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The Best Ground Beef Tacos Recipe
These ground beef tacos are the easiest and the best taco recipe you can find. Crunchy taco shells loaded with delicious and juicy meat mixture, topped with avocado, lettuce and cheddar cheese. Quick and easy midweek family dinner that everyone loves and you even can make it with your kids.
The Best Ground Beef Tacos Recipe
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Prep Time 20 minutes mins
WORK TIME 20 minutes mins
DIFFICULTY Easy
Cuisine Mexican
Servings 12 yields
Ingredients
For the meat mixture:
- 2 tablespoons Oil
- 1 pound 450g Ground beef
- 1 Onion chopped
- 1 Bell pepper diced
- 3 Garlic cloves crushed
- 1 can 400g Crashed tomatoes
- Salt to taste
- Pepper to taste
- 1 teaspoon Paprika
- 1 teaspoon Cumin
- 1 teaspoon Oregano
- 1 teaspoon Red chili flaks optional
For serving:
- 12 Taco shells/Corn tortillas
- Cheddar cheese
- 1 Avocado diced
- 4-5 Lettuce leaves thinly sliced
- Cilantro
- ½ Red onion chopped
Instructions
- DIRECTIONS
- Make the meat mixture: in a large pan, heat 2 tablespoons of oil over medium heat. add chopped onion and sauté for 4-5 minutes. Add crushed garlic and sauté for 1 minute. Add diced pepper and cook for 4-5 minutes.
- Add ground beef and cook, breaking it apart until no longer pink, about 6-7 minutes. Season with salt, pepper, paprika, oregano, cumin and red chili flakes. Stir well. Add crushed tomatoes and cook for 5 minutes over medium heat.
- Prepare the toppings: thinly slice the lettuce, in a small bowl mash the avocado with a teaspoon of lemon juice and pinch of salt, chop red onion and prepare the cheddar cheese.
- Assembly: Heat taco shells as directed on package. Fill taco shells with 2-3 tablespoons of meat mixture, top with avocado, red onion, lettuce and cheese.
- Serve immediately.
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