Salmon tacos
HB-8140 · Hand-built original · Mexican
Roast salmon rubbed with smoked paprika, onion powder, garlic powder and chilli, flaked into corn tortillas with cabbage slaw, mashed avocado and pickled red onion.
Main ingredient: salmon
Pairs well with: asparagus, lemon butter sauce, rice pilaf, cucumber salad, roasted potatoes
Ingredients
- 3½fl oz white wine vinegar
- 2 tbsp caster sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 small red onions, sliced
- 7oz salmon fillet, skin on and pin-boned
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- ½ tbsp smoked paprika
- ½ tbsp onion powder
- ½ tbsp garlic powder
- ½ tsp chilli powder
- ½ lemon, zest only
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- ¼ hispi cabbage, finely chopped
- ¼ red cabbage, finely chopped
- 4 spring onions, finely chopped
- 3½oz mayonnaise
- 3½oz soured cream
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 2 avocados, peeled, stones removed and flesh mashed
- 1 lime, juice only
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- small handful fresh coriander, finely chopped
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 6 white corn tortillas
- 2 tbsp chopped fresh coriander
- 1 lime, cut into wedges
Method
- Heat the oven to 400°F and simmer 6½ Tbsp of water with the white wine vinegar, caster sugar and salt for 1 minute, then pour the hot liquid over the sliced small red onions and leave them to pickle for 30 minutes.
- Cut the salmon fillet into two large pieces, set them skin-side down on a baking tray and stir the olive oil, smoked paprika, onion powder, garlic powder, chilli powder and lemon zest into a marinade.
- Coat the salmon pieces with the marinade, season them with salt and freshly ground black pepper and roast them for 10 to 12 minutes.
- Fold the hispi cabbage, red cabbage and spring onions together with the mayonnaise and soured cream, season this slaw with salt and freshly ground black pepper and set it aside.
- Mash the avocado flesh with the lime juice, crushed garlic clove and finely chopped coriander, and season the guacamole with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
- Char each white corn tortilla briefly over a hob flame with flameproof tongs until it crisps and darkens at the edges.
- Spread guacamole over the tortillas, pile the slaw on next, scrape the roasted salmon off its skin with a fork and lay the flakes over the slaw, then finish each taco with chopped fresh coriander, the drained pickled onions and a squeeze from the lime wedges.
Prep: 30 min · Cook: 30 min
Nutrition (per serving, where published)
Estimated from USDA FoodData Central ingredient data