Air Fryer Fish Tacos: How to Make Spicy, Healthy Tacos de Pescado

February 2024
By Vivi Abeja
Recipe from Mexico

These air fryer fish tacos with jalapeño-flavored cabbage slaw and pickled red onions are Chicago cook Vivi Abeja’s No. 1 pick when we asked her for a Mexican dish that is waist-friendly and super delicioso. She explains that she especially likes to make these spicy, flavor-packed tacos in January, when new year’s resolutions and post-holiday weight loss goals are still top of mind for so many of us.

But their healthy-for-you factor is not why she loves making them, and her friends love eating them, she adds. It’s because they taste so good. ”These tacos are show-stoppers!” says Vivi. Watch her make them in this how-to video: from air-frying the fish and prepping the creamy coleslaw with two kinds of cabbage, to pickling the red onion and blending the avocado-lime salsa. Delicioso and diet-friendly. For more seafood taco recipes from our community of homecooks, check out Familia Kitchen faves: MariCarmen’s Baja-style fish tacos and these essential and easy shrimp tacos with lots of garlic.

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Vivi Abeja is happiest making traditional Mexican traditional recipes for people she loves. She grew up in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, where in 2021, during COVID, she started selling cafe de olla and Michoacan-style uchepos and corundas in front of her abuelita’s house. Vivi was in the first graduating class of Chicago’s Food He.ro Latino-led culinary school. Catch her Instagram Lives at Vivis_Table, where she teaches viewers how to make Mexican recipes. ”Food is my love language and sharing food with people makes my heart full.”

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