Happy Cinco de Mayo friends! If you're not sure what to do to celebrate today might we suggest a few things. 🙂 Celebrations often call for cocktails so try making a delicious and refreshing mojito or cucumber margarita! If you're in need of a shareable dip try jalapeno + kale guacamole or mango salsa. Yum! Or if you are in the mood to throw together a quick meal try a fajita salad or black bean tortilla soup. 
One of my all time favorite foods is fish tacos. I'd like to say it's a summer time favorite, but truth be told, it's an all year round favorite. To me the secret to good fish tacos is two fold. First, you must fry the fish. I'm sorry but baked fish just won't do for me. And second, you must top them with a creamy sauce and cabbage. If there isn't almost coleslaw on my fish tacos then forget it! 🙂
Let's talk about the fish first. Even though I like my fish fried I am a fan of going easy on the coating. Most fish frying batters you can buy turn out fairly thick, often with a course texture like cornmeal. I like that for other purposes, but not fish tacos. Once your fish (I used Tilapia fillets here) is thawed lightly season them with salt and pepper. Now dip the pieces in flour, then an egg wash (2 eggs whisked with 1 tablespoon water) then back into the flour. Fry in oil at 350°F until the fish begins to float. This won't take very long. Cook an additional minute or two, until the coating begins to brown slightly.
If you're not quite ready to serve be sure to tent the fish in aluminum foil to keep them warm for a few more minutes.
For the slaw you'll need: 1/3 head of green cabbage, 1/4 cup mayo, 1/2 tablespoon white vinegar, a sprinkle of sugar and generous sprinkle of salt + pepper.
Chop up the cabbage into thin strips. Stir together the mayo, vinegar, sugar, salt and pepper. Pour over the cabbage and stir until each piece is coated.
You may also want to chop up a few onions, fresh cilantro and tomatoes (if you remembered to buy a few… unlike me). 
Add some fresh avocado and squeeze on a little lime juice. Enjoy these! xo. Emma + Elsie
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This looks amazing. The cucumber margarita looks so good
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I never liked fish tacos until I had them fried for the first time. Now I will only eat fried fish in fish tacos — I have a local favorite here but they don’t serve them in winter. Just another reason to look forward to summertime! I love them with a bit of fresh lime, some spicy chipotle mayo sauce and coleslaw, just like you described! If I was braver about cooking fish (and we got it locally pretty fresh) , I’d definitely give this recipe a shot!
this looks absolutely delicious, you’re making my mouth water! happy cinco de mayo!
Yum! Those fish taco’s look so so good!
Fish tacos seem to be getting so popular. These look delicious!
perfect for summer.
Yum…fish tacos! Love the photos almost as much as I love avocados 🙂
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Wow, oh my this looks too good to just sit and stare at.. I feel my belly wanting to eat the screen 😉 haha <3
Love taco’s especially during the summer! Love to try this.
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YUM! This all looks sooooooooo good! Thanks for sharing!
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Oh yum! I love fish tacos! these look so good!
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It looks delicious !
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Oh that looks so delicious!
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want all of this!
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yum! i was just thinking about what mexican food i should make tonight for dinner :).
yum! perfect inspiration for this cinco de mayo!
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Those tacos look amazing!!!!
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This looks like such a yummy recipe! And lovely photos.
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Delicious! xx
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As mexican I must say these tacos looks great, but if you want a little more of color and flavor you CAN’T forget the molcajete salsa. 🙂
Your bean soup has become a favourite of mine,I make it almost weekly.these look yum!(today I ventured out and made coconut and lentil soup…I’m a soup kind of gal,what can I say…)
everything looks soooo delicious! oh and those fajitasss
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Looks delicious ! can’t wait to try it…
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Those look so yummy!
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So inspired about today now!!I’m gonna make the fajita salad and the mojito!!!:):)xx thanks so much girls!!!
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We don’t celebrate cinco de mayo in the UK but today is my brothers birthday so we get to celebrate anyhow!
Hola!
Acabo de descubrir tu blog y me encanta. El post de hoy es ideal. me encantan los tacos y estos se ven buenisimos.
Un besazoOo!
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yummy food!
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Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, anything served with a wedge of lime is good by me! Looks delish.Rx
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Happy Cinco De Mayo!
Looks delicious! On my to make list!
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I’ve always wanted to try fish tacos but have never had the opportunity so far! Thanks for the post, I’m definitely motivated to try these at home!!!
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I absolutely love fish tacos – yum! And I agree with you – the fish needs to be fried. Too late for me to make these tonight for dinner though…I already have chicken enchiladas in the oven! 🙂
You know what I love about you and your cooking, Emma? You forgot the tomatoes, SO WHAT!? Unlike some other food blogs where they use ingredients Ive never heard of or that are super expensive, you make real, every day food that is entirely achievable.
I’d love to go to a dinner party at your house!
Yum! I need to start cooking again!
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wow these look so fresh and yummy!
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Everything looks delicious!!! love the pictures
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Oh my. Those fish tacos look so savory. I’ll have to make some soon!
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This food looks delicious. I love Mexican food. I have it for dinner at least once a week!
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Sooo delightful !
Thank you for all your perfect ideas…
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Love good food. That dish looks incredible.
I really want to try fish tacos one day, they sound so fun! I don’t feel confident frying things though, so I had bean tacos to celebrate yesterday!
It looks so delicious <3<3<3
omg you’re the best! fish tacos are amazing.
We have been on a serious taco kick this year and had fish tacos yesterday too! We (re)discovered that we could make our own tortillas, with about as much effort as warming up packaged tortillas in a pan and they are so good. So easy that my 3 and 7 year old are in charge of making the tortillas on taco night. You just need masa, water a pinch of salt and a tortilla press (less than $15).
what do you celebrate on 5 de mayo?
Why type of oil do you use to fry the fish?
Looking fwd to making these!
Try them with salmon some time! It tastes just as meaty and filling as fried white fish without the frying. 😉
Ditto on the cabbage/coleslaw though!
I don’t celebrate Cinco de Mayo, but I LOVE fish tacos! When there is avocado involved… I’ll be there.
YUM! That all looks just soo delicious!
I love fresh Mexican food anytime!
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Yum! My dad loves fish tacos (so do I) and he would definitely agree about the coleslaw part! The cabbage just makes the fish tacos!!
I do fish tacos on a weekly basis. We like to make a beer batter that is 1:1 ratio of dark beer and flour then spice it up with some homemade taco seasoning. Some corn and cilantro salsa and a squeeze of lime on your taco really makes the dish.
I LOVE fish tacos, and this recipe looks amazing and simple, can’t wait to try it out! Thanks for posting it!
It always amazes me when I go eat out with my friends and they see fish tacos on the menu and flip out. They seem to be getting pretty popular, which is always a learning curve to me, because I grew up with fish tacos and any good Mexican meal would have a variety of meats for a taco (ever had a spam taco? or a barbacoa aka cow tounge taco?).
I remember eating fish tacos when I was younger for Lent since there was not much we could eat on a Friday. We’d have it sauteed like fajita meat, with my mom’s homemade salsa and lime juice, cabbage/lettuce and cheese. My grandmother was a strict Catholic and there was to be no meat eaten on ANY Friday, so my mother would have fish tacos as well growing, they’d catch the fish in the lake near their house and cook them! While my mother is more lax regarding the meat on Fridays thing, I do remember her doing the same to some shrimp and chopping them up for a shrimp taco.
Nifty side note, Aztecs, when they had an abundance of fish, they’d make tacos out of corn tortillas, beans and cooked fish, talk about a good pescatarian meal that is full of protein!
Oh, also, someone mentioned what do you celebrate on Cinco de Mayo.
Cinco de Mayo is better known as the Battle of Puebla, when Napoleon III thought it’d be a grand idea to put a royal in charge of Mexico for France’s interest since Mexico put a hold for two years on all foreign debt.
He put Maxamillian and his wife at the crowned King and Queen of Mexico, and the Mexicans who remember the oligarchy that came of the Penninsulares (people born in Spain living in Mexico) rule did not want any of that.
Well the French army and the Mexican army went to battle. On May 5, 1862 at Puebla, the French forces met the Mexican forces and a battle occured where the French forces were forced to flee. The Mexican army had a small victory, even though the French would end up winning the war.
According to some historians, the French were allies of the South during the Civil War, which was going on at the time of the Battle of Puebla. If the French had won the battle, they would have offered aid and supplies to the ailing southern army, and think of how history would be if that happened!
The day is celebrated in Puebla as a remembrance for the Battle and in the United States, Cinco de Mayo is kind of like a Mexican Pride day. Where the people celebrate the Mexican culture and what they have brought to the United States. Like St. Patrick’s day in America, Cinco de Mayo has a lot of drinking involved.
We actually have a holiday in Belgium on the fifth of May.
Not the same though XD
We call it “Day of labor/work”
This stuff seems yummy 😀