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Street-style beef tacos

Tasty tacos with tender beef pieces

4

Serves

15 mins

Prep Time

8 mins

Cook Time

Kathy Paterson

Recipe author

Kathy Paterson

Tacos make for an easy to prepare lunch, dinner or even a snack for hungry teens. The fresh ingredients topped with juicy pieces of tender beef will make your mouth water just thinking about this recipe. Have a bit of fun with the salad ingredients you use to build the tacos - variety in texture and colour is key.

Tacos make for an easy to prepare lunch, dinner or even a snack for hungry teens. The fresh ingredients topped with juicy pieces of tender beef will make your mouth water just thinking about this recipe. Have a bit of fun with the salad ingredients you use to build the tacos - variety in texture and colour is key.

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Ingredients

Beef

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500g Quality Mark rump steaks

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Marinade

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2 Tbsp olive oil

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2 Tbsp lemon juice

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3 garlic cloves

crushed

Pico de gallo

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1 red chilli

deseeded and finely chopped

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2 tomatoes

diced

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1 red onion

finely chopped

To serve

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1 avocado

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juice of 1 lime

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2 Tbsp chopped fresh coriander

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2-3 cups shredded red cabbage

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4 tortillas

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warmed

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1 lime

cut into wedges

Method

To make beef

To make pico de gallo

To assemble

1

Place the rump steak in a non-metallic shallow dish.

2

Mix together the oil, lemon juice and garlic and rub over both sides of the rump steak.

3

Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes or up to 1 hour.

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4

Remove the rump steak from the refrigerator and bring to room temperature, about 20 minutes.

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5

Pat steak dry with kitchen paper.

6

Heat a large frying pan over a medium-high heat and pan-fry the steak for 3-4 minutes on each side for medium-rare.

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Remove from frying pan, season and leave to rest for 5 minutes before slicing across the grain.

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Nutrition Information per Serving (436g)

This nutrition analysis is based on 4 serves.

Energy

2232kJ (533 kcal)

Protein

32.1g

Total Fat

30.3g

Saturated Fat

6.5g

Carbs

28.8g

Dietary Fibre

8.3g

Sodium

363mg

Iron

4.5mg

Zinc

6.0mg

Vitamin B12

1.0µg