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Weeknight Mexican dinners the Pepper community pulls off with a single skillet — birria tacos, enchiladas, burrito bowls, and salsas worth doubling.

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Tacos!!!!Dinner

Tacos!!!!

This shrimp taco recipe is the only one you need! A perfect way to mix up taco night!

45 min650 cal25 g proteinServes 23,538 saves
Kylee StecKylee Stec

Ingredients

  • Shrimp
  • Cumin
  • Chili powder
  • Paprika
  • Garlic
  • 1-2 Jalapeños
  • 1 Pineapple(canned works)
  • 1 Orange juice
  • lots! Lime juice
  • half a head Cabbage
  • 1/2 cup Greek yogurt or sour cream
  • Chives or green onions
  • lots! Cilantro
  • 2 per person Flour tortillas
  • 2 Avacados
  • 1/2 Purple onion
  • Onion powder

Instructions

  1. 11. The shrimp! This is super simple! Heat a skillet with some garlic, olive oil, and I added a handful of white onion in there. Salt and Pepper! Once hot get those shrimp cooking! I sprinkled cumin, chili powder, paprika on top. Then flipped and sprinkled some more. Give it a dash more of each of you like extra spice! Adding spice is all a personal preference and who you are cooking for!
  2. 22. Pineapple Jalepeno Salsa! I love the sweetness of pineapple on the taco! Dice dice dice those jalepenos! Save some for the guacamole and slaw! Heat the jalepenos in a skillet with some garlic. I used a whole jalepeno. Then take a can of pineapple any kind and mix it in on the skillet. After getting a nice char add to a big handful of cilantro, juice of one orange, and some lime!
  3. 33. The Slaw!! Cilantro and Lime together the perfect combo! Slice the slaw! (About half the head) Dice the cilantro! (A big handful!) mix in the lime, garlic, salt, onion powder. Measure with the heart! Then stir in the sour cream or Greek yogurt about 1/2cup….. Add some jalepenos for some extra spice!
  4. 44. Guac!! Avacados(2), purple onion(1/2), some garlic, 1/2 handful of cilantro, 1/2 jalepeno, salt, and pepper!
  5. 55. Assemble!! Warm flour tortilla and put the taco together! Enjoy!

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Quick Tips

  1. 1

    Toast the dried chiles

    Thirty seconds on a dry skillet before soaking wakes up every ancho or guajillo you're using.

  2. 2

    Warm the tortillas over the burner

    Ten seconds a side over an open flame beats a microwave every time.

  3. 3

    Onions and cilantro finish everything

    A quick pico or a spoon of diced white onion on top makes a good taco great.

  4. 4

    Salsa is not a garnish

    Make one from scratch and it becomes half the plate — jarred is a fallback, not a rule.

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