Fish Taco Sauce

This creamy, smoky, and slightly spicy sauce is the perfect fish taco sauce! Delicious with blackened, grilled, or battered fish tacos, this versatile sauce is easy to make and sure to please everyone. Inspired by California fish tacos.

What Makes This Sauce So Good

• It’s a flawless blend of creamy, tangy, and spicy! You can dial the heat or up or down to your liking, too.
• I know it’s called fish taco sauce, but there’s really nothing fish-specific in these ingredients. You could also use this sauce on shrimp fajitas or with chicken nuggets, on burger bowls, or on a yummy cobb salad.
• Feeding a group? Doubling or tripling this recipe is super easy. There’s really no extra work involved!
• If you’re meal prepping, this sauce is perfect! A batch of fish taco sauce will keep in the refrigerator up to two weeks. Be sure to store it in an airtight container to keep it fresh and prevent any other fridge scents from mixing with it.

Key Ingredients

Chipotle Peppers in Adobo Sauce – This is where your sauce gets that delicious smoky flavor. If heat is your thing, you can increase the amount of adobo sauce you use, or use a whole chipotle pepper instead of half of one. If you’re heat sensitive, leave out the chipotle pepper.

Sour Cream and Mayonnaise – Total rockstars. They add a little tang to the sauce without overpowering the other flavors, and they give it that incredible creamy consistency. If you’re not a fan of sour cream, you could use plain yogurt instead.

Chef’s Tips

• The flavor is great immediately, but oh my damn, it’s incredible if you let it sit for a little while first! When I have time to spare, I’ll mix this fish taco sauce up and then chill it, covered, in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours, to really maximize the flavors!
• A blender (or food processor) is really a must to get the perfect, smooth consistency. If you don’t have one, you can whisk everything together by hand instead! Be sure to dice the chipotle pepper first, or skip the pepper and use more adobo sauce.
• To make drizzling the fish taco sauce over your food a little easier, transfer the mixture into a squeeze bottle, or spoon it into a zip-top plastic bag and snap a small corner of the bag off with a pair of scissors. If you’re not using all of your sauce right away, though, don’t put the entire mixture in the plastic bag, since you won’t be able to store it like that.

More Fish Recipes You’ll Love

• Baked Fish with Lemon-Garlic Butter
• Air Fryer Fish Sticks
• Italian Fish Stew
• Easy Fish Tacos with Slaw and Chipotle Sauce
• Whole30 Fish Taco Bowls with Mango Salsa, Chipotle Aioli, Coconut-Lime Cauliflower Rice (Paleo)
• Air Fryer Salmon

Recipe By: Cheryl Malik

Fish Taco Sauce

Prep 5 minutes minutes

Cook 0 minutes minutes

Mix Time 3 minutes minutes

Total 8 minutes minutes

This creamy, smoky, and slightly spicy sauce is the perfect fish taco sauce! Delicious with blackened, grilled, or battered fish tacos, this versatile sauce is easy to make and sure to please everyone. Inspired by California fish tacos.

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8 servings

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Equipment

• standard blender or food processor

Ingredients

• ▢ ½ cup sour cream or plain yogurt
• ▢ ¼ cup mayonnaise
• ▢ ½ of one chipotle pepper from can of adobo sauce
• ▢ 2 teaspoons adobo sauce
• ▢ 1 clove garlic peeled
• ▢ ¼ teaspoon salt
• ▢ juice of ½ to ¼ lime as desired

Instructions

• Place all ingredients in a blender or food processor bowl. Blend until smooth. Transfer finished sauce to jar or squeeze bottle. Serve immediately or refrigerate until chilled.
  

• For more heat, add a little more adobo sauce or use a full chipotle pepper. For less heat, leave out the chipotle pepper altogether.
• Make it Dairy Free: Use dairy-free sour cream.
• Make it Vegan: Use vegan mayonnaise and sour cream.

 

Recipe yields approximately 8 servings. Nutritional values shown reflect information for 1 serving. Macros may vary slightly depending on the specific brands of ingredients used.

To determine the size of one serving, prepare the recipe as instructed, then weigh the entire recipe when finished. Divide the total weight (not including the weight of the bowl, pot, or plate the food is in) by 8. Result will be the weight of one serving.

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Approximate Information for One Serving

Serving Size: 1servingCalories: 81calProtein: 1gFat: 8gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 10mgSodium: 355mgPotassium: 30mgTotal Carbs: 1gFiber: 1gSugar: 1gNet Carbs: 0gVitamin A: 146IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 19mgIron: 1mg

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Number of total servings shown is approximate. Actual number of servings will depend on your preferred portion sizes.

Nutritional values shown are general guidelines and reflect information for 1 serving using the ingredients listed, not including any optional ingredients. Actual macros may vary slightly depending on specific brands and types of ingredients used.

To determine the weight of one serving, prepare the recipe as instructed. Weigh the finished recipe, then divide the weight of the finished recipe (not including the weight of the container the food is in) by the desired number of servings. Result will be the weight of one serving.

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