The #NBAXmas Cookbook offers an interactive and festive experience where NBA Fans can try recipes from all 30 teams’ home markets.
Each team was challenged to showcase a recipe that best represents their region’s most iconic culinary food. This recipe ranges from a favorite snack, dish or dessert that is unique to the team and fanbase.
Find the origin of each recipe and everything you need to create it below.
Beer Battered Baja Fish Tacos
When it comes to LA eats, the city offers a triple threat of flavorful Mexican cuisine, fresh seafood and local produce born from a culturally diverse population and coastal to valley landscapes. Our Beer Battered Baja Fish Tacos recipe combines all the best LA has to offer into a savory slam dunk meal. Compliments of Chef Saul Martin of Martin’s Cocina y Cantina of Inglewood California, this recipe is perfect for Clippers watch parties or a delicious Taco Tuesday family meal.
Ingredients:
| 4 pieces of Sea Bass (∼ ½ lb. each) or use halibut, haddock, mahi-mahi, tilapia, or grouper. |
| 1 package corn tortillas (or flour tortillas if preferred). |
| 1 cup frying oil |
| 1 12 oz. can Mexican beer (Corona, Dos Equis, or Modelo) |
| 2 cups all-purpose flour |
| 2 eggs |
| Salt and cayenne pepper for batter |
| Mayonnaise, milk, 1 can chipotle peppers for chipotle sauce |
| 1 cup sours cream |
| ½ head green and ½ head purple cabbage |
| 3 limes for pico de gallo and garnish |
| 1 bunch of cilantro for pico de gallo and garnish |
| 2 tomatoes, 2 serrano jalapenos and red chopped onions for pico de gallo |
Directions:
- Season fish with salt and seasoning.
- Make chipotle sauce: Blend mayonnaise, chipotle peppers, milk, salt, and pepper.
- Prepare batter: Mix Flour, salt, cayenne pepper, egg, and beer in a bowl.
- Fry: Heat oil to 350°, dip fish in batter fry for about 5 minutes each side.
- Warm tortillas and assemble tacos: warm tortillas, add fried fish, cabbage, pico de gallo. Top with chipotle sauce and sour cream
