Tex Mex
Carne Asada Fries
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Bake the french fries according to the package until deeply golden and crisp.
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Rub the steak with the chili powder, cumin, and salt.
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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.
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Spread the hot fries on a platter and scatter with the Monterey Jack, letting the heat melt it.
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Pile the diced steak over the cheesy fries.
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Finish with sour cream, guacamole, pico de gallo, and a squeeze of lime.
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Serve it with
A Tex Mex dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Carne Asada Fries, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The protein alongside
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
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 | Carne Guisada |
| 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
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 870 kcal
- Protein
- 49 g
- Carbs
- 46 g
- Fat
- 54 g
- Fiber
- 6 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 850 mg
- Saturated fat
- 16 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
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.
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