Dubai Taco

Trust me, if you like meat, you want to make this. I worked up with a simplified food-processor version that makes it easy. And the flavors are OUT OF THIS WORLD.

This originated as an Egyptian street food, but this is the taco version. Simply enough, put all the following ingredients into a food processor (you could mix it by hand as well).

I blended up the onions, bell pepper and chili’s first. Then I added the rest.

Quick note, I finally bought a kitchen scale so I could follow some recipes better. Below is for 2 lbs of meat. I used one lb of 85/15 grass-feed beef. So use half of everything else below. My goal is to add more specific ingredient amounts. Up to now I’ve been pretty loose.

1/2 kg white onion small diced
80 g green chili chopped
140 g green bell Pepper chopped (I used yellow)
30 g garlic chopped
20 g instant coffee or ground coffee (I used ground)
10 g Beef or chicken stock powder (I used BTB)
15g black pepper
2g cardamon powder
4 g nutmeg
4 g cinnamon
6 g Smoked Paprika
20 g Baking Powder

I heated up my Blackstone griddle, applied avocado oil and put down about a cup of the above mix. Maybe 3/4 cup. On this I placed a medium sized tortilla and pressed it down with my grill press till it came to the edge of the tortilla. I let this cook in a medium/high heat till it was crispy on the bottom, like a smash-burger.

I flipped this and put on two slices of white American Cheese. I accidentally bought a garlic/herb version, but it turned out fine.

My sauce is my standard, mayo, some mustard and hot sauce. This goes on top of the cheese.

Once the tortilla was toasted, I folded them and pulled them off the grill. The flavor was out-of-this-world. While cooking them, I also cooked a cob of butter/peppered corn under a cloche with a fair amount water to steam it up.