Creamy Fish Taco Sauce

This creamy and flavorful fish taco sauce that makes them taste amazing! Lime, garlic and hot sauce are the perfect complement for flaky fish.

make fish tacos? Do we have the sauce for you! The Fish Taco Sauce is creamy, tangy, tasty and slightly spicy at the same time! This is our favorite way to top flaky fish tacos: they’re literally perfect with a quick slaw and a squeeze of lime. Don’t you like this sauce? Don’t worry, we have a few more fish taco sauce ideas that you might like. Let us begin!

Ingredients for making Fish Taco Sauce

This fish taco sauce is easy because let’s face it: when you’re making tacos, you want to focus your energy on the main event! There’s nothing worse than spending a lot of time over fish…only to find the sauce takes a long time and messes up a blender in the process. Not so with this fish taco sauce! You can do it in 5 minutes and whisk it up in a bowl. Here’s what you need (see recipe below for quantities):

• Sour cream or Greek yogurt + mayonnaise (see notes below)
• lime juice and zest
• Hot sauce (we love the Cholula brand)
• garlic powder
• Salt

All you have to do is mix them in a bowl: no chopping or mixing! This is our idea of ​​a simple sauce.

Use sour cream or Greek yogurt + mayonnaise!

This fish taco sauce comes in two variations: you can make it with sour cream or you can use Greek yogurt + mayonnaise. Here’s what you need to know about these variations:

• Sour Cream Sauce: This sauce is rich and creamy. It’s a little creamier than the option below, which has a tastier mayonnaise flavor.
• Equal parts Greek yogurt + mayonnaise: It’s our favorite way to make a mayonnaise-based sauce with fewer calories! This results in a super creamy and flavorful sauce that isn’t as rich as plain mayonnaise. (We use this philosophy in our amazing homemade ranch and caesar dressings.)

How to make it dairy free

Need a dairy-free fish taco sauce? No problem. You can replace the ½ cup sour cream in this recipe with:

• Vegan Mayonnaise: It’s easy to find vegan mayonnaise in grocery stores and online
• Cashew cream: Make a batch of cashew cream and use that instead.
• Vegan Sour Cream: Another option is this vegan sour cream, also with cashew nuts.

More fish taco sauce recipes

To use it in a fish taco, just head over to our Fish Taco Seasoning and Fish Taco Salad! Want some more sauce options? Any of these sauces would make a killer fish taco sauce:

• Easy Sour Cream Sauce This super quick sauce only takes 5 minutes for great flavor.
• Cilantro Lime Cream, Lime Cream, or Cilantro Lime Ranch You’ll want to bathe in these hot sauces! Both are great for drizzle over tacos (or roasted veggies).
• Easy Taco Sauce Like the glass version you find at the store… only better!
• Shrimp Taco Sauce This cilantro sauce is great for shrimp tacos but also perfect for fish tacos. Like a cilantro ranch dressing!
• Creamy Cilantro Sauce Another dairy-free option with cashews! The luster of the linden tree accentuates this green grass.
• Easy Chipotle Sauce This chipotle sauce is hot and made with tahini (also dairy-free).
• Avocado Taco Sauce Use the sauce on these crunchy avocado tacos for another twist.

This fish taco sauce recipe is…

Vegetarian, vegan, plant-based, dairy-free, and gluten-free (no fish… of course!)

More tacos!

You can use this recipe for any type of taco! Here are some of our favourites:

• Cauliflower Tacos with Yum Yum Sauce Breaded cauliflower, beans and silky yum yum sauce packs a punch!
• Grilled Shrimp Tacos A perfect recipe for dinner or a healthy weeknight meal with flavorful shrimp, Mexican coleslaw and a drizzle of spicy mayonnaise.
• Best Jackfruit Tacos In just 20 minutes, jackfruit turns into a plant-based version of pulled pork carnitas. These jackfruit tacos will blow your mind!