This is a great way to encourage the kids to eat salad vegies! For those people avoiding dairy, try the dairy free sour cream, it's really easy and very yummy. You can use a variety of minced meat for this recipe: beef, pork, turkey or chicken. For a quick idea, buy a cooked chook and pull the meat apart into small pieces, use it in place of the taco meat. If you have a lot of cooked meat left over, freeze it and use it for a quick taco meal another night.
Taco Meat (feeds 4-6)
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 onion diced
1 kilogram minced meat of your choice
2 cloves garlic crushed
3 teaspoons ground cumin
2 teaspoons oregano
2 teaspoons mild paprika
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper (or more if you like hot and spicy!)
2 teaspoons sugar
2 cups water
2 heaped tablespoons pure corn flour (check the ingredients on the packet, some corn flours contain wheat, and some may contain traces of nuts and egg, if you can't find a safe corn flour you can use arrowroot instead)
Heat olive oil in a large frypan on the stove.
Gently cook the onion until it starts to become translucent.
Add the meat and stir to break up the mince as it cooks.
Once the meat is browned, add the garlic, cumin, oregano, paprika, salt, cayenne pepper, and sugar. Stir until combined.
Pour in 1 & 3/4 cups of the water and let it come to a simmer.
Mix the corn flour with the remaining 1/4 cup of water until it is a paste.
Slowly add the cornflour paste to the meat mix while it is simmering. This will thicken the juices.
Taste your taco meat (careful, it will be hot!) and add more spices if you like.
It is now ready to serve, you can put a lid on it to keep it warm while you prepare the salad ingredients and taco shells.
Salad ingredients (feeds 4-6)
1 medium carrot, peeled and grated
1 avocado chopped
2 small tomatoes (or several cherry tomatoes) diced
several washed lettuce leaves chopped, or you can use baby spinach (no need to chop)
1 jar salsa (check ingredients if you need gluten free, some salsas contain wheat)
Prepare the ingredients and place into individual bowls ready to serve.
Dairy Free Sour Cream
1/2 a 227g tub of Tofutti (find this in Coles and Woolworths/Safeway in the fridge near cream cheese products)
3 tablespoons Kingland Soy Mayonnaise (find this in Coles in the fridge near Soy Yoghurt products)
Place Tofutti in a bowl and stir for about 30 seconds to soften.
Add the mayonnaise and stir until combined.
Serve on top of tacos.
Taco Shells
We
go through about 17 jumbo taco shells for our family of 4 for this
meal. Check the ingredients for gluten free, the Old El Paso brand is a
good one. If you are making your own taco meat you will only need to
buy the shells not a whole taco kit. Prepare the shells per the packet
instructions. It's best to do it last so they don't burn.
Finally, put the taco meat, shells, salad ingredients, and sour cream onto the table and let the family create their own tacos. Lots of fun!
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| Tofutti Find it in Coles and Woolworths/Safeway near cream cheeses |
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| Kingland Soy Mayonnaise | Find it in Coles near Soy yoghurt products |
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