Tacos Al Carbon Recipes

Steps:

• To make the corn tortillas: Mix corn masa with water to make tortilla dough. Form a ball using 1 ounce of the dough. Place it into the tortilla press to form 1 tortilla and transfer onto a hot grill until it is well cooked on both sides. The tortilla will be soft and puffed when done.
• For Chicken Fajita Filling: First, marinate the chicken breast in lime juice, garlic, salt, pepper, oil, jalapeno pepper, cilantro, red chilies and liquid smoke. After marinated and cooked on both sides on the grill, cut into thin strips.
• For tomatillo Sauce: Roast the tomatillos and serrano peppers on the grill. Use Mexican stone bowl mortar to mash up the ingredients. Mash all the ingredients, keeping it chunky. Add salt to taste. To assemble Tacos Al Carbon: Fill 1 tortilla with the chicken and tomatillo sauce and roll.

Steps:

• Lightly sprinkle meat with seasoning salt.
• Cut into 3-4 large pieces.
• Mix lime and lemon juices, garlic, cilantro, and olive oil.
• Place meat and marinade in plastic bag or plastic bowl.
• Marinate 4-6 hours, turning occasionally.
• Discard marinade.
• Grill meat over medium heat@ 15 minutes, turning occasionally.
• Cook steak until desired doneness, the 15 minutes over medium heat creates medium done steak.
• Cut into strips and serve in corn tortillas.
• Top with 1-2 Tbl.
• of Avocado salsa.
• While meat is cooking chop up ingredients for Avocado salsa, sprinkle with lime juice and seasoning salt.
• I leave avocado pits in mixture to prevent discoloration.
• To warm tortillas you may wrap them in foil and place on grill or wrap in paper towels and microwave for 30-45 seconds.
• Sprinkle with a small amount of water if tortillas are very dry before warming them.

Steps:

• Marinate the meat for at least one hour in a mixture of 1/2 onion and the garlic, lime juice, cumin and a 1/2 teaspoon salt.
• Grill peppers and onion over open flame until blackened.
• Remove excess marinade, oil steak lightly and grill (1 1/2- 2 minutes for medium rare).
• Cut steak into strips making sure to cut against the grain.
• Combine with grilled onions and peppers.
• Serve with corn tortillas.
• Sprinkle just before serving with lime wedges.