Grammy's Kitchen · Ground Beef Tacos · Prawn cocktail mini tacos (shrimp)
One of 137 ground beef tacos recipes we measured
9 cooks on www.recipetineats.com rate it 4.9★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 137.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 1% | 0% |
| fat | 25% | 1% |
| aromatics | 0% | 8% |
| sweetener | 8% | 0% |
| salt | 0% | 0% |
| vegetables and beans | 0% | 17% |
| collagen idx | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| marbling idx | 0.6 | 0.6 |
Adapts cleanly: nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 150 g | 6 corn tortillas (~13cm / 3" wide (Note 1 on flour tortillas)) |
| 1 g | 1/4 tsp cooking salt / kosher salt ((halve for table salt)) |
| Olive oil spray | |
| 220 g | 220g/7 oz cooked prawns/shrimp, peeled ((ie 500g/1 lb whole cooked in shell, then peel yourself, Note 2)) |
| 55 g | 4 tbsp mayonnaise (, preferably whole egg, or Kewpie (Note 3)) |
| 17 g | 1 tbsp ketchup ((or Aussie tomato sauce)) |
| 5 g | 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce |
| 2 g | 1/2 tsp horseradish cream (, or better yet fresh horseradish (Note 4)) |
| 2 dashes of tabasco (, for touch of spice (optional)) | |
| 0 g | 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper (, for touch of spice (optional)) |
| 0 g | 1/8 tsp garlic powder ((or small garlic clove pressed using garlic crusher)) |
| 6 g | 1 tbsp cornichons ((or dill pickle), finely chopped) |
| 6 g | 1 tbsp chives (, finely sliced (or parsley)) |
| Fancy options - salmon roe, caviar ((not pictured)) | |
| Dried black beans or rock salt (, to keep upright when serving (optional, Note 5)) |
Method: 11 steps, published by www.recipetineats.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“These tacos are great and not too fiddly to put together. However, I found the suggested size of the rounds too small, so cut rounds of 3”. Also, will never put the tacos on a bed of raw black beans again as a few beans migrated into the tacos and almost brok” — a cook, 4★
“These tacos are great and not too fiddly to put together. However, I found the suggested size of the rounds too small, so cut rounds of 3”. Also, will never put the tacos on a bed of raw black beans again as a few beans migrated into the tacos and almost broke” — a cook, 4★