When it comes to cooking fish, there are four ingredients that no kitchen should be without:

• Limes
• Sea Salt
• Cracked Pepper
• Corriander

Marinating and grilling any white fish using the above combination can bring any fish hater to their knees, myself included. We’ve used it on tuna, snapper and halibut. The result? We now eat more fish.

If you’re entertaining a gang at the cottage and are looking for something unique, consider making fish fajitas. It’s a simple, straightforward meal that can be prepped in advance leaving you free to enjoy a drink with your guests. I like to serve them with corn on the cob and Spanish rice.

Ingredients

Sauce

• 1/2 cup mayonnaise
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 2 tbsp ketchup
• juice from one lime
• dash of hot pepper sauce

Mix all ingredients in a bowl; refrigerate.

Fish

• 1 3/4 pounds of halibut (or any white fish)
• juice from 3 limes
• course sea salt
• cracked pepper
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh coriander

Squeeze lime juice over fish (front and back). Sprinkle with salt, pepper and fresh corriander. Let stand for 15 minutes.

Tortillas

• 12 large white tortillas
• spicy fresh salsa

Preheat oven to 200 degrees F. Heat skillet over medium heat. Stack 2 tortillas. Sprinkle top with water. Place in skillet, wet side down. Heat 1 minute. Sprinkle top with water. Turn stack over, heat 1 minute. Transfer stack to large sheet of foil. Repeat. Enclose tortillas in foil. Place in over to keep warm.

Grill Fish

Place fish on a clean, lightly oiled preheated barbecue grill (I use a wire fish basket). Cook at medium heat approx. 4 minutes per each side depending on the thickness of the fish. Fish is cooked when flesh just flakes when tested. Cut into pieces.

Spread a teaspoon of sauce on each warm tortilla. Place several small chunks of fish on top. Add a teaspoon of fresh salsa and roll together, folding in the corners.

Serve with corn on the cob, nachos and cold Coronas.

Cheers,

Julie

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