Baja Fish Tacos
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Baja Fish Tacos are a fun, easy, and tasty way to upgrade fish sticks. Everyone gets to build their own ideal taco! Parent and kid-approved!

Baja Fish Taco Recipe
I have a yummy and simple dinner idea for you today, brought to you from the fridge and freezer sections of your grocery store, Baja Fish Tacos! I know last year I posted my Easiest Fish Tacos recipe and lots of you went crazy over it because I used plain old fish sticks. Groundbreaking, right? I hate frying food {especially fish} because the smell lingers in my house for literally days. I can’t stand it! So, this is my easy shortcut that takes no time at all.
Main Ingredients Needed
Here’s everything you’ll need to make these Baja fish tacos and its accompanying Baja fish taco sauce.
- Fish Sticks – this is my secret to making fast and delicious fish tacos! All the flavor without the frying smells.
- Sour Cream – this makes the sauce tangy and creamy.
- Avocado – more creamy goodness plus gentle avocado flavor. This will make your sauce slightly green.
- Garlic – for flavor.
- Taco Seasoning – use store-bought or make your own! Either way, it’s going to be delicious.
- Salt and Pepper – to taste.
- Tortillas – corn, flour or both? You choose 🙂
- Toppings – any topping you put on a regular taco would go well with these tacos too!

Baja Fish Taco Sauce
Start by making the Baja Fish Taco Sauce:
- Place some sour cream, garlic, salt, pepper, avocado, and taco seasoning into a blender.
- Blend it up until it’s smooth, taste and adjust seasonings as you see fit. That’s it! Easy Peasy.
- Pour this into a bowl or a squeeze bottle and set aside.

How to Make Baja Fish Tacos
- The other important thing for this recipe and really the last step is to bake up some fish sticks. I bought the VandeKamp’s extra crunchy kind, but you can use whichever kind you’d like.
- Basically, once the fish sticks are baked and the sauce is done, it’s just a matter of laying all your ingredients out and letting everyone build their own tacos come dinner time. I laid out a variety of tortillas, some shredded red cabbage, cilantro, avocado slices, sour cream, greek yogurt, and pre-shredded Mexican blend cheese.
My daughter ate two whole Baja fish tacos on her own with a few extra fish sticks after…it was awesome! Taco bars….who knew?
Customization
How many of you love to customize your own tacos? I know the people in my family do! Usually, for taco night, I just lay all the toppings out on the table and let everyone take care of their own plates. This Baja fish taco recipe is no different. I just lay all the ingredients out and let my husband and kids do their own thing. It’s probably one of the least stressful dinners I serve because it takes less than 30 minutes to throw together and I know everyone will lick their plates clean.
I don’t know about you guys, but whenever we include our kids in the process of making dinner, they are more likely to eat their dinner AND talk at the dinner table. I’ve come to figure out little ways to include the two of them almost every night in the process to create more family time and make it more of a ‘quality’ meal. Whether it’s making their own tacos, setting the table or tearing lettuce, I get them involved. My style of cooking doesn’t change, but the way I go about including my family members does. And what do you know…it makes a big difference.

More Taco Recipes to Rock your World!
- Mojito Lime Fish Taco Recipe
- Shrimp Tacos
- Taco Lettuce Wraps
- The Easiest Fish Tacos
- Taco Sloppy Joes
- Asian Beef Tacos
This is my super simple shortcut to make fish sticks into amazing Baja Fish Tacos. Who knew frozen fish sticks could be so….gourmet? So super fast and delightfully delicious!
Have a great day, friends!

Baja Fish Tacos
Ingredients
- 23 oz. VandeKamp’s Crunchy Fish Sticks 1 box
for the baja sauce:
- 1 cup Daisy light sour cream
- 1 ripe avocado
- 1 clove garlic grated
- 2 tablespoons taco seasoning
- salt & pepper to taste
taco ingredients:
- 4 corn tortillas or flour tortillas
- shredded cabbage
- cilantro
- sour cream
- greek yogurt
- shredded cheese
- any other desired toppings
Instructions
- Cook fish sticks according to package directions.
- While fish sticks are baking, place all ingredients for Baja sauce into a blender and whir until combined and sauce is smooth 20-30 seconds. Pour into a bowl or squeeze bottle.
- Place taco ingredients and toppings into bowls and onto a table with the Baja fish taco sauce and hot fish sticks. Let everyone serve themselves and enjoy!





My family loves these!
One of the very first recipes of yours I tried! This sauce is my go to every time I make tacos now!! My kids love them too!
Would love to try these tacos! I have a picky eater but I love fish!
These look amazing!! Can’t wait to try them!!
This is quickly becoming one of our family’s favorites!
These were great. I made a bunch of changes to the baja sauce, based on what I had, using sour cream, guacamole, garlic powder, cayenne powder, chile powder, and cumin. So good! Thanks for posting.
A quality meal for me is all homemade, or at least with as few chemicals as possible; and also that it was worth the time it took to make!
To me, a quality meal is good, wholesome food eaten at the table where we talk about our day.
A quality meal to me is something that is well balanced with lots of variety and plenty of fresh fruit or vegetables. I also prefer to have locally grown, that is a part of quality to me.
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