Dish · mexican
Taco
A corn tortilla is filled with braised beef, onion, and cilantro, and finished with a squeeze of lime, folded and eaten by hand.
Where it comes from
The taco predates written Mexican history as a way to wrap tortillas around any filling for eating without utensils; it only spread into a fixed national dish through migration to Mexican cities and the United States.
What cooks argue about
The main fight is the tortilla: warmed briefly for flexibility, or lightly fried in fat for a bit of crunch that some argue is closer to how street vendors actually serve it.
Versions
Nobody has published a taco here yet. When somebody cooks one from a video and publishes it, their version appears in this list, with a link back to the original.
What goes in it
Each one opens everything else made with it.
corn tortilla
beef chuck
onion
cilantro
lime