Recipe for Salmon Tacos
Updated April 28, 2011
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Our good friend Lincoln recently came up for a visit. He is a big supporter of our blog, so he knows that we are always in the kitchen. We decided to make him Salmon Tacos for dinner, since they are one of his favorites. We had to spoil our guest of honor!
We grilled up some salmon on our indoor grill pan. Thanks All-Clad! It was too cold to go outside:) Josh made a basic rub with cumin, chili powder, and black pepper.
We spiced up the tacos with fresh pico, lime crema, chopped cabbage, fresh cilantro, and lime. The perfect pairings for fish tacos! We also made our favorite cilantro lime rice and some black beans to go with.
It was one tasty meal! And most importantly, Lincoln approved! It was fun cooking for him. He is the best!
Salmon Tacos
Fresh Salmon
Cumin
Chili Powder
Black Pepper
Cabbage, chopped
Fresh corn tortillas
For the Pico:
Tomatoes, diced
Garlic, minced
Onion, diced
Jalapeno, minced
Fresh cilanto, chopped
Fresh lime juice
Salt
Pepper
For the Lime Crema:
Sour cream (I used fat free)
Garlic, minced
A bit of diced onion
Fresh cilantro, chopped
Fresh lime juice
Salt
Pepper
1. Mix cumin, chili powder, and black pepper together. Josh didn’t measure so just guess:) Rub this on the salmon filets. Grill salmon for a few minutes. Make sure the fish is tender and moist. Don’t overdo it.
2. Prepare the fixings. Heat up the corn tortillas. Place them in tin foil and heat them in the oven or on a skillet on the stove. Chop the cabbage.
3. Make the Pico. Chop up all of the ingredients in a small bowl and mix. Taste. We don’t measure, we just do it to our taste!
4. Make the Lime Crema. You can add mayo to the sour cream, do half and half…but I hate mayo, so I just used sour cream. Again, I didn’t measure, just add ingredients to your taste.
5. When the salmon has cooled, pull it apart so it is in chunks. Place the salmon on the hot tortillas. Load on the toppings: cabbage, pico, lime crema, fresh cilantro, and lime juice.
Delicious tacos and love the new header!
LOVE the new header. All of your food looks restaurant ready!
Maria,
I love these! The pictures are so colorful and delcious!
Great new header – very cute!
YUM! I love love love fish tacos, and have wanted to kick it up by using salmon.
Nicely done–I love this.
Love your new look too!
Yum! We love fish tacos!
Sigh. Just for a day, I want to be Lincoln. This looks like a fabulous meal! As usual, it’s not just the tacos with you two. It’s pico . . . lime crema . . . cilantro lime rice. You make sure every detail is perfect! I LOVE this dinner!
I love fish tacos. These look so simple but tasty…love the pico and sour cream sauce.
I love any type of fish tacos. I will have to try salmon. Love your new blog header!
Fish tacos are one of my ultimate favorite things to eat in the world. I haven’t ever had them with salmon. I am definitely making these. They look so good!
great, great idea!!! 🙂
OMG, you want to make me hungry?! These tacos look mighty scrumptious!
Cheers,
Rosa
An excellent way to spoil a good friend. These look fantastic!
The peas are great in your new header!
Interesting – I would never have thought of putting salmon in a taco! Looks great
Matty would like this. I never make salmon.
The new header is wonderful! I love these tacos. This would be a great way to eat more fish and Mexican!
Love the new header too. I would never have though about doing salmon taco’s – great idea
Yes you read it right…
I am the Lincoln referred to in this post. Often I too will look at the blog and wish.
But not today. I lived the dream I not only saw the fish taco on the blog I saw it cooked, served up, photo-graphed, and consumed by me.
The pictures are amazing and to say the food looks professional would be to slander it. It is above professional, Made by Josh and Maria themselves served on their very own dining room table.
Tell me where you can go “professionally” and get such service? I tell you it is a truly unique experience.
A word to Cathy…I can see how you would want to be me for just a day…I get that all the time…
Lucky for me I am me and I get to be spoiled by their cooking on a regular basis. Oh I don’t want to give away insider information related to the blog but Fish Tacos were only the beginning of my eating odyssey this weekend.
A quick word about the L in the Header…I will let you guess whose name it refers to for yourselves.
Thanks everyone! We are liking the new look of our blog too:)
Salmon is great in tacos! Give these a try!
And Lincoln-you always crack me up! I am so glad you enjoyed this meal! But the L is for Lichty NOT Lincoln..ha!! You are the best! Thanks for stopping by the blog!
You have killed me with this one. I just had fish tacos on my last day of working when I got laid off and they tasted amazing. I have been dying to go back. THIS photo really is awesome!!!!!!!
And your header is awesome, the cooking couple – cute!!!
I love salmon and tacos–why have I never put them together!?
Looks delicious. Check out my blog for the award I gave to you.
Oh I am going to have to try these soon!! I love fish tacos and never thought to make them with salmon. Looks delicious!!
Love the new header!!
first of all, great header!
secondly, cabo fish taco is a restaurant chain that i used to go to all the time and now miss immensely. what do you know–all along i could’ve been making my own! 🙂
I love your new header! Maria, I love fish tacos. Yours will be on my menu very soon.
i was wondering about the L, hehe, but i get it now 🙂 i was just thinking is that new? as i scrolled down, got distracted by the salmon tacos, then found my answer. LOVE IT!!
Great new header and gorgeous photo! This is definitely my kind of meal.
I LOVE fish tacos, but have never had them with salmon. Will have to try that next time.
Oh yum – those look sooooo delicious, and healthy too!
I usually make fish tacos with snapper, will have to try it with salmon next time.
I miss Fish Tacos from S. Cali… oh this looks so wonderful… I am not sure if I can find corn tortillas (did you heat them in the microwave or put them over the grill)?
The pictures look fabulous, and everything looks delicious!!
These look fantastic and very different. I love that!
The L on our header stands for Lichty, our last name!
Girl Japan-We put the tortillas in some foil and put them in a skillet on the stove to warm up. Just flip them so every side gets warm. Or you can put them in the oven too!
I love the new header, too – and these look amazing!
Honestly, I’ve always been a little afraid of fish tacos. But these look so good, Maria. Love the new look, too!
The tacos are amazing!! Your header is really cute! I love it!
A healthy & delish twist to tacos…I'll have 5…oops, there goes the healthy part! lol
That new header is beautiful, & so are these yummy tacos. WOW!!
That looks totally scrummy. You know, you shouldn’t feed your guests so well or they tend to stick around. 🙂
I love all kinds of fish tacos! Salmon sounds excellent.
LL
Love your salmon tacos Maria!! Yum!
OH MY! The salmon tacos look and sound fantastic! I bet the Lime Crema would be good on so many things!
Fish tacos are such a wonderful treat and your version with the lime crema sounds very good. We love to get the ones from Lone Star Taqueria on Ft. Union Blvd. If you haven’t been there, Maria, you have to try it. None of their fish is grilled and their ingredients are very fresh.
Dara-we love Lonestar. We stop there after hiking in the summer.
I LOVE seafood tacos and have actually never made them with salmon. These look amazing. I’ll be making them soon.
I’ve yet to have seafood tacos, I really need to try, they all look so good!
Looks so fresh and healthy! I’m always looking for new salmon recipes.
I love salmon but I’ve never had it in tacos. I’ll have to give this recipe a try. It looks delicious!
So yummy! These were a hit! ! We brought Alaskan salmon to family in CO and everyone loved them! Thanks!
May I just say thank you for the delicious recipe!! I love salmon and I’ve been curious to try a salmon taco recipe for awhile. Just decimated half of my taco right now……About to enjoy the other -Thanks!