Whether your gang likes their tacos with steak, chicken, ground beef, pork, fish, or veggies, or whether they care for them to be Americanized or straight-up Mexican street tacos, here are options aplenty to guarantee family taco night is a resounding success.
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Beef Chili Tacos
When chili con carne meets all your favorite taco fixings, the result is these beef chili tacos. The taste? Incomparable.
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These easy chicken tacos, made with marinated grilled chicken and a cilantro-spiked mayonnaise, are an easy meal, perfect for weeknights or casual entertaining.
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These grilled fish tacos are easy and healthy and made with cilantro, cabbage, lime, and a splash of tequila for good measure. Almost exactly like what you’d find in Baja Mexico.
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These sweet and spicy tacos are made with ground turkey, chili powder, and orange juice. Its unusual spice is perfect for a DIY taco party.
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These vegan butternut squash tacos combine spicy Mexican street corn with roasted butternut squash for an outstanding vegetarian taco feast. Topped with guacamole, cabbage, cilantro, and sour cream, these tacos are ludicrously good.
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This chipotle maple barbecue beef brisket is beef brisket is massaged with a tangy spice rub and slathered with a barbecue sauce packed with sweet heat. Balsamic vinegar, maple syrup, and chipotle all contribute to its superbly smooth flavor.
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These Baja-style tempura fish tacos are as authentic as they come. White fish is dunked in a quick chile-lime marinade and then battered and pan-fried until crisp before being tucked in soft tortillas and topped with slaw and banana mango salsa.
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These Korean-inspired tacos are topped with beef bulgogi, kimchi, and a gochujang taco sauce.
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Yes, beef tongue tacos. DON’T click off this page! These little babies are made from beef tongue that is slowly cooked until falling apart tender then chopped and spooned atop soft corn or flour tortillas. Classic and authentic.
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This fish tacos recipe with creamy chipotle cabbage slaw is made with fish, cabbage, lime, cilantro, and corn tortillas.
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Skirt steak is one of the most flavorful cuts on the entire steer, and when grilled and sliced properly, it’s one of the best values at the butcher shop. I like my tacos on the spicy side, so I load them up with plenty of sliced jalapeño and garnish with a squeeze of fresh lime, cilantro, and pickled red onions.
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These slow-cooker barbacoa tacos, filled with tender shredded meat, onions, salsa, limes, hot sauce, and cilantro is perfect comfort food any time of the day.
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This taco with sea scallops recipe, with sea scallops, orange, jicama, red onion, cilantro, and peanuts, is a quick and easy weeknight meal.
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These chorizo breakfast tacos, loaded with eggs, potatoes, radish, crumbled chorizo sausage, Cotija cheese, and cilantro, are spectacular any time of the day.
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These pork tacos, made with pork, beer, spices, and soft tortillas, are wicked tender and almost like tacos al pastor. Slather, bite, repeat.
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These vegan cauliflower tacos al pastor are jam-packed with flavor thanks to spicy cauliflower, pineapple, pickled red onions, avocado, and cashew queso. Who needs meat?! (Just kidding.)
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For these steak tacos, flavorful flank steak is marinated in a spicy paste of garlic, jalapeno, cumin, and cilantro and then seared until medium-rare. The tacos are garnished with pickled red onions and lime.
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This shredded beef taco bar is a build-your-own extravaganza including braised beef, pickled red onions, lime crema, and creamy coleslaw. Pile your favorites onto a warm tortilla, devour, and repeat.
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These ancho pork and potato tacos are a cheater’s way to have tacos on the table in just 45 minutes by relying on spice-rubbed pork chops and tender potatoes wrapped in corn tortillas.
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These shredded beef tacos are made with gently spiced and braised brisket that’s smothered, as tradition calls, with cheese, sour cream, pickled red onion, cabbage, lime, and cilantro. Behold, the best brisket tacos.
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These carnitas tacos are made with moist, tender pork shoulder, avocado, onion, tomatillo salsa, lime, and cilantro. Great party food for a crowd, a weekend dinner, or outdoor entertaining.
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These easy, healthy fish tacos are loaded with spiced grilled fish, tangy coleslaw, and a chipotle lime mayonnaise.
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These ancho short rib tacos sre made with a chile and red wine marinade, tortillas, and all the usual taco fixins.
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BBQ pulled pork tacos! The deliciously tender and slightly sweet pulled pork is heaped in a warmed tortilla with creamy chipotle slaw.
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An intoxicatingly spiced Yucatan pork dish is the basis for these tacos that boast layers of complex flavors in both the pulled pork and the salsa.
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These pulled pork tacos with apple-serrano slaw are made with shredded pork cooked with a blend of Indian spices. Taco Tuesday just got a whole heck of a lot more interesting.
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These avocado breakfast tacos are made with easy components—cheesy scrambled eggs, crisp bacon, cool avocado, and smoky chipotle salsa. So satisfying that they’ll be on repeat each weekend.
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These crispy mashed potato tacos, filled with crunchy cabbage, creamy mashed potatoes, fresh pico de gallo, and cilantro, are unconventional yet absolutely delicious.
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Turkey taco salad is an easy, gorgeously colorful, and healthy (we won’t tell, if you don’t!) dinner with a zingy cilantro-lime vinaigrette, and dressed with jicama, radishes, purple cabbage, and chiles.
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This sheet pan taco bake has seasoned ground beef, onions, tomatoes, cilantro, and Cheddar and Monterey Jack cheeses enveloped in tortillas and baked until crunchy and golden. Great party food for feeding a crowd.
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