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Spiced beef tacos with lime slaw & avocado
Soft corn tortillas filled with homemade taco-spiced beef, a crunchy red cabbage and lime slaw, creamy avocado, yoghurt and a little cheddar.
- 35 min · 20 min hands-on
- Serves 4
- Large frying pan, mixing bowl, grater
- Contains milk, chilli, coriander
- Complete meal
One serve gives you
Daily needs: Female 31–50- Protein 40 g · 31%
- Carbs 44 g · 34%
- Fat 21 g · 35%
- Fibre 11 g
Highest in this recipe
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Ingredients
Weights for 4 servings. Per-serve nutrition stays the same.
- 10 g
- 150 g
- 500 g
- 10 g
- 4 g
- 4 g
- 2 g
- 1 g
- 40 g
- 120 g
- 1.5 g
- 250 g
- 100 g
- 20 g
- 10 g
- 300 g
- 150 g
- 120 g
- 40 g
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Method
5 steps · about 35 min- Heat the olive oil in a large frying pan over medium heat and cook the onion for 5 minutes until soft. Increase the heat to medium-high, add the beef mince and cook for 6–8 minutes, breaking it up, until browned with no pink remaining and it reaches 71°C.
- Stir in the garlic, cumin, smoked paprika, oregano and chilli powder for 1 minute, then the tomato paste for 1 minute. Add the 120 g water and iodised salt and simmer for 4–5 minutes until the sauce thickens and clings to the beef.
- Meanwhile, make the slaw: toss the red cabbage and carrot with the lime juice and half the coriander leaves.
- Warm the corn tortillas in a dry frying pan for 20–30 seconds per side until soft and lightly toasted, keeping them wrapped in a clean tea towel as you go.
- Serve three tortillas per person: fill with the beef, then top with slaw, avocado, a spoonful of yoghurt, a little cheddar and the remaining coriander.
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One serve gives you
Daily needs: Female 31–50- Protein 40 g · 31%
- Carbs 44 g · 34%
- Fat 21 g · 35%
- Fibre 11 g
Highest in this recipe
Black shows one serve; the rest of each bar is left for the day. * Partial ingredient data.
Calculation limitations
- Further heating in this recipe is not covered by the food record or a reviewed cooking factor. Reported contributions remain estimates.
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Editorially reviewed for ingredient-method agreement, flavour structure, moisture control, practical timings and food-safety cues. Compound products and cross-contact remain label-dependent.
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Calculation assumptions & recipe adaptations
Estimated from weighed edible ingredients using existing source-backed food records. Cooking changes without a supported model remain unadjusted; unknown nutrient values remain unknown.
- Olive oil: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Brown onion, finely diced: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Lower-fat beef mince, raw: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Garlic, crushed: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Ground cumin: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Smoked paprika: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Dried oregano: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Chilli powder: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Tomato paste, no added salt: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Water: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Iodised salt: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Red cabbage, finely shredded: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Carrot, grated: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Lime juice: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Fresh coriander leaves: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Small corn tortillas, 12 × about 25 g: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Avocado flesh, sliced: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Plain natural yoghurt: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Cheddar cheese, finely grated: Whole-recipe edible weight.
AFCD attribution, data & methods
Food matches used for nutrition
- Olive oil: Oil, olive
- Brown onion, finely diced: Onion, mature, brown skinned, peeled, raw
- Lower-fat beef mince, raw: Beef, mince, lower fat, raw
- Garlic, crushed: Garlic, peeled, fresh, raw
- Ground cumin: Cumin (cummin) seed, dried, ground
- Smoked paprika: Paprika, dry powder
- Dried oregano: Oregano, dried
- Chilli powder: Chilli (chili), dried, ground
- Tomato paste, no added salt: Tomato, paste, no added salt
- Water: Water, tap
- Iodised salt: Salt, table, iodised
- Red cabbage, finely shredded: Cabbage, red, raw
- Carrot, grated: Carrot, mature, peeled, fresh, raw
- Lime juice: Juice, lime
- Fresh coriander leaves: Coriander, fresh, raw
- Small corn tortillas, 12 × about 25 g: Bread, flat wrap or tortilla, corn, commercial
- Avocado flesh, sliced: Avocado, hass, raw
- Plain natural yoghurt: Yoghurt, natural, regular fat (~3%)
- Cheddar cheese, finely grated: Cheese, cheddar, natural, regular fat