Tex Mex

Carne Guisada

Name: Carne Guisada
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Tex Mex
Ingredients: 2.5 lb beef chuck, cut into cubes; 3 tbsp all-purpose flour; 2 tbsp cooking oil; 1 onion, chopped; 1/2 green bell pepper, chopped; 3 garlic cloves; 1 tsp ground cumin; 1 tbsp chili powder; 2.5 cups beef broth; 14.5 oz can diced tomatoes; 1 tsp salt; 1/2 tsp black pepper; 8 flour tortillas

Marisol @marisol_elpaso

Carne Guisada is Tex Mex 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.

105 min Medium Halal Dairy free

Watch how to cook Carne Guisada

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Serve it with

A Tex Mex dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Carne Guisada, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The protein alongside
- Black Beans with Cumin and Lime
  
  15 min
What it is eaten with
- Refried Beans
  
  25 min
The sharp little thing
- Guacamole Casero
  
  15 min

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 Guisada carries gluten. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Carne Guisada
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	Yes	Beef and Bean Tostadas
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: 620 kcal
Protein: 41 g
Carbs: 30 g
Fat: 37 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 4 g
Sodium: 780 mg
Saturated fat: 13 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Carne Guisada takes about 105 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. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.