You choose 🙂
• Toppings –any topping you put on a regular taco would go well with these tacos too!

Baja Fish Taco Sauce

Start by making the Baja Fish Taco Sauce:

1. Place some sour cream, garlic, salt, pepper, avocado, and taco seasoning into a blender.
2. Blend it up until it’s smooth, taste and adjust seasonings as you see fit. That’s it! Easy Peasy.
3. Pour this into a bowl or a squeeze bottle and set aside.

How to Make Baja Fish Tacos

1. The other important thing for this recipe and really the last step is to bake up some fish sticks. I bought the VandeKamp’s extra crunchy kind, but you can use whichever kind you’d like.
2. Basically, once the fish sticks are baked and the sauce is done, it’s just a matter of laying all your ingredients out and letting everyone build their own tacos come dinner time. I laid out a variety of tortillas, some shredded red cabbage, cilantro, avocado slices, sour cream, greek yogurt, and pre-shredded Mexican blend cheese.

My daughter ate two whole Baja fish tacos on her own with a few extra fish sticks after…it was awesome! Taco bars….who knew?

Customization

How many of you love to customize your own tacos? I know the people in my family do! Usually, for taco night, I just lay all the toppings out on the table and let everyone take care of their own plates. This Baja fish taco recipe is no different. I just lay all the ingredients out and let my husband and kids do their own thing. It’s probably one of the least stressful dinners I serve because it takes less than 30 minutes to throw together and I know everyone will lick their plates clean.

I don’t know about you guys, but whenever we include our kids in the process of making dinner, they are more likely to eat their dinner AND talk at the dinner table. I’ve come to figure out little ways to include the two of them almost every night in the process to create more family time and make it more of a ‘quality’ meal. Whether it’s making their own tacos, setting the table or tearing lettuce, I get them involved. My style of cooking doesn’t change, but the way I go about including my family members does. And what do you know…it makes a big difference.

More Taco Recipes to Rock your World!

• Mojito Lime Fish Taco Recipe
• Shrimp Tacos
• Taco Lettuce Wraps
• The Easiest Fish Tacos
• Taco Sloppy Joes
• Asian Beef Tacos

This is my super simple shortcut to make fish sticks into amazing Baja Fish Tacos. Who knew frozen fish sticks could be so….gourmet? So super fast and delightfully delicious!

Have a great day, friends!