With only five simple ingredients and the use of a slow cooker you can create these tasty tacos with little effort.
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Five ingredient beef tacos
Minimum effort for max reward.
- 10 mins preparation
- 6 hrs cooking
- Serves 6
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Ingredients
- 1 kg piece beef chuck steak
- 30 grams packet taco seasoning mix
- 1 baby cos lettuce
- 12 mini flour tortillas (300g)
- ½ cup (120g) sour cream
- sea salt flakes
- freshly ground black pepper
Method
- 1Heat a 5-litre (20-cup) slow cooker on LOW. Rub beef with seasoning mix and place in cooker. Pour 1 cup (250ml) water over beef; cook, covered, for 6 hours.
- 2Remove beef from slow cooker. When cool enough to handle, shred meat coarsely using two forks. Discard half the liquid from cooker. Season remaining liquid to taste.
- 3Meanwhile, trim and wash lettuce. Shred lettuce or leave whole.
- 4Warm tortillas following packet directions. Serve lettuce and beef in tortillas, topped with sour cream and drizzled with a little of the cooking liquid. Season; serve.
Notes
Add grated cheddar in step 4, if you like.Serve with the chunky guacamole.Refrigerate beef mixture at the end of step 2 in an airtight container for up to 3 days, or freeze for up to 3 months; thaw in the fridge.
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