Mexican
Ground Beef Tacos
Ground Beef Tacos is Mexican 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
- 1 lb ground beef
- 12 corn tortillas or hard taco shells
- 2 tbsp chili powder
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 1 cup shredded cheddar
- 2 cups shredded lettuce
- 2 tomatoes
- 1/2 onion
- 1/2 cup salsa
- 1/2 cup sour cream
How to cook it
- Brown the ground beef in a skillet over medium-high heat, breaking it up, about 6 minutes, then drain the fat.
- Stir in the chili powder, cumin, paprika, and 1/3 cup water and simmer until thickened, about 3 minutes.
- Warm the corn tortillas or shells.
- Fill with the beef and top with cheddar, lettuce, tomato, onion, salsa, and sour cream.
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. Ground Beef Tacos 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 | Arroz con Pollo |
| 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
- Grains, Vegetables, Dairy, and Meat or fish
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Ground Beef Tacos takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. 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, tortilla, cheese, and tomato.
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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