Sunday, March 22, 2009

Fresno Tacos





This is one of our favorites and one of the only recipes where my kids will eat cooked cabbage.

1 lb. ground beef
6 cloves of garlic (more or less to taste)
1 can (15 oz.) diced new potatoes (drained)
2-3 C. cabbage (sliced to preference)
white corn tortillas
grated cheese
cooking oil

Brown the ground beef and garlic together until brown. Then add the diced new potatoes and cabbage to ground beef and toss together. Cover and simmer on medium low for about 15 minutes or until the cabbage is cooked to your preference. While the ground beef is simmering, heat the oil and fry the corn tortillas to where they are slightly stiff but still bendable. Serve with cheese.

*This recipe calls for a lot of garlic. You can choose how much you like. I usually add more. You can add more cabbage to bulk up the meal. I drain my tortillas on paper towels before serving. For less fat don't fry the tortillas but warm them in a moist paper towel in the microwave. Mark and I are big Cholula hot sauce fans and I think it tastes really good on it. The photos show 1 1/2 lbs. of ground beef.

5 comments:

  1. They sure know how to make a potato taco in Fresno! These were y u m m y!

    My only advice is to not be scared of the garlic. I chickened out at 4 cloves...and I couldn't even taste garlic. We ended up salting the tacos quite a bit which probably wouldn't have been necessary if I'd just used the garlic like I was supposed to.

    Thanks Julie!

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  2. These look so good. I even have some cabbage in my fridge right now. Looks like I know what I am having for dinner!

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  3. So I made this tonight, and we didn't have any garlic. So we used our homemade taco seasoning instead. I didn't have a can of potatoes either, we just cubed up 2 potatoes and boiled them for a bit. They turned out yummy. We added onions to the ground beef too. Bryan always tells me the more veggies the better!

    Thanks for the good recipe!

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  4. I have a chimichanga recipe that is very similar to this. I will have to share it sometime, and try this one.

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  5. I made these a couple of nights ago. They were so good. I also added onions and I added a can of green chilis.

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