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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Latin American >> Mexican >> Mexican

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Put the ground chuck in a large pot or Dutch oven and add seasonings. | 2. Add just enough water to cover the meat, bring to a boil, then reduce and simmer for about an hour. | 3. Every 15 minutes or so break up the meat with a large spoon or a potato masher so that it isn't lumpy. Be sure always to keep just enough water to cover the meat. | 4. After an hour add the onion and bell pepper and simmer another 20 minutes. The meat should be very finely textured at this point. | 5. Remove from the heat, pour into a strainer over a large bowl, and let the meat sit in the strainer for 10 or 15 minutes to make sure all grease drains away, pressing it a few times. | 6. After the meat has drained as much as possible, place the bowl of liquid (which you want to keep) and grease in the freezer for a while. When grease separates and hardens on top, take a spoon and remove all of it. Retain about a cup of the degreased liquid. | 7. Place reserved liquid in a pan and bring to a boil. Dissolve 1 teaspoon of corn starch in 1/4 cup of cold water and add to the liquid, simmering 4 or 5 more minutes. Add reserved meat into the pan and mix liquid well into meat. | 8. Serve in taco shells or tortillas, or mix into a taco salad or casserole. | 9. Leftovers freeze well. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
chuck	2	lbs	ground	1269.3362	2.8107	191.5791	55.0348
chili powder	2	tablespoons		45.12	7.952000000000001	2.1536	2.2848
cumin	1	teaspoon	ground	7.875	0.929	0.374	0.4677
garlic powder	1	teaspoon		10.261	2.2546	0.5131	0.0226
paprika	1	teaspoon		6.486000000000001	1.2418	0.3252	0.2965
salt	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
bell pepper	1/2		chopped	-	-	-	-
onion	1/2		minced	32.0	7.472	0.88	0.08

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.