This is it – the most perfect fish tacos sauce! Creamy, spicy, tangy, and smooth, and it goes great over any kind of fish (or shrimp) tacos you’re craving!
Want all the fish tacos recipes? Try these favorites: Thai Salmon Tacos, Baja Fish Tacos, and Best Fish Tacos with Slaw.
You all know how much I LOVE sauces and condiments. I mean, more than the average person (maybe too much more, if that’s possible.) There is no exception to my sauce loving when it comes to fish tacos, either. A flavorfully seasoned fish taco deserves and equally flavorful sauce on top and this one delivers! A little spicy, creamy (thanks Greek yogurt!), and tangy, it’s the perfect topping for all your fish and seafood tacos and beyond!
Why This Recipe Works
Easy – 5 minutes! FIVE! It doesn’t get shorter or easier than that!
Tasty – You wouldn’t believe how just a few simple ingredients can taste so GOOD together! You’ll want to put this easy fish tacos sauce on any and all fish, shrimp, and other meats too. It’s not just limited to fish. This quick sauce goes great on everything!
Healthy – By using half Greek yogurt and half mayo, I have cut out some of the unhealthy fats and added more protein. You could also use all Greek yogurt for that matter and no mayo at all if you want it even healthier!
Simple ingredients – The fanciest ingredient in this sauce for fish tacos is adobo sauce and you can get that in a can of chipotles in the Mexican/ethnic food aisles in probably just about any grocery store. Easy!
Here’s How You Make It
I don’t even think I need to write out directions for this simple quick fish taco sauce, but here goes. Are you ready?
- Whisk together all of the ingredients in a bowl. (photo 1)
- Taste the fish sauce and then add a little extra lime juice if you like for flavor and consistency, then serve with your favorite fish tacos. Enjoy! (photo 2)
What Goes Good with Fish Tacos?
In addition to this fish tacos sauce recipe (of course), there are many, many ingredients I like to serve alongside fish tacos. In no particular order:
- Shredded lettuce, cabbage, or slaw
- Mango salsa
- Cilantro
- Diced red onion (or pickled)
- Jalapenos (fresh or jarred)
- Crema or queso fresco
- Chipotle sauce/hot sauce
- Red pepper flakes
- Squeeze of lime juice
- Corn
- Black beans
- Salsa
What Goes with Tacos Other Than Rice?
Looking for a side to serve with fish tacos that isn’t rice? I have you covered!
- Mexican Street Corn Pasta Salad is a great side for fish tacos. The recipe says to add chicken, but skip it if you want, it’ll be just as tasty!
- Grilled Corn on the Cob with Chimichurri Butter is the most perfect side for any meal, but especially fish tacos!
- Instead of rice, try making lentils, quinoa, or beans as a side.
- For more corn sides, try this Corn Salsa or Cornbread.
- Serve chips on the side of this Mexican Volcano Dip for the perfect nosh.
- Stuff poblano peppers with beans and the other ingredients in this recipe for Southwest Stuffed Poblano Peppers.
Expert Tips
- Mayo really gives this sauce for fish tacos its rich creaminess and my favorite is the mayo made with olive oil. Light mayo works great too though, and you can substitute some of the mayo for more Greek yogurt to make this sauce a bit healthier – but my favorite version is as written with 1/2 cup each mayo and Greek yogurt and just keep in mind that you are only using about a tablespoon on each taco!
- For thinner fish sauce you can drizzle, add more lime juice or a tablespoon of water or milk to the sauce.
- You can find Chipotle adobo sauce at the grocery store, it’s just the sauce that’s in a can of chipotle peppers. However, I’ve recently seen that some stores are carrying a new variety that has only the adobo sauce in it rather than peppers and sauce!
- This fish tacos sauce recipe makes about one cup of sauce (which actually goes pretty far!). This recipe can easily be halved or doubled as desired and keeps well in the fridge in an airtight container up to a week.
- To make this fish tacos sauce recipe even spicier, add a dash or two of your favorite hot sauce then mix all the ingredients together.
More Scrumptious Sauce Recipes
- Best Teriyaki Sauce
- BBQ Sauce
- Greek Tzatziki Sauce
- Homemade Buffalo Sauce
- Cajun Seasoning
- Chimichurri
- Fish Tacos with Slaw
Did you make this easy and delicious 5-Minute Fish Tacos Sauce? YAY! Please rate the recipe below!
5-Minute Fish Tacos Sauce
Ingredients
- ½ cup mayo - see note
- ½ cup plain Greek yogurt or sour cream
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- juice of 3 limes
- 2 tablespoons chipotle adobo sauce
Instructions
- Whisk together all ingredients.
- Taste, add a little extra lime juice if desired for flavor and consistency, and serve with your favorite fish tacos. Enjoy!
Great sauce quick simple easy great taste
There is a wide variety of size in limes. I suspect that the limes I have in my refrigerator now are at least 4 times the size of the limes I found in my grocery store last week. It would be helpful to indicate an amount of lime juice (1/4 cup, 1/2 cup, etc.) rather than the unhelpful “juice of 3 limes”.
On average, a lime yields about 2 tablespoons of juice. So you would need about 6 tablespoons of lime juice.
Unfortunately this didn’t work out for us. The sauce was very thin (maybe I had too big/juicy of limes, 🤷🏻♀️ but it was very thin (water consistency). I even tried to fix it by doubling all the other ingredients and nothing. I tasted it and it was very lack lust 😞. I was so hopeful that I found a recipe that cwould match that beloved On the Border fish taco sauce but I am on the look for one again.
I was wondering how well this might freeze? Ever tried it? I’m by myself so always leftovers.
I haven’t tried it. I wonder how the greek yogurt or sour cream would hold up in the freezer. If you try it, I would start with only freezing a little bit as a test.
Excellent fish taco sauce! Make this for your fish tacos!!
Great flavor and easy to make!
Tonight I made pan fried cajun tilapia corn tortilla tacos with an EASY sauce to drizzle over the tacos-made of sour cream/picante salsa/lime juice & a little salt and paprika…OMG SO GOOD!!!!!!
These were amazing! My whole family loved them, even my fish-loathing son. Everyone asked for more and to make again! Thank you for such a great recipe.
That’s great! So glad the family enjoyed it.
This is a great recipe, the only change to how I make mine is to use Sriracha in place of the adobo sauce since that was the first recipe for fish taco sauce I had come across. The version with Sriracha is delicious but I’m sure this variation will be just as good and if I had any adobo sauce I would definitely try it but I still only have Sriracha so for those of you that might not have adobo sauce on hand, I’d recommend trying it with Sriracha if that’s what you have.
This sauce is awesome. My husband and I have been trying to duplicate a sauce from a place we use to go to that we loved. This is so close to that sauce. I highly recommend it. I only used 2 limes my husband not a lime fan he thought. But liked this!!!
Thanks for your positive feedback, Marsha! Glad you enjoyed this recipe.
Quick question: the image shows 6 ingredients, but the ingredient list only calls for 5 (adobo sauce, lime, yogurt, mayo, and salt). What is the sixth? Thank you!
Yes, sorry about that! The recipe is updated. Thanks for pointing that out!
I love this 5 min.taco sauce. I’ve tried so many sauces with disappointment.This is so simple but wonderful.Im so happy.
So happy to hear that! Thanks, Jeanie!
Oh wow! I made it with my homemade mayo and light sour cream, used the chilies and adobo sauce ( about half the can) and blended it in the blender. So glad I juice my extra limes and freeze the juice. This is excellent
Thank you for your feedback, Patti!
Tiffany, I love your recipe but have had a problem with the 5-minute taco sauce. I cut the recipe in half and with the juice of only one lime the consistency was very watery. I’m using all greek yogurt instead of a blend of mayo and yogurt. Surely that can’t make that much of a difference. I had to throw it out and start again… this time with juice of 1/2 lime. Flavor is great but curious if anyone else has made this recipe and found the same results that I did.
It likely comes down to your sour cream or Greek yogurt. If there is liquid sitting on top, it should be stirred in before using. Also, maybe you were lucky and got extremely juicy limes? You could scale back the amount of lime juice used next time.
You throw away the sauce because it was too watery? You could have just added more of the Mayo or cream.
I had the same problem! And with the man that said to add more mayo….. I doubled the mayo and yogurt and it didn’t fix it! Still very watery.
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Thank you! Never knew that this sauce was so easy to make. I used almond yogurt instead of sour cream and added the lime juice per taste as plant based yogurts taste more tarte to me. For an extra kick, I added a chopped a pepper.