Mexican
Carne Asada Tacos
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Carne Asada Tacos is Mexican home cooking, eaten at lunch and 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
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Whisk the orange juice, lime juice, minced garlic, cumin, chili powder, olive oil, and salt into a marinade.
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Add the flank steak, turn to coat, and let it marinate at room temperature for 30 minutes.
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Heat a grill or grill pan over high heat and cook the steak until well charred and medium, about 5 minutes per side.
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Rest the steak for 5 minutes, then slice thinly against the grain and chop into bite-size pieces.
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Warm the corn tortillas on the grill until soft and pliable, about 30 seconds per side.
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Fill the tortillas with steak and top with finely diced onion and plenty of cilantro, serving lime wedges alongside.
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Serve it with
A Mexican dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Carne Asada Tacos, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The protein alongside
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Carne Asada Tacos carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| 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
- 500 kcal
- Protein
- 41 g
- Carbs
- 33 g
- Fat
- 23 g
- Fiber
- 4 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 620 mg
- Saturated fat
- 8 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Carne Asada Tacos takes about 55 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in summer, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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