Crispy Oven Beef Tacos with Creamy Avocado Cilantro Lime Sauce
Crispy oven-baked ground beef tacos made without frying! Seasoned beef, crunchy tortillas, and creamy lime sauce for an easy weeknight dinner.
Servings: 5 servings/2 tacos
Calories: 640kcal
Equipment
- 1 Medium Skillet
- Oil Basting Brush
- Blender or Food Processor
Ingredients
- 1 pound Ground Beef
- ½ cup Purple Onion chopped (about ½ of a medium onion)
- 3 tablespoons Taco Seasoning
- ¼ cup Tomato Paste
- 8 to 10 Four or Corn Tortillas your preference
- Olive Oil for brushing tortillas
- 1 ½ cups Sharp Cheddar Cheese grated
- 2 Avocados
- ¼ cup Sour Cream
- 2 Limes
- ¼ cup Cilantro chopped plus more for garnish
- 1 tablespoon Pickled Jalapeños sliced
- Pinch of Salt
- Taco sauce if desired for topping
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- In a skillet brown ground beef. Drain meat and stir in onion, taco seasoning, and tomato paste and cook several minutes longer until onion is starting to be translucent. Add ¼ cup to 1 cup of water if mixture is too thick, set aside.
- On a parchment paper lined baking sheet, arrange the tortillas so they aren’t touching and brush on both sides with olive oil.
- Spoon taco meat on one half of each tortilla, making sure not to transfer any of the excess oil.
- Top meat with grated cheese, fold the tortilla in half.
- Bake in oven for about 15 minutes or until golden and crisp, turning once about halfway through cooking when bottom side is golden brown.
- While tacos are baking, make crèma in a blender or food processor. Slice one avocado and blend it with sour cream, juice of 1 lime, cilantro, jalapeños and a pinch of salt.
- Slice remaining avocado and cut remaining lime into wedges.
- Top crispy tacos with lime wedges, sliced avocado, chopped cilantro, taco sauce or avocado cilantro lime crèma as desired.
Notes
This recipe works with both flour and corn tortillas; for the photos, we used flour tortillas.
Flipping the tacos halfway through cooking helps them to cook evenly, it also helps the tacos stay closed as they tend to open back up if they are not flipped.
The avocado cilantro lime crème can also be served on the side as a dip for the tacos, instead of as a topping, if preferred.
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Nutrition
Calories: 640kcal | Carbohydrates: 35g | Protein: 29g | Fat: 45g | Saturated Fat: 17g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 19g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 105mg | Sodium: 537mg | Potassium: 948mg | Fiber: 10g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 948IU | Vitamin C: 23mg | Calcium: 329mg | Iron: 3mg