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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Latin American >> South American >> Argentine

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Coat a frying pan with 1 Tbsp olive oil. | 2. Use a food processor or blender to make the onions into a paste and add to hot frying pan. | 3. Sauté onion for a minute or so and then add the ground sirloin, cumin & cayenne pepper. | 4. Once browned, add salt and pepper to taste. | 5. Meanwhile prepare the condiments; grate the cheeses (I use the finer grade); cut the avacado, tomatoes & lettuce. | 6. Once you have everything else ready, cook the shell. | 7. Heat the 2 cups (or more, making sure that the shell will be completely submerged) of cooking oil (I use Wesson) in a frying pan. | 8. To test whether it's hot enough, tear a small piece off the shell and toss in the pan; if it sizzles it's ready. | 9. Corn shells cook fast, so once you get the shell in the oil, use tongs to shape it into a taco shape; never leave your tacos in oil unattended! | 10. Once you get it to your desired taste, let set upside down to drain off the grease. | 11. Fill tacos with meat and then head over to your taco bar! | 12. Add black olives or even green olives and a dollop of sour cream if you like. | 13. You can also serve beans and rice as side dishes; my husband likes tacos just by themselves. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
olive oil	1	tablespoon		119.34	0.0	0.0	13.5
onion	1/2	cup	chopped	32.0	7.472	0.88	0.08
sirloin	1	lb	ground	512.2678	0.0	103.7229	7.752000000000001
cumin	1/2	teaspoon		3.9375	0.4645	0.187	0.2338
cayenne pepper	1/4	teaspoon		1.431	0.2548	0.054000000000000006	0.0777
salt pepper				-	-	-	-
monterey jack pepper cheese	1	cup	shredded	-	-	-	-
cheddar cheese	1	cup		-	-	-	-
avocado	1 -2		sliced	-	-	-	-
tomato	1	cup	chopped ripened	41.4	9.18	2.16	0.36
lettuce	1	cup	shredded	5.4	1.0332	0.4896	0.054000000000000006
taco sauce				-	-	-	-
cooking oil	2	cups		-	-	-	-
taco shell	16			-	-	-	-

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