Beef Taquitos
These sound really good, I have not had taquitos in 30 years. On my to make list for sure. Links to the shortcuts are listed in the Recipe Notes section.
Ingredients
- 350 grams ground beef, (3/4 lb)
- 1/4 cup onion, diced
- 1 clove garlic, smashed and finely minced
- 1/2 cup tomato sauce, OR make from a shortcut
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin
- 1/2 cup green chilies, canned or fresh roasted
- cooking oil, for frying
- 12 small corn tortillas
To Serve, as desired
- salsa, OR make from a shortcut
- sour cream, OR make from a shortcut
- guacamole
Instructions
- In a large non stick pan, cook the ground beef and break up with a spatula as you cook, when no longer pink, drain the fat then add the onion and garlic and cook until the onion is soft.
- Add the cumin, chilies, and tomato sauce to the pan and mix in, simmer on low heat for 5 minutes, stirring often. Remove from heat and set aside.
- In a large, flat pan, cast iron would be perfect, heat a little oil and warm each tortilla for a minute or two on each side, this makes them very soft so you can roll them.
- Lay a tortilla on your work surface and add some beef filling at about the point mid way between the edge and the center, make a line of filling across the tortilla.
- Roll the tortilla tightly, goal is a nice cigar sized taquito. Repeat this for each tortilla.
- Heat about 1/3 inch of oil in pan, when the oil is hot, quickly fry the taquitos to brown them, light golden color is the goal, about 1 minute each.
- Serve with dipping sauces as you desire, salsa, sour cream, and guacamole would be great choices.
Notes
Low cost.
Shortcuts: Tomato Sauce, Salsa, Sour Cream.
Provided courtesy of good friend, Jerry Juliana.
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United States.
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