Mexican tacos

Introduction:

Believe it or not, most Mexican dishes found in the U.S. are either 100% American, or Mexican-American, Tex.-Mex. adaptations. So here is a recipe for real Mexican tacos. This recipe is really simple and takes about 10 minutes to have dinner ready.

This recipe serves 2.

Ingredients:

• 6 corn tortillas
• Olive oil
• 3 tbs Black pepper
• 1/3 cup lime juice
• 1 lime
• 1 tbs Salt
• 1/2 cup chopped Cilantro (coriander)
• 1/2 cup chopped onion
• 1 tbs Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce
• Hot sauce of your taste
• 3/4 lb "Carne asada" beef, fajita beef strips, or any other thin cut of beef in strips

Pre-cooking:

• If necessary, cut the meat in small (byte size) strips
• Chop the onion and cilantro
• Cut the lime in small pieces
• Put the chopped onion and cilantro in a serving dish, along with the lime strips

Cooking:

• Set frying pan in mid-high heat
• Add 5 tbs olive oil to frying pan
• Add the meat
• Add the salt and black pepper, stirring
• Add the lime juice and Worcestershire sauce
• Stir the meat every minute for 5 minutes , allowing it to boil in its own juice as well as the oil and lime juice.
• Turn the heat to low and heat the tortillas

Serving and Eating tacos:

Serve the meat in a plate, next to hot tortillas. Each person takes a hot tortilla and adds meat to it, topping the meat with some chopped onion, cilantro, salsa and a few drops of lime juice.

Tips:

Heating tortillas on a microwave: To heat tortillas you can wrap them in a kitchen towel and put them inside a container. Microwave 15 seconds per tortilla.

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