Smoked Swordfish Tacos, Baja California Style

 by sameotoko
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Greetings, People! This is my first Instructable, so please, be gentle...
This is my version of a popular dish form Baja California. Most of you guys must have probably heard of Baja from races and Spring Break, but I assure you there's a lot more to it than that.
Please notice that there's no Cheddar cheese, cumin or black olives involved. It's time we vindicate our food!

Friendly note to all anal-retentives:

Each and every food Instructable I've read is clouded with people's critiques on health

WE ALL KNOW THIS: This recipe involves large ammounts of smoked food (which has been linked to gastric cancer), fat, beer (yeah!) and Chiles and spices (double yeah!). It was also cooked outdoors at a public park by (god forbid!) a bunch of happilly intoxicated friends having a great time, not by people in lab coats and rubber gloves. We tried to keep it as clean as possible (after all, we're doctors), but we deffinitely didn't follow any public health codes.

If risk factors, people having fun cooking outdoors and alcohol consumption offend you, I encourage you to look elsewhere for recipes that more closely suit your tastes and lifestyle.
 
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Step 1: The ingredients

Sorry, guys, no pics of the fresh produce. We just chopped everything at home and kept it in freezer bags to take to the park to minimize food contamination and make things go smoother on location

Feeds 10 really drunk and hungry doctors (or about 16 regular people, coz we're pigs)

You will need:
5 lbs of smoked swordfish or tuna (I guess almost any kind of smoked fish would do, though)
2 large onions, sliced in half-moons
1 whole head of galic, crushed
1 head of cabbage, shredded
6 large tomatoes, cubed
4 large green bell peppers, cut into matchstick-sized sticks
1 large bunch of finely chopped cilantro
2 large containers (about 300g) of tomato sauce
1 large can of corn
1 large can of chipotle peppers in adobo sauce
about a cup and a half of vegetable oil

Soy sauce
Salt
Pepper
Oregano

Corn and flour tortillas
Lots of shredded manchego cheese

Also a large, oval baking dish or anything that can hold all this food and take the flames
Nachoman says: Apr 12, 2009. 12:13 PM
I just hope you didn't have to operate the following day. Looks great.
dra_dina says: Feb 4, 2009. 7:49 PM
inche Cardoza!!! a chambear!!! jajajaj no te creas, se ve muy rico, ahora debo conseguirme un traumatologo aca en Monterrey para que me los haga!! un abrazote!!!! saluud y provechito!!!! Dina
kalolo says: Jan 29, 2009. 10:15 AM
That looks really good, got to try that sometime, now i am hungry.
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