Carne asada lettuce tacos with avocado crema
The dried-chile marinade here is deeper and less citrus-forward than the grilled version, because the meat is chopped fine and needs to carry the seasoning all the way through.
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Ingredients
For the whole dish · serves 4
- Skirt steak1 lb
- Avocado5½ oz
- Sour cream3 oz
- Olive oil4 tsp
- Butter lettuce leavesthree per person
- Guajillo chilestwo, soaked and blended
- Limetwo, halved
- Fresh cilantroa large bunch
- Sea saltto taste
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+5g net · 82 kcal · 10 min · together 9g net, 427 kcal
Method
6 steps · 150 minutes
- Toast the dried chiles in a dry pan for 30 seconds a side until they smell sweet, then soak them in hot water for 20 minutes.
- Blend them with garlic, salt and a little of the soaking water. This paste is a different thing from the citrus marinade on the grilled version.
- Marinate two hours, blot the meat dry, and cook it hard and fast for 2 minutes a side.
- Chop it fine on the board rather than slicing it, working across the grain, and toss the pieces through the juices left behind.
- Blend the avocado with the sour cream and lime into a loose crema. Mashed rather than blended, it stays lumpy and will not spoon.
- Use butter lettuce rather than iceberg. It folds instead of cracking, which is the only thing a tortilla was doing better.
Macros are per serving and are estimates worked out from the ingredients. Keto Tracker AI is a food logging tool and does not give medical advice; talk to a doctor before changing your diet.
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