Beef Tacos

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Beef Tacos – the old-fashioned beef mince approach!!! With juicy seasoned floor beef taco meat and crispy shells, this taco recipe is made with a easy but flavour packed selfmade taco seasoning that really tastes like retailer purchased. PS I received’t choose in case you use tortillas as an alternative… 🙂

Close up of Beef Taco recipe, fresh out of the oven, with taco meat and melted cheese

You’ll by no means discover floor beef / mince tacos in Mexico. Genuine beef tacos are both sliced seared steaks (like Carne Asada), or marinated beef chopped into skinny strips which might be pan fried to get golden crispy edges (taqueria type), or slow-cooked and shredded into sauce like this Shredded Beef Mexican Beef and Beef Barbacoa.

So beef mince tacos, the only hottest sort of taco meat made in million and hundreds of thousands of households the world over, is completely un-authentic.

And that’s completely okay. We love them anyway – and we’ll at all times love them!

That is how I make my previous college beef tacos – BAKING them to soften the cheese and crisp the tacos shells on the similar time. I don’t know if that’s “regular”, however I’ll take any alternative to soften cheese when acceptable.

Let me put it this fashion – if I had a alternative of a chilly slice of cheese slapped on bread, or a grilled cheese sandwich with gooey cheese oozing out the edges, I do know which one I’d select. And also you?? 😇

Preparation steps for baked Beef Taco recipe

Skip the packet seasoning! It actually is kind of unbelievable how easy it’s to make selfmade taco seasoning. Garlic, onion, cumin, paprika, oregano plus non-compulsory cayenne pepper for a contact of warmth.

Simply pure, regular spices and herbs – no scary sounding components you’ll be able to’t pronounce like maltodextrin, silicon dioxide and ethoxyquin that you just’ll discover in packets of retailer purchased!! (Sure actually, simply Google “Outdated El Paso taco seasoning components”)

This taco seasoning combine is a terrific staple so as to add to your arsenal for all issues Tex Mex, from Quesadillas to Burritos, Enchiladas to Taco Soup (don’t knock it till you’ve tried it, it’s superb!). Whereas shops promote completely different seasonings for every of those, basically they’ve the identical flavour base which is the Taco Seasoning combine used on this recipe.

Ingredients for the BEST Taco Meat

The taco meat recipe as written is my base recipe made with simply beef and onion, and it’ll stuff 10 tacos generously or 12 regular dimension tacos.

TIP: Add greens for additional diet and make one batch go additional. Capsicum/bell peppers, corn, black beans, zucchini, to call a couple of. If you happen to add greens, scale up the selfmade taco seasoning utilizing the recipe scaler (click on on servings and slide up).

There’s a plethora of taco topping choices, however as we speak I’m sticking with the old-fashioned approach: shredded cheese, taco sauce (non-compulsory), iceberg lettuce, tomato, onion and even bitter cream.

That’s proper of us. We’re going Tex-Mex all the best way. No fancy salsas, no genuine chilli sauces, no Mexican pickles.

Pile on that shredded cheese and bitter cream! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

Beef Taco Filling and Toppings

Simply to be clear – baking the tacos with the filling and cheese is completely non-compulsory.

If you happen to’re not a Melted-Cheese-Monster, by all means be happy to serve it the conventional approach – bake the empty taco shells then lay all of it out for individuals to stuff themselves. – Johnsat x


Extra taco topping choices

  • Guacamole, Avocado Sauce or avocado slices/diced

  • Pico de Gallo (chunky tomato salsa) or a clean Salsa Sauce

  • Taco Sauce or sizzling sauce / chilli sauce of alternative

And extra tacos

  • Fast Chicken Tacos – 2 in 1 recipe, shredded taco seasoned chicken AND taco sauce

  • Beef Tacos – the old-fashioned approach

  • Marinated Grilled Chicken Tacos

  • Gradual Cooked Shredded Mexican Chicken for Tacos

  • Fish Tacos – marinated and grilled, wholesome and scrumptious!

  • Pork Carnitas Tacos – the long-lasting Mexican pulled pork tacos

  • Shredded Beef Tacos – tender gradual cooked shredded beef in a deep flavoured Mexican sauce

  • Beef Barbacoa – one other braised, shredded beef, however tangier and punching by with chipotle chill flavours

Close up of Beef Taco recipe, fresh out of the oven, with taco meat and melted cheese

Typically it helps to have a visible, so watch me make this Beef Taco recipe – the old-fashioned approach!

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Sarah Miller
Sarah Miller

Hi, I’m Sarah Millar!
I’m a food blogger who loves creating quick and easy recipes that bring big flavor without the fuss. Cooking doesn’t have to be complicated — and I’m here to share simple, fast food ideas that anyone can make at home. When I’m not in the kitchen, you’ll usually find me tasting new dishes, exploring cafés, or coming up with fresh food hacks to make everyday meals more fun.

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