Tacos

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Serves: 2 Preparation time: 1 hour

Cooking time: 10 mins

 

Ingredients:

For salad
Cabbage – ½ cup (shredded)
Carrot – ½ cup (grated)
Salt – to taste
Pepper – ½ tsp
Oil – 1 tbsp

For sauce
Tomato ketchup – 1 tbsp
Red chilli sauce – 1 tbsp
Green chilli sauce – 1 tbsp

For sour cream
Cream – ½ cup
Curd – 2 tbsp
Red chilli flakes – 1 tsp
Coriander leaves – 1 tbsp
Salt – to taste

For taco shells
Tortilla – 4 (Check recipe here)
Oil spray

For stuffing
Corn kernels – ½ cup (boiled)
Black beans/rajma – ½ cup (boiled)
Salt – to taste
Coriander leaves – ¼ cup
Onion – ¼ cup (finely chopped)
Oil – 1 tbsp
Water – ¼ cup

Procedure:

To prepare salad

  1. Heat a pan with oil and stir fry the cabbage for about 2 mins. Do not cook it completely, it should have its crunch.
  2. Remove from heat and add the carrot, salt and pepper. Keep aside.

To prepare sauce

  1. Mix the ketchup, red chilli sauce and green chilli sauce. Place aside.

To prepare sour cream

  1. Beat the cream well and add the curd to it. I combined both and blended them. This gave a very nice thick creamy mix.
  2. Then add the salt, chilli flakes and coriander.
  3. If the sourness is not enough, you may add some lemon juice.

To prepare taco shells

  1. Pre-heat oven to 200° C.
  2. Take one tortilla at a time and slightly heat it till small bubbles appear.
  3. Remove from heat and spray oil to it on both sides.
  4. Use a grill and place the tortilla on it such that each tortilla rests on 2 bars of it.
  5. Place the grill in the oven for about 10 mins.

To prepare stuffing

  1. Blend the boiled black beans with salt, water and coriander leaves.
  2. Heat a pan with oil and fry the onions till golden brown.
  3. Then add the black beans paste, mix well and remove from heat.

To prepare tacos

  1. In each taco, apply some black bean paste, sprinkle corn over it, then sprinkle some sauce.
  2. Over the sauce, place the salad and place sour cream over this.
  3. Your tacos are ready to be served!!

 

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