Cheese and Dairy
Cheese is a popular topping for tacos, often mentioned as a must-have ingredient [1:1]. Sour cream also frequently appears in discussions as a creamy addition that enhances the taco experience
[2:1]
[4:3]. Crema salvadoreña, a type of sour cream, is suggested for its unique flavor
[5:2].
Salsas and Sauces
Salsa is essential for adding flavor and heat to tacos. Salsa verde and tomatillo salsa are particularly favored for their fresh taste [3:4]
[3:6]. Hot sauce, such as Cholula, is recommended for those who enjoy a spicy kick
[2:1]
[5:8].
Fresh Vegetables and Herbs
Cilantro, onions, and tomatoes are classic toppings that add freshness and crunch to tacos [3:1]
[3:5]. Lime juice is often used to brighten flavors and is considered a staple in authentic Mexican tacos
[3:2]
[3:6].
Beans and Guacamole
Beans, whether black or refried, provide a hearty and filling addition to tacos [1:6]
[1:7]. Guacamole is another popular choice, offering a creamy texture and rich avocado flavor
[1:8]
[2:4].
Spices and Seasonings
For beef tacos, spices like cumin, oregano, and adobo can elevate the dish [5:1]
[5:5]. Sauteed onions, jalapenos, and garlic are recommended for adding depth and complexity to the meat
[5:1].
Considerations Beyond the Discussions
While these toppings are popular, it's important to tailor your taco toppings to your personal taste preferences. Experimenting with different combinations can lead to discovering new favorites. Additionally, consider the type of taco (e.g., street tacos vs. hard shell) when selecting toppings, as some ingredients may complement certain styles better than others [4:1].
Cheese,cheese, and more cheese.
Edit: Salsa,queso,sour cream,guacamole,lime juice.
I agree but isn’t there more you should put on tacos
cilantro and lime
I didn’t even think of putting lime on tacos but apparently people do that
Beans and cheese
Beans are pretty good
Guacamole!
Coriander
Never heard of it
Edit: just looked it up sounds like it would be good
Pico de gallo, hot sauce, sour cream, lettuce, & cheese
It might be a rare sight, but I like jalapenos on mine! It compounds with the hotsauce! ��
Guacamole
Meat
Sour cream, and hot sauce.
authentic mexican tacos have raw onions, cilantro and lime, along with the meat and salsa roja and salsa verde, in a soft and warm tortilla, my favorites in an authentic taco
Tomatillo salsa ftw
Onion, cilantro, salsa verde, all you need preferably on tongue tacos!
Tomatoes, onions and cilantro
cilantro,salsa verde and lime
Onion, cilantro, lime juice, cheese and hot sauce.
Taco sauce/Hot sauce. I mean, you wouldn't eat buffalo wings without buffalo sauce would you?
A dollop of sour cream goes a long way toward making an amazing experience.
tomato
If u ve decided to take the plunge, might as well be a sprinkle of cyanide ( finely crushed for best effect)
Well what kind of tacos are we talking about? If it’s street tacos the only thing on them should be the tortilla, meat, cilantro, onion and hot sauce. If it’s the hard shell ones, then everything on the soft taco plus cream, cheese and cabbage at times.
I'm making beef tacos for dinner, but I feel like I haven't mastered them yet. What do you add to your beef tacos to make them taste amazing?
adobo, sazon, jamon, onion powder, maybe garlic but first 3 might have enough already. and then mexican style is always the way to go. also corn > flour . trust use crema salvadoreña & the green cholula sauce too
Jamon like diced ham? Or is this a seasoning?
seasoning!
cholula is the superior hot sauce
It’s not “hot”, so calling it a hot sauce is a stretch. But it is incredibly delicious and def my go to sauce.
This person tacos
So many types of beef taco, and you’re not even letting us know how you make them.
cilantro onion and corn tortillas.
I would add cumin too I know the adobo and sazon have some but I would want to make sure the cumin flavor was definitely present.
First off, stop doing white people tacos.
Saute some onions, jalapenos, and garlic in butter and add salt & pepper. Once the raw smell's cooked off and it's all softened, throw in the beef. Add in cumin, oregano or marjoram, fresh ground chiles preferably guajillo (a few arbols too if you want it spicy), a bit of beef bone broth, salt & pepper to taste, and then bring to a light boil and drop down temp to low and let simmer til the liquid evaporates (this softens the beef too).
Meanwhile, dice some tomato, red onion, serrano (you want like a 8:2:1 tomato : onion : pepper ratio), and cilantro, toss in a bowl and add a bit of fresh lime juice, salt & pepper; this is your pico. Make some avocado slices if you want and squeeze some fresh lime over them.
Briefly heat up some corn tortillas so they soften, and layer them so you have two tortillas per taco. Once the meat's done, place on tortilla, top with cojita or shredded asedero or oaxaca cheese depending on your preference, then avocado if you had any, pico, and salsa (either just hot sauce or homemade is fine, but homemade recipe I'll do another time). Eat, and enjoy.
It's basically kind of sort of picadillo, minus potatoes, and you absolutely can throw in some whole carrots and potatoes into the pot when you add in the broth and cook for 30 minutes and you'd be golden.
Bro said don’t make white people tacos then wrote out of the recipe for white people tacos
Picadillo isn't white people tacos, it's just made with ground beef.
I’ve never had a taco in my life, pretty hard to find but I really wanna try and cook some soon. There’s a lot of different recipes and I hope I’ll like tacos, so I wanna try out different toppings.
Pickled red onions are also delicious on tacos
Depends. Are we talking street tacos or ground beef hard shell tacos?
For the former, onions, cilantro and a salsa of your choosing.
For the latter, cheese, sour cream, lettuce, and hot sauce.
You all keep forgetting about avocado or guacamole. A must for any and all tacos.
Diced tomatoes for the hard shell tacos.
https://therecipecritic.com/the-best-homemade-taco-seasoning/
If you wanted to make the American style tacos like you might see in a Taco Bell commercial, the most usual way to make them is with a packet of "taco seasoning mix" that you buy at the grocery store and mix with ground beef as you're cooking it. This is a recipe for making it at home that looked okay.
one thing all these home made blends seem to have skipped out on is the cornstarch (might be called corn flour in your part of the world) The cornstarch might seem like the sort of pointless stretcher ingredient that gets added into processed food but it really does help the grease and moisture from the ground beef turn into sort of a sauce, so if you decide to use a recipe like this you might consider adding a tablespoon or so of cornstarch to the recipe.
If you add the cornstarch, you should also add a few tablespoons of water or broth when you add it to the ground beef.
It depends on the type of taco, but my ideal basic "street taco" would be something like:
small soft corn tortilla, carne asada (steak) or carnitas (pork), diced onion, cilantro, a squeeze of lime juice, and your preference of hot sauce. You'd usually serve 3 of these small 2-3 bite tacos per person.
You can make a lot more extravagant tacos, either hard shell (classic American style) or soft. Soft tacos can either be folded or rolled almost like a burrito.
If you do this, don't forget to put the tortillas on a hot pan for a few seconds on each side or it will fall apart.
I love al pastor or carne asada, we also do ground beef/turkey with seasoning, or chicken thighs. A lot of time chicken tacos are how we use up the last of a rotisserie chicken. Frontera has some really good taco seasoning for ground beef that's basically tomato, onion garlic, lime, a little oil, salt, paprika, and chili powder. I also like to top with guacamole
The best tacos I've made are pork shoulder we cook in a slow cooker. It also freezes really well.
I also recommend topping with some shredded cheese, but that's a personal preference
Diced raw white onion, cilantro, and red or green salsa.
I just mean there are two "classes" of tacos, and the appropriate toppings will depends on which class you're looking at making.
Lime goes on any taco - beef, pork, chicken, shrimp, fish.
Hot sauce and squeezed lime for more authentic ones. Verde or roja sauce if any is provided.
I just had squeezed lime on a taco for the first time last week. Total game changer. Limes are going to be a staple of my grocery list going forward just for taco nights
I usually use pre-packaged seasoning. I think I use the Taco Bell seasoning. It tastes fine, but I’m wondering what’s some good, like homemade seasoning or store-bought seasonings.
I use a combination of cumin, oregano, cilantro, garlic, onion, chili powder, salt and pepper, usually "fry" it all in some olive oil to bloom the flavors, then add it back to the meat and mix it in with a tiny bit of baking soda and lime juice. Then brown it all until I get some crispy bits. Try to use 85% lean or fattier.
Besides salt--cumin, chili powder, some paprika, some cayenne, and MSG. And the meat gets added after sauteeing an onion and some garlic.
i also add an 8oz can of goya tomato sauce to 1 lb. of meat
Bypass the shit ass Goya and get the el pato hot tomato sauce yellow can. I also sauté a finely faced jalapeño sometimes a habanero with the meat. Occasionally also add an 8oz can of hit “hatch” green chiles.
Use the hot tomato sauce in place of adding water for the spices.
My spice mix usually includes the above and garlic/onion powder (I usually don’t add straight raw onion/garlic…but sometimes do), black pepper, hot Mexican chili powder, coriander, Mexican oregano, smoked paprika, etc. just wanted to piggy back and rep el pato hot tomato sauce and say fuck Goya.
Mexican oregano pairs wonderfully with cumin!
I buy dried chilis from my local grocery and use them to make seasoning. Here's the outline:
Chili powder (for 1 pound of ground beef or other meat - turkey also works well):
4 Ancho chilis
4 Guajillo chilis (or just 2 for "extra mild")
Rip the stem out of all the dried chilis and then de-seed them. Tear the fruits into smaller pieces and then put them all into a spice grinder or small blender. Grind for 20-30 seconds to make chili powder.
To this chili powder add:
1 tablespoon cumin (if you can use whole cumin and grind along with the chilis it is even better!)
1/2-1 teaspoon salt (depending on your preference for saltiness)
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon onion powder, OR blend 1/2 yellow onion until liquified and add that directly to the meat
1/4 teaspoon MSG (yes, trust me)
Brown the meat and mince/mash it up into smallish pieces while cooking, and drain any excessive fat. If you use a 90/10 ground beef blend you shouldn't need to drain - 80/20 you'll definitely need to. If you used turkey or a very lean meat, you may need to add some fat - I'd use olive oil at that point but anything would work - lard, canola, etc (after browning, not during - you want the oil in the next part). Once the meat is browned and you have a little bit of fat in the skillet but not enough that it's pooling, add the blended chili powder on top, then add 1-2 cups of warm water (use warm or hot water so you don't thermally shock your skillet and deform it). Mix well, ensuring all the chili powder is mixed in and distributed. Cover and simmer on low for twenty minutes or until most of the water is gone. You don't really need or want tomato in this.
It will be divine. Using actual chilis and grinding them everytime is a gamechanger, very low effort (~5 minutes), and now my daughter begs me for taco night.
Toast the peppers and cumin before grinding as well for a great flavor!
Alternatively you can rehydrate the dried peppers and make a sauce instead of a powder. It's more work, but I make a large batch and use it as a base in a lot of recipes.
Toast the peppers in a dry pot until fragrant, then just barely cover with water, cover the pot, and simmer until they are soft. I then put all that in a blender.
To the pot now goes oil, butter, sliced onion, chopped fresh garlic, cumin, oregano, hatch chilis, and s&p. Cook until onions are soft then add all that to the blender.
Blend until smooth. It's basically "chili stock".
Yes, and if you make your own seasoning, add the smallest dash of cinnamon as well. Careful, though, too much and it's overpowered.
Penzeys has a really good taco seasoning
Any neutral flavor oil works.
Whatever seasoning you use, make sure you use beef broth instead of water.
I used an avocado salsa recipe that I saw online, which turned out SO creamy and delicious:
1 Avocado 50g greek yogurt 3 jalapeños (or less if you can’t handle the heat;) handful coriander 2 cloves of garlic 1/2 onion 1tsp oil
Step 1: Char the jalapeños, onions and garlic with oil until the wonderful aromas start to leak. Step 2: Add the charred veggies in a blender and add avocado, yogurt and water to your preferred consistency. For reference I used around 100ml. Step 3: Enjoy!!
The rest of the toppings include marinated chicken breast, stir fried bell peppers and bean sprouts (not authentic, I know😔) and my own pickled onions! I went to the market today to get corn tortillas from a Mexican vendor and they were soo good☺️
For the FIRST TIME and you do THIS? Bruh these look bussin. And I’m from NM so I know my tacos. Great job!
Right??! This is what I was going to say!! (I’m not from NM, though…I just like tacos 🤣)
Tacos are a rightfully universally beloved dish
Haha lording love to you amigo💞I promise, the pickled onions and salsa verde did 90% of the work
They always do but for good reason
They look really fresh and tasty, well done!
Thanks so much!
you gave the recipes, much happy ty!
These look so delicious!
Thank you:)
Either cheese or habanero sauce
sour cream
Cheese
Cilantro, onions, hot sauce. Preferably Verde.
best toppings for tacos
Here are some popular and delicious taco toppings to consider:
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Fresh Vegetables:
Cheese:
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Recommendation: For a well-rounded taco, try a combination of grilled chicken, fresh pico de gallo, shredded lettuce, crumbled Cotija cheese, and a drizzle of guacamole. This mix offers a balance of flavors and textures that will elevate your taco experience!
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