Smoky Chipotle Beef Tacos with Lime Slaw
35 min · Medium
#comfort#grill#mexican#weeknight
Taco night, leveled up. Smoky chipotle-spiced beef tucked into warm corn tortillas, piled with a crunchy lime-dressed slaw and a cooling drizzle of sour cream. Loud, messy, and guaranteed to disappear faster than you can fold them.
Ingredientsfor 4 portions
- 500 g Ground Beef, Raw
- 8 tortilla Corn Tortillas, warmed
- 1.7 pepper Chipotle Peppers, finely chopped
- 3 tsp Cumin
- 0.9 medium Yellow Onion, diced
- 2.3 cup Green Cabbage, shredded
- 2 Lime, juiced
- 5.3 tbsp Sour Cream
- 1.3 cup Cilantro
Steps
- Toss the shredded cabbage with the juice of one lime and a pinch of salt and set aside to soften into a quick slaw.
- Brown the diced onion in a dry hot pan, then add the beef and cook, breaking it up, for 6–8 minutes until deeply caramelized.
- Stir in the chopped chipotle and cumin and cook 2 minutes more until smoky and fragrant; season to taste.
- Warm the corn tortillas in a dry pan until pliable and lightly charred at the edges.
- Pile the beef into the tortillas, top with lime slaw, a drizzle of sour cream, fresh cilantro and an extra squeeze of lime.
