The national dish of amazing Mexican culture is tacos. It is prepared in every Mexican home. I suggest we also try something new and get to know more about Latin American cuisine.
Recipe content:
- Secrets of making Mexican tacos at home
- How to make minced wheat flour tacos
- How to make tacos: a classic recipe
- How to make chicken tacos
- Video recipes
The traditions of Mexican cuisine are carefully preserved by modern Mexicans. It originated quite a long time ago, when Europeans landed on the territories of the great Mayans and Aztecs. Today, the national cuisine is closely related to the traditions of this ancient people. It is believed that the Aztec cuisine became the real progenitor of Mexican cuisine. Thanks to non-standard flavors, it quickly spread throughout the world. We will devote this review to a Mexican dish - tacos. Surprise your family with this one-of-a-kind contemporary cuisine they've probably never tasted.
Secrets of making Mexican tacos at home
It is more correct to call this dish "taco", and at the end of the "C" it speaks of the plural. To understand how to properly prepare this dish, you need to get acquainted with the peculiarities of Mexican cuisine. National flavor can be traced in every Mexican dish. And the staple food in every Mexican family is corn. The variety of its varieties is off scale. Corn kernels are white, orange, yellow, purple and black, oblong or narrow. They bake tortillas, incl. and cornmeal tacos.
Traditionally, tacos are made by hand. This is a very difficult and time-consuming process that requires skills and time. The dish is a flat cake that is rolled up just before use. They eat it exclusively with their hands, but a foreigner can be offered cutlery. Various fillings are laid out in tacos: cheese, asparagus, vegetables, tofu, salmon, beef, tuna, pineapple, pork, bell peppers, beans, chorizo, chicken, shrimp, avocado, corn, seafood, etc. Supporters of exotic dishes, the cake is stuffed with special species of grasshoppers, caterpillars and ant larvae.
How to make minced wheat flour tacos
Despite the fact that traditional tacos is made from corn flour, in our modern cooking the dish has been adapted to European tastes. And many chefs bake tacos from wheat flour.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 226 kcal.
- Servings - 6
- Cooking time - 1 hour
Ingredients:
- Flour - 1 tbsp.
- Grated cheddar cheese - 0.25 tbsp
- Salt - 0.5 tsp
- Processed pork fat - 1 tsp
- Vegetable oil - 1 tsp
- Ground coriander - 0.5 tsp
- Canned Red Beans - 200 g
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Lettuce - 0.25 head of cabbage
- Tomato paste - 1 tsp
- Ground beef - 150 g
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Tomato - 1 pc.
Step by step preparation of wheat flour tacos with minced meat:
- Sift the flour and salt through a fine sieve. Add fat and rub.
- Stir 0.25 tbsp. warm water and knead to a smooth, soft dough. Form a ball, cover with a damp hot cloth and let sit for 10 minutes.
- Divide the ball into 6 parts and roll each into a round thin cake.
- Heat a clean, dry skillet and fry the tortillas for 30 seconds on each side.
- Fold the finished cakes on top of each other, wrap in foil and set aside.
- Peel the onion, finely chop and fry in vegetable oil for 3 minutes.
- Add minced meat to the pan, mash it with a fork and cook until all the liquid has evaporated.
- Finally add the tomato paste, coriander, canned beans, salt and simmer for another 4 minutes.
- Peel and grate the carrots.
- Wash the tomatoes and cut them into thin slices.
- Wash lettuce and chop finely.
- Put the cakes on a baking sheet, slightly bending in half. Send them to bake in a preheated oven to 180 ° C for 5 minutes.
- Put the beans, minced meat in the tortillas, sprinkle with cheese shavings and lay out the carrots.
- Place the tomato and lettuce on top.
- Serve the tacos hot.
How to make tacos: a classic recipe
Indulge in the mouth-watering and delicious Mexican cuisine. With a little work and effort, you will get the perfect result - corn tacos with meat and vegetables.
Ingredients:
- Finely ground corn flour - 1 tbsp.
- Vegetable oil - 1 tablespoon
- Wheat flour - 2 tablespoons
- Water - 2/3 tbsp.
- Salt - a pinch
- Ground beef - 250 g
- Tomatoes - 2 pcs.
- Red sweet bell pepper - 1 pc.
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Tomato paste - 1 tablespoon
- Garlic - 2-3 cloves
- Greens (lettuce, dill, parsley, onion feathers) - bunch
- Seasoning "Facita Mix" or "Burrito Mix" - 1 tsp.
Step by step preparation of tacos according to the classic recipe:
- Stir wheat and corn flour in a bowl. Add salt, oil, water and stir.
- Use your hands to replace the elastic dough and roll into 5 balls. Roll each into a 2mm round cake.
- Fry the cakes in a dry skillet on each side for 2 minutes until small bubbles appear.
- Bend the finished cakes slightly in half, because after cooling, they will dry out slightly.
- For the meat sauce, place the minced meat in a skillet and brown it lightly.
- Add chopped onions, salt and fry until half cooked.
- Add chopped tomatoes to the semi-prepared minced meat and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Then add the diced bell peppers and continue to fry for 5 minutes.
- Add chopped garlic, seasoning and tomato paste. Stir and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Place hot meat sauce on the tortillas. Sprinkle with chopped herbs, lettuce and serve hot on top.
How to make chicken tacos
Homemade chicken tacos is time consuming, but worth it. The sandwich, as it is called in its homeland, will appeal to all eaters.
Ingredients:
- Milk - 6 tablespoons
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Wheat flour - 150 g
- Corn flour - 100 g
- Butter - 1 tablespoon
- Salt - a pinch
- Curry - pinch
- Ground sweet paprika - a pinch
- Chicken mince - 300 g
- Sour cream - 2 tablespoons
- Ketchup - 2 tablespoons
- Green onions - the ass of the feathers
- Cabbage leaves - 2 pcs.
- Chadder cheese - 100 g
- Chicken broth - 50 ml
- Tomato paste - 1 tablespoon
How to prepare chicken tacos step by step:
- Combine milk, eggs, two types of flour, butter and a pinch of salt. Knead an elastic dough and divide it into two parts, each shape into a ball.
- Roll out the dough to form a round tortilla.
- Heat a dry frying pan and fry the cakes on both sides for 1.5 minutes.
- Bend the finished tortillas immediately into a shell while they are warm.
- Add chicken broth, tomato paste, pepper, salt to the minced chicken.
- Fry everything in a skillet, stirring occasionally, until all the liquid has evaporated.
- Put the cabbage leaf into the prepared waffles and add the minced meat.
- Top with sour cream and sprinkle with chopped green onions.
- Pour ketchup over everything and sprinkle with grated cheese.
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