Chili Beef and Cheese Mini Tacos
Servings: 47 mini tacos
Calories: 84kcal
These Chili Beef and Cheese Mini Tacos are the perfect addition to Snack City in your freezer. The filling is a hot dog style beef chili which is placed into a corn tortilla with a touch of cheese.
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Equipment
Ingredients
For the Chili Beef Tacos
- 2 lbs (908 g) ground beef (90/10)
- 1 tbsp (8 g) cumin
- 1 tbsp (8 g) chili powder
- 2 tsp (6 g) paprika
- 2 tsp (6 g) onion powder
- 2 tsp (6 g) garlic powder
- 6 oz (170 g) tomato paste
- 1 cup (240 g) water
- ¼ cup (32 g) flour I use oat
- 1 cup (112 g) shredded cheese
- 47 3 inch (690 g) corn tortillas
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
For the Chili Beef
- Heat a large pot over medium high heat and add in the ground beef. Break it up immediately as it hits the pot and continue chopping away at it to form smaller pieces. You won't need any oil as we are going to be cooking this in water.
- Add the cumin, chili powder, paprika, onion powder, and garlic powder to the beef and mix it in.
- Then you can add the tomato paste and water and keep stirring and breaking up the beef so that you get fine, soft pieces of meat. As you keep stirring you should see the pieces become smaller and smaller.
- Once about half of the water has cooked off and the mixture is starting to become thicker, add in the flour and mix. This will thicken it even further.
- Continue cooking until the mixture is no longer watery and it is thick enough to be placed into a tortilla without leaking out. Taste test and adjust with salt and pepper as needed.
Constructing the Tacos
- Measure out the cheese and place it into a bowl to add to your assembly line.
- Heat a large griddle or skillet over medium heat. Lay down the corn tortillas in the pan and allow them to warm. Once they start to steam you can flip them to the other side and start filling them with the meat mixture.
- I use a 1oz (28g) cookie scoop to standardize my portions. Each tortilla gets one scoop of meat which gets spread out onto half of the tortilla with a spoon. Top each with a light, 2 finger pinch of cheese and fold the filled side over the empty side to weigh it down. If any beef slides out, just push it back in with a spoon.
- Cook the tacos for a minute or two on each side to brown the tortilla then place them on a sheet pan to cool and prepare to be frozen.
- Continue working through this process until all of your meat has been used up. I ended up getting 47 mini tacos out of this recipe but if you use bigger tortillas, you will obviously have less.
- When all of the tacos are formed and ready on the sheet pan, you can move it to your freezer to flash freeze, uncovered until they are frozen solid.
- Then you can move the frozen tacos into a bag, remove all of the air, and they will stay good in the freezer for months.
- To reheat the tacos I use the air fryer at 400℉ for 5-6 minutes or until they are hot in the center.
- NOTE: Nutritional estimates are per taco.
Nutrition
Calories: 84kcal | Carbohydrates: 8.4g | Protein: 5.4g | Fat: 3.2g
NUTRITIONAL INFO FOR THE Chili Beef and Cheese Mini Tacos
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Servings
Carbs
394.95g
Protein
253.08g
Fat
148.99g
Calories
3933.03 cals
This Post Has 6 Comments
I had such a hard time trying to keep them folded. But I think it was the white corn tortillas?
I made these with bigger soft taco tortillas (fewer tacos) and used a salsa topper for extra flavor. My oat flour might have been a little old but I felt like it made meat filling a little bland. Maybe it needed some added salt and pepper. I think if you use bigger tortillas you can omit the flour thickener.
It literally says add salt and pepper to your liking…
Great base and addition for snack city. I would agree with Taylor, bit bland. Added extra taco seasoning and little bit of taco sauce I had laying around.
Going to keep experimenting with it until I find the perfect blend .
I love these tacos! I make these for me and the bean and spinach ones for my wife. She asked me to make these using beyond beef and they look like they turned out just fine! (I refuse to try them, gross.) she loves them and now we both have full snack city stock
These look so cute, and I really wanted to make these, but the smallest tortillas I could find were 4.5 inches and I’m worried about it throwing off the ratios of the other ingredients. Not sure where to find these 3 inch tortillas? Or does anyone know if the size of the tortilla matters that much?