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This was so easy to put together. It was full of flavor – everything included packs a big punch. And the cilantro? Let me sing the praises of cilantro! Gloria!
Bob Harper wants me to eat more fish.
But Bob has not been to the fish market on my street, and something tells me that eating fish from the market would do something scary to my weakling Western digestive system.
I want to be a really savvy person who lives in the Philippines and shops for fish at her local market, but you guys. I am Type A and I have an irrational fear of the fish eyeballs staring at me and the big knives covered with fish scales. I think I’ll hold off on the fish market just yet.
So I bought familiar-looking fish filets from the grocery store. No eyes or anything. Then I cooked them, put them a bowl with all my favorite things and devoured it in .4 seconds.
Bob is on to something here.
This is like a Chipotle burrito bol, but it’s made with spicy fish and you can put as many pieces of avocado on as you want without paying two dollars extra. It’s what my Mexican food dreams are made of: avocado, brown rice, garlic, roasted corn and peppers, black beans, avocado, cilantro, cheese, avocado, and spicy fish. And avocado. With a little avocado on top.
Besides eating 100 of these bowls, the only thing that would be a better use of my time is melting in the arms of a four year old girl.
Is this real life?
Spicy Fish Taco Bowls
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
Description
These spicy fish taco bowls are my favorite way to eat fish! Spicy sauteed tilapia in a bowl with avocados, black beans, and roasted corn? Yes, please.
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
- 1 tablespoon cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 3–4 tilapia filets (or other fish filet of your choice)
- 1–2 cloves minced garlic
- 1 cup fresh sweet corn kernels (sliced off the cob is the best)
- 1 red onion, diced
- 1 red pepper, diced
- 1 can black beans
- cooked brown rice (I used about 2 cups)
- fresh cilantro, avocado, shredded cheese, sour cream, or pico de gallo for topping
Instructions
- Mix the spices together in a small bowl and sprinkle evenly over both sides of the fish filets. (I like to season my fish a LOT, but just sprinkle on however much looks good to you.) Add salt and pepper to taste.
- In a large nonstick skillet over medium high heat, heat a drizzle of olive oil. Add the garlic and saute for 1-2 minutes. Add the fish filets to the pan. Grill the fish on each side for several minutes, checking the middle for doneness (fish should be completely white and flake apart easily). Remove fish filets and set aside.
- Add corn, red peppers, and onions to the pan with no additional oil. Heat over high heat for several minutes WITHOUT stirring to get a brown/black roasted look on the outside. Repeat for several minutes (stir, wait, stir, wait) until the peppers and onions are tender-crisp. Add the black beans and heat through.
- Layer rice, corn/pepper mixture, and fish in a bowl – or mix everything together in the skillet. Top with any of the toppings listed above!
Notes
My favorite toppings were the cilantro, avocado, and pico de gallo (or just salsa).
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Category: Dinner
- Cuisine: Mexican-Inspired
Nutrition Facts
- Daily value: 7% Total Fat 5.2g
- Daily value: 19% Cholesterol 58mg
- Daily value: 6% Sodium 133.5mg
- Daily value: 32% Total Carbohydrate 89.2g
- Daily value: 63% Dietary Fiber 17.6g
- Sugars 6.7g
- Daily value: 93% Protein 46.3g
- Daily value: 9% Vitamin A 80.7µg
- Daily value: 48% Vitamin C 43.3mg
- Daily value: 40% Iron 7.2mg
- Daily value: 42% Potassium 1962.2mg
- Daily value: 51% Phosphorus 634.9mg
Keywords: fish taco bowl, spicy fish taco bowl, spicy fish taco
One thing: How did it become AUGUST? Sheesh.
I only used a half a red onion and I added extra corn, and the recipe was delicious. I did not feel like the recipe was spicy hot, but had good flavor. I didn’t salt my fish properly, so I’ll adjust that next time. Great recipe!
I made this tonight. It was very bland. Needs salt and lime!
Amazing recipe! Loved it! So delicious and easy to make! thank you so much!
This was delicious! A keeper. Easily made by my 19-year old son for the family. We’re in Australia, and found barramundi fish fillets to be perfect. The charred veggies were amazing, and a lovely change from our usual Mexican-style bean salad.. The only change we made was to use less chilli powder (Aus chilli powder is MUCH hotter than US chilli powder, strangely). Yum!
This is in our top recipes. The ones I pass along. Thank you.
So happy to hear this, Valerie!
Hi, can you tell me how many calories are in this dish please?
I made the fish bowls last night and really enjoyed them, I have heaps of left over vegetables so tonight I’m going to turn this into chicken bowls 🙂
Hi Leanna! The calories in this dish are 575 – you can find the full nutrition label in the recipe card! Glad you enjoyed them!
Looks like a good recipe but get rid of the tilapia… It’s poisonous!!
I’m not doing Whole 30, but I’m trying to reduce carbs a bit, so I’ve been looking at your Whole 30 recipes. This sounded so good. I’ve made it two nights this week! Love the seasoning blend and the combo of all the flavors! I pickled some red onion and put it on top!
This was great! Like Chipotle but better
I’ve been on a taco bowl/salad kick lately and my normal go-to recipe is getting a bit bland.. Definitely trying this tonight and I can’t wait! It looks fantastic and if it’s anything like your other recipes I’ve tried, it will be!
I am cooking this right now and it smells so good!
The last few times I’ve visited your website I noticed that my page gets stuck on the ad video. It will jump down to the ad while I’m looking at the recipe and I can’t scroll back up. Seems to only happen on a computer (tested on two different computers and OSs) and not my phone.
Thanks for letting us know, Monica!
This was so good, fried fish in flour instead and used guacamole topping with brown rice. Absolutely filling and delicious.
Glad you liked it! 🙂
I LOVE fish markets lol! Had no clue that someone would find it offensive to senses. Thank you for the recipe. But can you please fix your ad for getting your top 25 best recipes for 2014 for free? I tried my both e-mails, and both times it failed, saying my e-mail address is invalid 🙁