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Tacos Al Carbon

Tacos Al Carbon are an easy and delicious grilled steak taco that will be your new favorite dinner. With delicious red chile tortillas, and fresh toppings, you will want seconds and thirds.
Course Main Course
Cuisine American, Mexican
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 15 minutes
Servings 12 tacos
Calories 157kcal
Author Lisa

Ingredients

  • 1 ½ lbs Thin steak like skirt steak
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • 12 Fresh Red Corn Tortillas from the Fresh Chile Co.
  • ¼ cup Cilantro chopped
  • ½ White Onion chopped
  • 3 Jalapenos diced
  • Limes
  • 1-2 tbs Oil for frying tortillas
  • Salsa of choice*

Instructions

  • Preheat grill.*
  • Sprinkle both sides of steak with salt and pepper. Place on grill and cook for 2 minutes, then flip and cook for 2-4 more minutes, until done.
    grilling steak on bbq
  • While meat is cooking, chop onion and cilantro, and cut limes into wedges.
  • Remove cooked streak from grill and slice into small pieces.
    cutting steak into small pieces
  • Heat 2 tsps oil in a small fry pan, once hot add a Fresh Red Tortilla. Fry* for 20-30 seconds, flip and repeat, then remove from fry pan. Repeat with remaining tortillas, adding 1-2 more teaspoons of oil when needed.
    frying a tortilla in a frying pan
  • Assemble tacos with meat, cilantro, onion, jalapenos and your favorite salsa.
    tacos al carbon on white platter

Video

Notes

Tips and Tricks
  • Traditional tacos al carbon are made over charcoal, but cooked on a gas grill worked great too.
  • I recommend Fresh Chile Papa’s Red Salsa, or a good tomatillo salsa.
  • I like these tacos with a softer shell, that is lightly browned and warm from frying, but if you want a crisper shell fry the tortilla until crisp.

Nutrition

Calories: 157kcal | Carbohydrates: 12g | Protein: 14g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 36mg | Sodium: 50mg | Potassium: 231mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 65IU | Vitamin C: 5mg | Calcium: 26mg | Iron: 1mg