Grammy's Kitchen · Ground Beef Tacos · Lentil Tacos
One of 137 ground beef tacos recipes we measured
from www.budgetbytes.com
14 cooks on www.budgetbytes.com rate it 4.7★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 137.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 59% | 0% |
| fat | 7% | 1% |
| aromatics | 41% | 8% |
| salt | 2% | 0% |
| vegetables and beans | 104% | 17% |
| collagen idx | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| marbling idx | 0.6 | 0.6 |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 384 g | 2 cups dry brown lentils ($0.61) |
| 150 g | 1 small yellow onion ($0.51) |
| 6 g | 2 cloves garlic ($0.16) |
| 27 g | 2 Tbsp olive oil ($0.24) |
| 1 g | 1 recipe taco seasoning (with corn starch) ($0.34) |
| 6 g | 1 tsp salt ($0.05) |
| 400 g | 16 small corn tortillas ($1.03) |
| 1 recipe pico de gallo ($1.91) | |
| 227 g | 8 oz. sour cream ($1.39) |
| 400 g | 2 small avocados ($1.19) |
Method: 5 steps, published by www.budgetbytes.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Really enjoyed this recipe, but had to rate it 4 stars instead of 5 to show that not all of my reviews are five stars, and also, that although this is a really delicious, economical meal, it does not closely resembled tacos in my Canadian imagination :P It rem” — a cook, 4★
“I made this, but sadly couldn't eat it. I made the taco seasoning per your recipe, and the lentils turned out so spicy that even a little bite had my mouth on fire! Even my husband, who loves to smother things in sriracha, took one bite and exclaimed, "Woo! Ye” — a cook, 2★