Tex Mex
Carne Asada Fries
Carne Asada Fries is Tex Mex home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 2 lb frozen french fries
- 1.5 lb flank steak
- 2 cups shredded Monterey Jack
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1 cup guacamole
- 1 cup pico de gallo
- 2 limes
- 1 tbsp chili powder
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Bake the french fries according to the package until deeply golden and crisp.
- Rub the steak with the chili powder, cumin, and salt.
- Heat the olive oil in a skillet over high heat and sear the steak to medium, about 4 minutes per side, then rest and dice small.
- Spread the hot fries on a platter and scatter with the Monterey Jack, letting the heat melt it.
- Pile the diced steak over the cheesy fries.
- Finish with sour cream, guacamole, pico de gallo, and a squeeze of lime.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Carne Asada Fries carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Chicken Burrito Bowl |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Vegetables, Dairy, Meat or fish, and Fruit
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Carne Asada Fries takes about 50 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on beef, potato, and cheese.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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