Mexican taco. Tacos: Mexican Appetizer Recipe

Tacos, burritos and enchiladas are some of the most famous Mexican dishes. Most national dishes, no matter what people, always have a strict recipe. And if you move away from it even a little, the dishes will no longer be considered real.

But tacos are a little different. All that can be unequivocally noted about him is that the taco is a tortilla that is filled with a very tasty filling. And the tortilla itself is a tortilla made from corn or wheat flour. A particularly favorite among Mexicans is a recipe in which corn tortilla is involved. The filling can be completely different.

A little about the dish

In general, in Mexico, a huge number of types of this dish were invented. For example, tacos, the recipe of which is considered the very first, were generally prepared using fish.

Today, you can experiment however you want. Do you like vegetables? Cook tacos with vegetables. Do you love a bird? And she will fit.

In general, tacos are considered the most common fast food in their homeland. A real cult of this dish has been created there. Each cafe can offer a huge number of all kinds of tacos, for every taste and color.

They are used strictly by hand, but for foreigners it is sometimes easier to use cutlery. It is better not to eat tacos with a lot of chili sauce, because the unprepared stomach of a person who came from another country may simply not be able to withstand this.

Learn how to make your own tacos.

Tacos: Recipebeef

Ingredients:

• half an onion;
• one clove of garlic;
• about 300 grams of finely chopped beef;
• a tablespoon of chili powder;
• Green pepper;
• eight tacos;
• 200 grams of cheese;
• 200 grams of lettuce leaves;
• two fresh tomatoes.

All ingredients are for four servings.

Cooking

The first thing you need to do is to finely chop the onion and pass the garlic through a garlic press.

Now simmer garlic, onion and meat over low heat for 5 minutes. This time is enough for the onion to become soft.

Next, add chili to the pan and simmer with it for another 10 minutes. In this case, the products must be stirred to prevent burning. Cook until the meat turns brown.

The next step is to add, without ceasing to stir, finely chopped pepper. Reduce heat and simmer for another 5 minutes.

Remove food from heat. The prepared mass should be laid out on taco cakes (if there are none, pita bread will do). In addition, you can put salads on the table. Thus, each member of the family will be able to form the filling to their own taste.

Tip: instead of finely chopped beef, minced meat is also suitable.

Tacos: Recipewith pork

Ingredients:

• 8 tortillas;
• 300 grams of pork;
• one avocado;
• a couple of tomatoes;
• 100 grams of grated hard cheese;
• chilli;
• lemon juice;
• vegetable oil and sour cream;
• sweet ground paprika and red pepper;
• cilantro;
• salt.

Cooking

Fry the tortillas. Just keep in mind that they are fried very quickly, which means that it is very important not to overdo it. Otherwise, they will turn out very brittle and dry.

Cut the pork into thin sticks and fry it lightly in vegetable oil. Add a little salt, red pepper, dried garlic and plenty of paprika to the pan.

Now cut the avocado in half and remove the pit. Peel the product from the peel and cut into cubes. Similarly, you need to cut and tomatoes. Everything is put in a bowl, vegetable oil, red pepper and salt are added there. Don't forget the salad.

The first layer to put on the tortillas is the meat, then the vegetables, then the cheese and some sour cream. All this is seasoned with cilantro and sent to the table.

Now you know how to cook tacos. The recipe, as you can see, is not difficult.

Have you noticed that it is by spring that you want to start eating right, replacing potato stew with meat with chicken breast with fresh vegetables? Or is it just my desire for lightness? 🙂 Anyway, today I will share a great tacos recipe with chicken and vegetable salad.

What is a tacos? This is a traditional Mexican dish. Typically, a taco (or tacos in the plural) consists of a thin tortilla flatbread, either corn or wheat, stuffed with a variety of vegetables, beans, and meats. And, of course, as is customary in Mexico, you can't do without hot sauce. We will prepare a more European version, familiar to our cuisine. I propose to make a dietary cake - from rye flour (you can take rice flour, oatmeal, chickpea or corn flour, if desired). The sauce will also be lightweight, based on yogurt. And a variety of delicious vegetables and herbs. And by the way, instead of chicken, you can put shrimp or fish in the tacos. You can't even imagine how delicious it is.

For 12 tacos:

For the tortilla (bread)

• 250 gr rye flour
• a pinch of salt
• 150 ml water
• 1 tbsp vegetable oil

For filling

• 200 g of chicken meat (you can fry the breast and cut it into pieces, but I took the leftover chicken meat after frying the whole carcass)
• 1 large ripe avocado
• ½ sour green apple
• 1 small fresh cucumber
• 1-2 radishes
• a handful of young spinach leaves (you can take lettuce leaves, arugula, etc.)
• 1-2 sprigs of dill
• ground black pepper
• salt to taste

For sauce

• 150 gr Greek yogurt
• 2 tsp sweet mustard
• 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
• 1 tbsp liquid honey

Cooking method:

1. I want to draw attention to the fact that for some, 12 tacos will be a lot. Therefore, you can simply wrap some of the cakes in cling film, they will lie quietly for 1-2 days, and in the freezer for up to a month. And make as many toppings as you can eat at a time. So, first you need to make tortillas. Everything is very simple here: pour flour, salt into a deep bowl, pour in water and add a spoonful of oil. Knead a smooth soft dough. If the dough sticks to your hands, then add a little more flour and continue to knead vigorously. The dough should be soft and smooth. Leave the finished dough to rest a little under a towel, then it will be easy to roll out.
2. After 15-20 minutes, divide the dough into 12 equal parts. Dust a work surface with flour and roll out each piece of dough into a thin round cake (about 3-4 mm thick). Heat up a non-stick pan, I used a grill pan to create an interesting pattern on the tortillas. When the pan is hot, fry the tortillas for a minute on each side.
   
3. An indicator of readiness will be not only a ruddy appearance, but also such swelling. The main thing - do not overdry the cakes, they should remain soft and plastic!
   
4. When all the cakes are ready, take care of the filling. Cut all the ingredients into approximately the same size, except for the spinach leaves and dill. Spinach can be left whole, because the leaves are small. And finely chop the dill. Place all ingredients in a bowl, season with salt and pepper if needed.
   
5. Prepare the sauce. Mix yogurt, balsamic, honey and mustard. Pour this sauce over the filling and mix. Spread the filling evenly over all the tortillas.
   
6. Gather the opposite edges of the tortillas (you can secure them with skewers or toothpicks to keep them together). Your tacos are ready, enjoy your meal!

Mexican cuisineis a real discovery for us. Many interesting and delicious tortilla dishes open up many new possibilities for us. In this article we will tell you about the next dish - tacos or tacos. It’s probably hard to call it a dish, because in the homeland a taco is considered a sandwich.

How to make tacos with your own hands?

In our article, we'll show you how to make taco dough and toppings. And so, the products that we required for the test:

Milk, 6 tablespoons;

Egg, 1 pc.;

Butter;

Paprika.

For the filling we will prepare:

Cabbage;

cheddar cheese;

Red pepper;

tomato paste;

Chicken bouillon.

This is such a long list, but it's worth it!

Let's start cooking!

1. We take our products for the dough and knead it. We mix everything in turn.

Waffles are ready! Let's start making the filling!

4. Add chicken broth, tomato paste, pepper and salt to the minced meat, you can also add seasonings. We start frying everything in a pan.

5. Stir constantly until all the liquid has evaporated. This is what will mean the readiness of minced meat.

6. We take ready-made waffles, put them in a leaf of cabbage.

7. We pour minced meat, the amount is determined by ourselves.

8. Spread sour cream on top of minced meat.

9. Onion cut into half rings and put after sour cream.

The simplest and most common Mexican snack is tacos. Taco (Spanish: taco) is a half-closed sandwich. A tortilla made from corn or wheat flour is a tortilla rolled into a tube or folded in half. Inside is a filling of meat, chicken, homemade sausage, fried peppers, onions, herbs, cheese and God knows what else.

Sauces and seasonings are added to the filling. It is believed that tacos are fast food. But, to be honest, the language does not turn to compare these amazing and delicious delicacies with fast food. With all the variety of kitchen masterpieces made according to the principle “the filling is wrapped in bread”, the most famous is shawarma.

Shaurma, shawarma, shawarma, shaorma, prtush, شاورما‎‎, שווארמה‎, çevirme, doner-kebab, donar, döner kebab - all this, despite the different name, very similar to each other in principle, but not always in content, dishes oriental cuisine. Pita or lavash stuffed with chopped fried meat (lamb, poultry, pork, veal), with the addition of spices, sauces and fresh vegetable salad. Even here, it is enough to walk along a busy street, and you can confidently and more than once stumble upon a shawarma tent. As a rule, shawarma is generously seasoned with ketchup and mayonnaise.

I am not a fan of this dish. But, I can say one thing: in the East, shawarma differs from ours, as the sky differs from the earth. Fillings wrapped in bread are popular all over the world. By and large, Italian pizza is stuffed bread. But the real inventors of such dishes are the Mexicans. Mexican burrito - wheat or corn tortilla (tortilla) with a variety of fillings. In the Mexican quarter of San Francisco, I tried a burrito with minced meat, beans, tomatoes and cheese. With sauces - from avocado and fiery.

Tacos are usually eaten on the go. Natural, freshly cooked with natural meat and natural vegetables and herbs. There is nothing superfluous and artificial. No sausage, unknown origin, no ketchup and mayonnaise, no processed cheese.

Making stuffed tacos is easy. It is important that the tortillas are prepared in advance, not necessarily from cornmeal. I must say that wheat tortillas are just as good, and much easier to make. It is also important that by the time the tacos are prepared, all the components of the filling are ready, laid out in separate bowls or plates.

Tacos. Step by step recipe

Ingredients (6-8 servings)

• Tortillas (wheat or corn) 6-8 pcs
• Beef 150 gr
• Sweet pepper 1 pc
• Hot pepper 2 pcs
• Onion 1 pc
• Tomato 1 pc
• cilantro, parsley 1 bunch
• Garlic 1 clove
• Lime 1 pc
• Olive oil 2 tbsp. l.
• Salt, coriander, sugar, dry aromatic herbs, chili taste

1. Tortillas are corn tortillas and are easy to make. You need good and high-quality finely ground cornmeal. If there are difficulties, it is quite possible to bake cakes from wheat flour, or mixtures, by frying them in a dry frying pan. Tortillas are baked quickly, it is important that they are fresh and bent.

   Tortillas made from a mixture of wheat and corn flour

2. The composition of the filling is arbitrary, but meat is desirable. And spiciness is still a traditional feature of Mexican cuisine. You will need fresh sweet pepper - red or green, a couple of hot pepper pods, an onion, a ripe tomato, lime and a bunch of greens. However, turn on your imagination, tasty additives are quite appropriate.

   Beef, vegetables and greens for the filling

3. Cut the onion into thin strips, add the juice of half a medium-sized lime, a pinch of salt and sugar, as well as a pinch of a dry mixture of aromatic herbs rubbed with your fingers. Put the onion in the refrigerator for half an hour to marinate. Then squeeze the onion from excess liquid.

   Marinate onions with spices in lime juice

4. Prepare fresh tomato sauce if homemade is not available. But, do not use ketchup from a bag. Tomato - very ripe, scald with boiling water, remove the skin and seeds. Finely chop the flesh with a knife. One hot pepper carefully to clear of seeds and white internal partitions. Chop the pepper very finely with a knife.

   Grind tomato pulp and hot pepper for sauce

5. In a frying pan, heat 1 tbsp. l. olive oil and fry a mixture of pepper and tomato on it, adding a pinch of salt, sugar and dry aromatic herbs. If the sauce is not hot enough, feel free to add dry chili powder. As a result, the sauce should be very thick, fragrant and spicy.

   Spicy tomato sauce for filling

6. Finely chop all the greens and mix with pickled onions. Add finely chopped garlic clove, then stir. Meat - preferably veal without fat and films. Grind the meat with a meat grinder, making minced meat. Peppers - sweet and hot, which is left, peel and chop with a knife, a little larger than the hot pepper for the sauce.

   Mix greens, pickled onions and garlic

7. In a frying pan, heat 1 tbsp. l. olive oil and fry the minced meat and chopped peppers on it. The fire under the pan should be above medium and the pan should not be covered with a lid. Meat and vegetables should be fried, not stewed.

   Fry minced meat and all peppers in olive oil

8. 5 minutes before the end of roasting, add a pinch of salt and ground coriander. The roasting time of meat with pepper is 15-20 minutes. It's enough. It is necessary that almost all the moisture from the minced meat has evaporated. Then the stuffing should cool to room temperature.

   

A dish prepared according to the principle of "bread with filling" is very popular and loved by many of us. The most popular is shawarma (shawarma, shawarma), kebab, prtush and so on. Pita or pita bread is taken and stuffed with fried minced meat, fresh vegetables, seasoning, sauces are added. Such "folk dishes" are in great demand, they are loved and always in demand in our country. The same can be said about other peoples and countries, although they have their own culinary laws and their favorite dishes.

Of course, each nation has its own culinary traditions that have developed over the years. And Mexico is no exception. For example, a favorite light lunch of Mexicans is taco envelopes - wheat cakes with a juicy filling inside, flavored with aromatic sauce. Thanks to our article, you will learn how to cook tacos at home. Our recipe with photos will help you in your culinary experiments!

What is a taco? History of the dish

Tacos are flatbreads made from wheat or corn flour, which fascinate with a filling consisting mainly of vegetables, meat, and seafood. All this is thickly poured with a certain sauce and served hot to the table. These "pockets" can be prepared independently, or you can buy in the store - there they are sold several pieces in a package. The very same word "taco" means "cork", "lump".

Topping is the main thing in tacos.

It may consist of:

• beef;
• pork;
• chicken;
• chorizo;
• beans;
• vegetables;
• pulp of a Mexican cactus;
• seafood.

Coriander, salsa, various cheeses, avocado puree with tomatoes are used as seasonings. Sauces are prepared on the basis of chili peppers and other vegetables. As a rule, this Mexican dish is eaten without cutlery. It is worth noting that tacos appeared long before the Europeans settled in Mexico. There is documented evidence that local Mexicans living near lakes and rivers have been eating fish tacos since ancient times.

What do you need to make tacos?

There are several variations of this dish. We decided to offer you a taco recipe that is considered a classic.

To make 4-5 cakes, you will need:

• finely ground cornmeal - 1 cup;
• wheat flour - 2 tbsp. l.;
• salt - 1/3 tsp;
• vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. l.;
• water - 2/3 cup.

And in order to prepare the filling, you will need to stock up on such products:

• minced meat (choose at your discretion) - 250 g;
• large tomato - 2 pieces;
• sweet red pepper - 1 pc.;
• tomato paste - 1 tbsp. l.;
• garlic - 2 teeth;
• onion - 1 head (for minced meat);
• lettuce leaves;
• parsley, green onions, olives, ground pepper.

Of course, you can adapt the set of products a little according to your tastes. For example, you can make a less spicy taco, although, of course, the original recipe involves using a fairly large amount of garlic and hot peppers. But if you are not used to such “burning” dishes, these products can be excluded, because food should, first of all, be enjoyed!

How to cook tacos?

The taco recipe is very simple.

Even a novice cook can cook this simple dish. To make tacos, follow these steps:

1. To begin with, we prepare "pockets". We combine wheat, corn flour, salt, stir, pour oil and water into the flour.
2. Then knead the dough, which should turn out plastic.
3. We roll 4-5 balls from our dough.
4. Then we take each ball and carefully roll it into a layer 2 mm thick.
5. Fry them in a dry frying pan until bubbles form (1-2 minutes).
6. Hot "pockets" need to be folded in half, fixed and set aside to cool the cake.
7. Now let's start preparing the meat sauce: fry the minced meat until half cooked, salt, add the tomato, simmer for 5 minutes.
8. Add sweet pepper, simmer another 5 minutes.
9. Add tomato paste, garlic, simmer for 5 minutes.
10. We collect tacos: put meat sauce in each tortilla, sprinkle greens on top, put lettuce leaves on top of the greens, and then tomato, olives.

Here is our taco and ready! It should be served hot as a main course.