How to make Hard Shell Beef Tacos
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
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A yellow crispy hard shell, seasoned beef, lettuce, tomato, & shredded cheese. This is what a lot of people picture when they hear the word taco.
Given those ingredient constraints, I wanted to make the highest quality version of the homemade hard shell ground beef taco that I could. I focused on the quality of the ingredients in addition to cooking techniques to take the taco from fast-food level to gourmet beef taco.
Step aside Taco Bell and all other hardshell makers, this is the best hard shell taco you can get!
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-- SEASONED GROUND BEEF --
- 1 lb 80/20 ground beef
- 2 TBSP Cumin
- 1 TBSP Paprika
- ½ TBSP Chipotle Powder
- ½ TBSP Smoked Ghost Pepper Powder
- 1 TBSP Diced Tomato
- Salt to taste
1. Set a cast-iron pan over medium heat.
2. Add the beef and a healthy handful of salt. Brown the beef
3. Meanwhile, heat a pan over medium-low heat. Toast the cumin, paprika, chipotle powder, and smoked ghost pepper powder. Once the spices are fragrant and warmed through, add to the beef.
4. Mix the spices with the beef.
5. Add the tomato and stir to combine.
6. TASTE IT! Add more salt if you need to.
-- TOPPINGS --
- Lettuce, finely sliced
- Tomato, small dice
- Cotija cheese, grated
-- TO ASSEMBLE --
- Corn Tortillas
1. Steam the corn tortillas by folding them in a damp towel and microwaving for 60 seconds. This is done to make them more pliable for frying.
2. Fill the tortillas with a large spoonful of the beef and a small pinch of cotija cheese. Fold them in half.
3. Heat a cast iron with a thin layer of oil over medium-high heat.
4. Lay the tacos and fry until the outside is just golden brown and crispy. Flip to the other side.
5. Lay on a paper towel to soak up any excess oil.
6. Add the toppings and enjoy the best damn hard shell taco you can get.
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MISCELLANEOUS DETAILS
Music: Provided by Musicbed
Filmed on: Sony a6400 w/ 18-105mm F4
Voice recorded on Behringer Ultravoice Mic
Edited in: Premiere Pro #TacoTuesday
Been subbed for a while and loving the Taco Tuesday series in particular. This videos is one of my favorites now, too. Not just because the way you tackled the taco shells, but I was absolutely cracking up at the captions as the kid slowly crept into the kitchen. I love that you didn't just try editing him out or reshoot like a lot of people probably would have. 10/10
He thought he was out of the shot, I was cracking up while editing too and thought I need to add some captions. Glad you enjoyed it!
Feed that poor teenager! He’s probably not eaten in 45 minutes and he won’t last much longer. Speaking from experience. Haha!
The lurker in the background.
Always looking for his next meal!
Jayyy Zeee 😂😂😂
I just made these tonight and they came out fantastic! I overcooked the beef a little bit but it tasted great. Thank you Ethan, you’ve redeemed yourself once again as my favorite RUclips cooking channel!
As a Mexican, I don’t usually like hard-shell tacos but these ones seem super tasty 😋
"As A MeXiCa-" shut the fuck up. Nobody cares.
You're not Mexican
No idea how icamr across Ethan but love his content. 4 years and his production skills are seriously sharp vs this video.
The base is there but can see now its someone who commands the space while a little timid.
Shows the benefits of continuous practice and eefining. Great stuff all the same
Love how even through your videos are as gorgeous as a sunset and as well-edited as imaginable, you don't try to cut out every single slip of the tongue but just talk to us like a normal person.
I liked the typography in this one! Also, I'm going to have to start frying up the tacos like you, that looks legit.
Much appreciated man! It's definitely a game-changer method.
Perfect timing! I’m making tacos for dinner tonight and after watching thus, I’ll be frying the outside. Looks SO GOOD!
It is a game-changer, one of the best techniques of the series!
Im liking the vibe of this channel. If you could keep doing these simple recipes for guys learning to cook, that would be sweet
Much appreciated, there are plenty more recipes on the way!
I have had this great desire to have taco with a hard shell. Its not easy to find nowadays so I am all over this recipe. I will also do a veggie version for my son, substituting mushrooms and tofu for the meat. On my way to the kitchen!!!!!
Growing up never had pre made taco shells. My mom always used white corn tortillas and pan fried the tacos. Now days I use sandwich roast beef slice thin like shredded beef in the taqueria with seasoning (onions, chiles, cilantro, and salsa) to fill my taco instead of ground beef. Love your videos hope to go to Mexico City in March or April.
Those tacos look insanely good dude...and the face you make at 8:58...priceless!
They have that same addicting quality of fast food with double the deliciousness!
Hey, Tim, your channel is GREAT! Now do you see the value of "The Tuck"? :-)
Wtf that intro caught me off guard! I love it!
Me too. Is that music?
Edit 3: It really can't be understated how much better tacos made like this taste than store bought shells and spices. I made some for a friend, and upon his first bite he said "Wow these are really really good. Like, it's surprising how good they are." I used ATKs tacos dorados recipe.
I'm not sure I can stomach $12 for a pound of ground beef. Maybe for burgers, but the main flavor in a beef taco is the cacophony of spices, so I feel like this is one place crazy good quality beef would be wasted.
Edit: One note on blooming spices. I don't know if this is common, but every time I bloom spices, everything in my apartment practically smells like the spices ad infinitum. I made tacos at the end of June, moved July 1st, and everything in boxes still smells like tacos. My college apartment windows had bars on either side so you couldn't open them more than a couple inches, so poor ventilation probably has a lot to do with it.
Edit 2: I'm not really sure what you'll gain from toasting them separately. Blooming them in the beef fat should be more than sufficient to wake up those spices.
The better taste of loca beef actually goes even BETTER with the spices rather than being masked my them. Like the spices, beef raised with care is very aromatic. Also, your "less expensive" grocery store beef is pumped with water and preservatives to make it weigh more. So while the label might say one pound, it contains less actual meat than a pound of small-farm beef.
This is literally like my Taco Recipe. I make a fire roasted salsa, and found putting in a 1/4 cup (I do a kilo at a time) into my beef adds flavor AND ACID to blend the taco meat best.
Thanks mate. Great Taco.
I've got the same knives :) Damn fine ones. My sister put a couple in the dishwasher. I miss her.
Before i watched this, i buttered one side of the tortilla (butter with canola oil in it) and i think it might taste better than vegetable oil.
Definitely hands down the greatest graphics in a good tut.... I made it and turned out amazing PROPS BRA
You're channel is gonna blow up !!
Appreciate it!
Loling at Gabe. Also, I feel like this is a mash up of a taco and quesadilla and I am SO here for it! Trying this ASAP.
It's a next level technique for crispy goodness!
No matter what, it has to be better than Taco Hell.
mom i want binging with babish
we have binging with babish at home
binging with babish at home :
Lmao
Hahahahaha
Looks great
Amazing quality ! Tacos looks SUPER TASTY!!!!
Just found this!!! They came out perfect!!! Thank you for this!!!
However way you make these videos when editing keep it up . Besides that I love the recipe DELICIOUS! 🖤🖤
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoy them!
Omg I love tacos, and these were soooooo good.
Nice, they look great!
Thank you!
this lurker is quite rude. thanks for the vid. learned from you
I do it almost exactly like you do, except I leave out the lettuce and instead add a mixture of pickled, cut jalapenos and red onions. Works well!
Those are the toppings are prefer too! Stuck to the basics for the sake of the video :)
Love the recipe, diggin the beard 🍻
You're not wrong about the difference in quality between a local farmer's cows and mass-produced beef.
Great video , I’m about to try this now !
Definitely have to give this a try. I love tacos!!🤣🤣🤣
Just discovered your channel, definitely going to give this recipe a shot. Loved the inclusion of ghost chile powder 👍
If Taco Bell made their tacos like this, most Mexicans would actually approve it no doubt
Ethan, I just pulled my Diana Kennedy book out and put it on the nightstand to reread tonight. I totally missed this method (probably just naive) of frying the tortillas. So genius and delicious looking and this is being made tomorrow. Also, I like the romaine tip as I just can't bring myself to buy iceberg lettuce. I'll make a real Caesar salad (with anchovy and egg yolk dressing) with grilled chicken thighs the next night.
John G Awesome! The one downfall of that book is the lack of pictures, it’s definitely easy to read over, I usually have to read things a couple times to make sure I understand what she is doing!
Caesar salad is always a winner. I haven’t made a proper dressing myself (yet), but I was reading Samin Nosrat’s method in Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. Is that similar to the dressing you make?
@@EthanChlebowski Samin is AWESOME, so joyous and full of zest. Her recipe is the basic one that I make, but instead of adding the mayonnaise I just take an egg yolk, lemon juice, champagne vinegar, and dijon mustard (I will be making mustard at home now), whisk that together and drizzle in good extra virgin olive oil to make a loose mayo, then add an anchovy, chopped, and some finely minced salt cured capers.After that I will fold in some parmasiano regiano "snow", dress the romaine, add some more parm grated, and a steamed egg with a runny yolk with each serving (what DOES one call an egg with a fully cooked white but runny yolk anyway? I think hard boiled implies a solid yolk.)
T-Week Automation is in production.
Not the comment I expected this morning, but the comment I needed.
Hope all is well!
The music in this video is not even music it’s just random noise. What were you doing 4 years ago Ethan?
thank god someone else noticed. It was so bad it made me 🤢 and 🤮 before I could think of food.
You know those tacos were good by the way that person came out just waiting for the video to end so he could chow
My grocery store doesn’t have “chipotle powder”. Should I do chili powder? Or ancho chili powder? Or go find chipotle?
YAY!!!!!!
Oh Yeah !!
Bruh that's quesadilla
Music provided by RZA
I assume that means worse than eating rancid food yeah?
So why not add garlic powder and onion powder?
QUESTION: Smoked or regular Paprika? I won't be using the smoked ghost pepper.
I always prefer smoked paprika!
Thats a crazy amount of Cumin! Im suprised the beef dont taste like feet. lol
EDIT: Ok I see what ya did there. haha
No Sugar?
Basically... But Better! Lol
Good video. But I almost didn't get past the 1st 5 second. That Music just made me cringe
Where did you find the Smoked Ghost pepper? Checked every store and nada!
This was homemade from one of my cousins, I should have mentioned that! You can use an ancho chile or regular chile powder instead.
Is it sacrilege to also add some good quality taco sauce or salsa over these?
Haha not at all! Make it how you like them.
@@EthanChlebowski That's good to know. I love some good hot sauce on my tacos generally. I can't find any good Mexican food at all near where I live on LI NY here, and Taco Bell doesn't do much for me, so I may be buying some cast iron sets and cooking up my own quite soon. I've knocked out cajun food and Thai food before, so I am ready for a challenge.
Why does it bug me when people pronounce queso as KAY-SO. It's pronounced KEH-SO.
Who in the back lol 😆
"hair cut thin" makes no sense
thin as hair; as thin as possible
@@abc6568 yeah, shave-thin.
how anyone noticed anything beyond the music however? That's the real question.
@@trumanhw probably not aye
Nowhere near enough cheese.
I just liked you 10 times more when u said u’re gonna toast the spices first! Gosh why there isn’t more people realise spices are way more aromatic when it’s heated (or even bette, with oil). Throwing powder spices straight into watery dishes is such a waste imo
how r u gonna eat tacos w/out sour creaaaamm
it's supposed to be iceberg lettuce but ok
Looked like you stressed to make that 10 minute mark.
Not at all, I wasn't even able to monetize videos when I made this one. I got partner in late September.
Followed recipe exactly except for ghost pepper. Measured everything, I even weighed the meat, exact ingredients used were as specified.
PROBLEM: The beef had no SAVORY BEEF FLAVOR - MONOTONE - ONLY HEAT. THE SPICE BLEND DIDN'T SEEM INTERESTING.
QUESTION: What went wrong or is the beef just suppose to be a granular heat dispensing vehicle?
BTW - I love the thoroughness of your videos and your presentation!
6:27 - The solution is as simple as adding more salt. I'm serious.
*Salt is the number 1 reason why food doesn't taste good and what separates bland food from great food.* I even said in the video, after my first taste it was alright, but it needed more salt, which I added plenty of. Don't be afraid of it!
A lot of people think adding things like a bunch of spices, garlic, onion, pepper, is what makes food taste good, but it doesn't. It will still be bland as hell if it's not salted correctly. This is why I try to make it a point in all my videos, that you need to taste and add salt and repeat.
Don't be afraid of over salting either, the only way you can learn what levels of salt your taste buds like are if you under and over salt it. Then you can dial it in.
Keep trying my friend, salting is the first skill to master. Once you have it down, everything you cook will be so much more flavorful. Hope that helps!
@@EthanChlebowski Thanks - will be making a second batch soon. BTW: I really followed the recipe exactly and even got the right cheese. I bloomed the spices exactly. Added a spoon of tomatoes, etc. My only issue was the taste/texture of the beef. Maybe I over cooked the beef.
BUT - your message is received and I'll work on the salting. Thank you again for your timely responses
@@d.t.1470 ///Maybe I over cooked the beef.///
Pretty much impossible. You have to fry ground beef for an absolute age to gett the beef flavour to develop. The first 10 minutes you are just boiling. When the water has all evaporated and it starts to properly sizzle, then the beef taste will come through.
Try adding oregano.
I do gotta say it's gross when these people amplify the sound of their mouth when they chew.
DUDE music is way too loud.
WHAT!?? You're saying the only problem with it was the volume!???
It's meal ruining terrible. Like those sounds the military uses to make you vomit.
How is it American style when it’s too spicy for the white people😂😂😂
Sorry bro, I gotta side with the vegans on this one.
Same with brains, private parts, udders and tails. I'm sure there's more I won't eat too.
Whats with the weird lesbian in the back? Creepy
seriously. that idiot back there thinking their incognito bc he's not looking at IT. you know it's one of those alphabet idiots too.
Chew with ur mouth closed, man