Mexican Street Tacos
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Easy, quick, authentic carne asada street tacos you can now make right at home! Top with onion, cilantro + fresh lime juice! SO GOOD!
You truly begin to miss things once they are gone. That’s not just a saying. It’s real life.
See, I lived a block away from a famous taco truck back in LA. And as much as I love street tacos, I only went there maybe four times a year.
And now that I’ve moved to Chicago, all I think about is the proximity of that taco truck back home in Los Angeles. If that taco truck were here in Chiberia, I would go four times a day!
But until I get back to LA, here is my rendition of my favorite street tacos that I miss so dearly.
It’s a quick recipe using a simple marinade for your skirt steak. It just needs 1 hour of marinating before you throw it onto a skillet. From there, you can top off your tacos with diced onion, cilantro and fresh lime juice.
It’s simple, it’s easy and it’s just perfect. That is, until you can get back to Los Angeles!
Mexican Street Tacos
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons reduced sodium soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice
- 2 tablespoons canola oil, divided
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 teaspoons chili powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 ½ pounds skirt steak, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
- 12 mini flour tortillas, warmed
- ¾ cup diced red onion
- ½ cup chopped fresh cilantro leaves
- 1 lime, cut into wedges
Equipment
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, combine soy sauce, lime juice, 1 tablespoon canola oil, garlic, chili powder, cumin and oregano.
- In a gallon size Ziploc bag or large bowl, combine soy sauce mixture and steak; marinate for at least 1 hour up to 4 hours, turning the bag occasionally.
- Heat remaining 1 tablespoon canola oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Add steak and marinade, and cook, stirring often, until steak has browned and marinade has reduced, about 5-6 minutes, or until desired doneness.
- Serve steak in tortillas, topped with onion, cilantro and lime.
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I don’t have any chili powder, is their any other substitute?
Anne, not really. Chile powder has a very distinctive taste. The only substitute would be if you have taco seasoning, but that will have added salt so you’d want to lessen the amount of soy sauce.
I liked this marinade. Good basic bones. I also noticed the watery consistency so I added about a tbsp ( maybe less) of corn starch to thicken it, worked like a charm. I also enjoy Cumin so I upped it about 1/2 tsp. Use Hot Mexican Chili Powder. Next time I think I’ll add a dash of cinnamon for depth. Thanks!
The cornstarch is a good idea…I think I’ll add it to the marinade to help tenderize, too.
You can make your own chili powder with all the other things your probably do have. Just look it up online
Absolutely delicious! This will replace my go-to taco recipe!
I use a dried hatch chili powder in all my texmex cooking.
My go to Carne Asada recipe. Super easy and very flavorful.
This was delicious! I made it last weekend (less than a week ago) and I’m making it again tonight! Thank you so much for this recipe. The only change I made was that we topped these off with a little Queso Fresco cheese. This will be a regular part of our weekly meal plan.
This is my families go to recipe!
It’s so easy and delicious, I’m not ashamed to say we make this at least once a week.
Very good and flavorful! Goes great with chicken as well. Only thing is I would add extra salt. I used regular soy sauce and it could’ve used a bit extra.
Made these for my family and everyone loved it! Super easy, steak was extra tender and flavorful. Can’t wait to make it again! Thank you!
This recipe has become a staple in our household. We make it almost weekly. Love it!
I use ground beef instead and it turned out great. My family loved it ! Must try!
This is an amazing recipe. It is easy and incredibly delicious. I made this 3 times so far (just for myself for dinner and the tacos didn’t even touch a plate bc I ate all of it standing up in the kitchen)
I add some salsa verde and avocado to my taco and it’s perfect. I will be using this recipe to trick my quarantine bf into thinking that I am a keeper. Thanks
I had some leftover steak and was in the mood for tacos. Fortunately I stumbled across this recipe and was thoroughly impressed. My wife and I both gobbled up multiple tacos and will save this recipe for future dinners.
Easy recipe to make and it tastes really good.
Got tired of normal ground beef tacos, there’s no going back now
I typically don’t eat skirt steak because it is more difficult to chew… but this was AMAZING! The meat was perfectly seasoned and super tender. My boyfriend ate it like candy! Definitely would recommend this recipe!!!
I cannot tell you how great these were. Doubled the recipe and used both steak and chicken. Nothing left. One of the females in the group had 7. Everybody had at least 4, and we served with rice, beans, and watermelon. Thank you.
I have not made this but have eaten a lot of great street tacos. This recipe will work and I will be making it soon.
Thank you!
I have to try this recipe, but I can tell by the ingredients and reviews it must be AMAZING! I’ll definitely make these for my dad’s 66th birthday in a couple of weeks! Thanks!
We made these last night for our son’s 17th birthday and Oh…my…goodness….it was DELICIOUS!!!! We did buy the meat from a great butcher and the quality was very good so that might be something to consider. I marinated the meat for 5 hours, brought it to almost room temp before frying in a cast iron pan briefly. I can’t wait to make this again! YUM! Thank you for this keeper recipe!
YUM!
Thanks for your nice recipe. Its really awesome.
I am in my 50’s and don’t leave reviews. I have been searching for the perfect steak taco. Never thought I would find it but this is it. My initial thought was the soy sauce would over power but it didn’t. If you love Mexican food try these tacos you won’t be disappointed.
This recipe is the bomb I like to add brown sugar to this recipe and instead use AVOCADO OIL. I only wish i knew how you got your Taco shells to look like that, thanks enjoyed it
If you have a gas range, you can toss your tortillas on there for a few seconds to char them, that’s how you get those crispy edges 🙂