/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>5996496

traditional taco's are actually made with authentic waffles and indigenous formed meat patties with classic scrambles eggs. This whole tortillas thing is just a new wave fad that was started by the likes of Taco bell and other fast food abominations.

Are you Norwegian, OP? Not judgin', just curious.

You can't buy tortillas in the store? Perfect that first. They should be very thin, thinner than a crepe. All the other basics are easy, just some seasoning or marinade for your meats, and veggies, salsa and maybe cheese. Sauce if you want to make enchiladas. You can google the recipes for those, and the ingredients are common enough for any grocery to order.

>>5996527

That looks tasty as fuck. What kind of sauce?

>>5996534

Just pulled a random pic off of google to give OP an idea what he's going for. Recipe is here: http://www.domesticate-me.com/shrimp-tacos-with-corn-salsa-and-chipotle-avocado-crema/

>>5996527

Those tortillas look like they are fresh out of the package and haven't been heated at all.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization

>boil white corn in limewater
>drain
>mash it
>make tortilla with the dough
>bake it

>>5996595
Food porn makers don't always know how to food porn.

>>5996496
>Please educate me on the subject of tortillas and tacos and things of that nature.
What did you think was lacking? Specifically the flavor, texture, ingredient choices?

In a classic American taco we use ground beef, diced tomato, iceberg lettuce, sour cream, and cheddar cheese. There are no beans. Next you need the proper seasonings which I do not know since I buy it in a premade packet. I believe it is a mixture of chili powder, cumin, and paprika. You brown the meat. Strain it. Add the seasoning mix with a bit of water. Let the water boil off. Then shovel the meat in taco shells or tortillas. Load then with sour cream, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.

You don't use chicken since it has little fat and can't properly soak up the seasoning. Some use steak. Not sure what cut.

>>5996496
>not making an american style taco
You have no one to blame but yourself OP.

Why not just import a taco kit off the internet?

>>5996509
very underrated post

>>5996695
laughingsluts.jpg

listen up, op
corn tortilla, beef (fried or roasted) diced onions* and coriander, green sauce (made with green tomatoes and jalapeño or Serrano peppers and cooked with more onions and coriander). Avocado.

*tortilla, beef and onions can be fried in lard or vegetal oil for extra steetness

these are the minimum requirements for a real taco, anything else is phony shit.

>>5996727
>green tomatoes


This stupid fggt doesn't know what a tomatillo is

If you use a corn tortilla you are going to have a bad time. They just don't have the pliability of wheat.

>>5996744
>implying op knows what tomatillo is

>>5996780
A green tomato and a tomatillo are separate things where I am from. Besides it is doubtful he could get that where he is. Might not be able to get the avocado or the peppers listed either.

>>5996780

>he thinks you can use a green tomato in place of a tomatillo

>>5996727
green sauce? You mean salsa verde.

>>5996798
Salsa verde uses tomatillos not green tomatoes.

If you are going to be using corn tortillas, my advice is to not use them raw. When raw they taste bland and are generally easy to break. I prefer to fry mine a little bit in oil and the put a little salt on them.

>>5996496
go with maseca

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE02vGVBJww

you wont get it right to begin with, but once you do good ones will be soft and have a slight popcorn flavor once cooked/warmed

>>5996763

Huh?

Flour tortillas such for tacos. I don't even consider it to be a taco if it doesn't use a corn tortilla. With a flour tortilla, it is more like a glorified burrito.

>>5997674
There is always some elitist here who says that but we recently had a thread about how horrible they are whether fresh or store bought. The store bought is better since they do things to them to give the tortilla extra pliability uncharacteristic for corn ones. The missing gluten in corn tortilla is why wheat trumps them.

>>5997769
wheat flour tortillas are never a first choice and i mean ever for older generations ... flour tortillas are like ipod's and iphone's in the sense that they are stylish in the eye of youngsters

the fact that northern areas found wheat flour a more economical for tortillas means very little in areas that did not suffer from droughts like those who did actually change ... flour tortillas are not hardly as nutritious and healthy as are corn based ones

>>5997826
Foreigners aren't eating Mexican for nutrition. Mexican food isn't what you eat if you want to be healthy. Look at Mexicans. Horribly obese. We have found wheat is better and thus its popularity. There are some internet hipsters who will spout on and on about corn, but it is simply the worse of the two. A good hard taco is the best option but most store bought are too hard, thick, and stale.

>>5997835
based idiot

Every single Mexican I've known has said corn tortillas are superior. That said, I like flour tortillas more because of the elasticity and chewiness. Corn tortillas just kinda break on you. I will admit that certain flour tortilla brands taste "funny," whereas most corn tortilla brands mostly consistent/good.

>>5996496
go to chipotles and order a taco if you want to see

>>5996595
>tortillas out of a package

do you even taco?

>>5996496
aw i wanted pie.

Most people don't even know the corn tortillas are supposed to be fried, not eaten right out of the package

>>6000023
Wouldn't that just make them into sort of a hard taco shell?

>>6000071
Only if you cook them until they're hard. It's traditional in making enchiladas to fry the tortillas for a short while, less than a minute, in lard. This actually makes the tortillas more flexible and prevents a great deal of tortilla breakage.

>>5996496
First question is do you want a real taco or tacos like americans eat? They require two (well, three since there are two american types) very different kind of tortilla.

>>6000079

And it makes them not taste like crap.

>>6000023
They don't even have to be fried. You can heat them on a dry skillet or flat top till they are warm (a minute, maybe, depending on the heat) and more pliable, but before they start drying or browning.

>>5998005
>>5997769
Do you hear that? Don't use corn tortillas straight out of the package.

>>6000023
>corn tortillas are supposed to be fried
based idiot

>>6000418
pst....pst...there is no package when they are made fresh.

>>5996696
>mfw i was feeling it until the pancake

>>5996496
Typical flyover pleb food

My favorite tacos are the ones that remind me of home. Simple af, cook up some ground beef, fry some corn tortillas (not completely fried, just till it has a little crunch, or whatever you prefer tbh) throw some lettuce, sour cream, some queso fresco, and some tapatio on it. Doesn't live up to /ck/ standards, but i find them to be fucking delicious and i could eat em all dal.

Why is everyone talking about cooking corn tortillas in oil? YOU DON'T NEED TO DO THAT. All you need is a comal. A comal is a flat, round griddle that you cook the tortillas on. They are typically quite heavy despite their thinness. They are used exclusively for cooking tortillas on. You wait for them to get hot, throw on the tortillas with the smooth sides facing out and periodically flip 'em, adding more and more tortillas with each flip so you've got a nice stack of tortillas going, the tortillas closer to the center continue to cook without burning. I will admit I flip them with a spatula.

Of course, you can lightly fry them in oil or lard, its all a matter of which texture you prefer. Cooking them in oil makes them very soft so if your filling is very wet they can break apart very easily. When your fillings are drier fried tortillas are nice. You can also steam them for yet a different texture.

A lot of people eat tortillas without any filling, just like bread. They roll it up, hold it in one hand, and bite it in between bites of food on their plate. Or they use it to sop up all the flavorful juices. For this you probably wont cook it in oil bc the oil will drip down your hand.

my own tried and true chicken taco recipe:
>thinly chop onions and garlic and sweat both of them with some butter in a pot for a while
>clear a space in the middle and put some tomato paste
>let the tomato paste cook just a little bit
>deglaze pot with 1/2 a cup of chicken stock
>put cumin, cilantro, lime juice, salt and your choice of spicy pepper in
>put 1/2 cup of thinly diced tomatoes in
>cook chicken breasts in the oven for about 20 minutes on high
>shred chicken and dump into pot
>let all of it simmer for at least 20 minutes
>drain the chicken in a collander or use the juice as a chicken enchilada soup base
>now you have delicious shredded chicken to use as filling.