These Carne Asada Soft Tacos with Guacamole and Corn are something you’d find at a Mexican Restaurant! These flavorful beef tacos are a party for your taste buds!
Restaurant Style Carne Asada Soft Tacos with Guacamole and Corn
It’s almost Cinco de Mayo! Any excuse to make Mexican food, is a great celebration to me!
I developed a simple and completely flavorful marinade for carne asada beef or flank steak, that marinates for an hour, is grilled for a few minutes and presto, restaurant style carne asada tacos are ready! I hope you guys can find this tortilla bread that I have pictured below. It makes the best soft tacos ever, no joke. If your grocery store carries them, it will be right by the other tortillas. I am crossing my fingers for you!! If you don’t have any luck, use a traditional taco size flour or corn tortillas 🙂
Be sure to take a peek at my Creamy Salsa and Black Bean Nachos that I developed for Kraft as well 🙂
Break out your sombreros, maracas, chips and salsa, it’s Mexican night!!
Left: Tia Rosa Tortilla Bread, onion, garlic, avocado, carne asada beef (flank steak), red bell pepper, ground cumin, corn, olive oil and lime juice
Here’s the beef, it will come in one rectangular piece that you will later slice 🙂
How to Make The Best Beef Tacos
Let’s start the marinade. Chop your onion and garlic.
Add some lime juice to olive oil.
Now add your cumin, salt and pepper. Give it a good whisk.
Grab a big ziplock bag and add your onions/garlic, beef, and marinade.
Give it all a good swish inside the bag, zip it up and let marinade for about an hour.
I tossed mine on my grill pan, but feel free to use the ol’ outside grill if you’d like.
After about 3 minutes, give it a flip and grill for another 3 minutes 🙂
Always let your meat rest for a good 5 minutes, it brings all of those juices back throughout the beef.
Use a sharp or serrated knife and cut thin slices on the bias like I’ve done here 🙂 Oh and lick your fingers to get a preview, this stuff is delish!
It’s not a taco without some guacamole right?! I like my guacamole simple with just some lime juice, salt and pepper, but get as crazy as you’d like 🙂
I mixed a half can of corn with 1/2 cup diced red peppers for some pretty color and texture to put on top of the tacos.
Here you have a darn good carne asada soft taco, dig in!
Restaurant Style Carne Asada Soft Tacos with Guacamole and Corn
Equipment
- Stove
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tablespoons lime juice
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 pound carne asada beef or flank steak
- 1/2 cup finely chopped white onion
- 2 cloves minced garlic
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 2 avocados peeled and seeded
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 3/4 cup yellow corn
- 1/2 cup red bell pepper finely diced
- 4 soft tortilla bread
Instructions
- Place oil, lime juice, cumin, salt, and pepper into a medium bowl, whisking to combine. Place beef, onions, and garlic into a large zip top bag and pour marinade inside bag. Close top of bag and with hands, massage beef with marinade to coat evenly. Place in refrigerator and marinade for 1 hour.
- Heat oil in grill pan over medium heat. Grill beef until browned, about 3 minutes per side. Transfer to a cutting board to rest for 5 minutes. Cut thin slices against the grain or on the bias.
- Place avocado, lime juice, salt, and pepper into a medium bowl. Mash with a fork until well combined.
- Place corn and peppers into a medium bowl, mixing to combine.
- Place beef slices, a dollop of guacamole, and a spoon of corn and peppers into soft tortilla bread. Serve warm.
Nutrition
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Have a fabulous week! Come back soon 🙂
Awesome good that I want to eat now. And your preparation was well presented.So who can say no not to crave for your asada. I already added you to my favorites. Good luck!
I made these tonight for Cinco de Mayo and they are absolutely delicious and so easy! Thank you for the wonderful recipe. (I also have the same question about grill pan cleanup that a previous “Julie” posted. Any tips?)
Awesome Julie, so glad to hear you enjoyed the recipe! As far as clean up, put about 1 cup of water into the grill pan and boil for 5 minutes or so. This will loosen all those bits that get stuck to the pan. Hope this helps!!
Thanks for the tip! I appreciate it.
Pick me up off the floor. They look utterly delicious. I’m not sure I’ll be able to get the wraps you have here, though I’ll have a look (we live on an island in Scotland, so only have 2 grocery stores to choose from 🙂 Also, the beef…. I’ll have to check online what we’d call this cut.
Desperate to try this….
Wow, Scotland sounds so exciting 🙂 Hope you can get a hold of these ingredients!!
Pretty, pretty, pretty. Now if I could just eat one (or five)! Tying it up with a corn husk is a lovely touch, too.
Thank you Sasha, I ate my fair share that’s for sure 🙂
These look amazing Jenny! And the photo are absolutely gorgeous! I’m going to have to keep my eyes open for the tortilla bread. Sounds delicious!
Thank you Heather, you’ve got to try that tortilla bread, it’s incredible!
Oh just beautiful. I bet delish too! Must keep an eye out for that bread.
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Hope you can find it Jackie! Good luck 🙂
Oh my gosh, girl.. These are absolutely gorgeous! I’m going to keep a lookout for that tortilla bread! 🙂
Any tips for easy cleanup of your grill pan? I have a small grill pan like yours, but I never use it (*gasp*) because the cleanup is such a pain. (i.e., scraping crusty bits off the pan for hours). Any ideas on what I’m doing wrong? Thanks, and I love, love, love your recipes.
Just in time for Cinco de Mayo! Thank you for this tasty looking recipe. I enjoy your blog and am always looking to it for inspiration.
Your photo of this post from tastespotting brought me here however it was your photo of the ingredient list that prompted me to comment. It looks like you have a Bosch and a kitchen aid. My third kitchen aid recently died and as I promised myself, I replaced it with a Bosch…I make a lot of bread. But I’m kind of missing my kitchen aid. Do you find that you use both or does one go unused compared to the other?
I have to say I use my Kitchen Aid far more than my Bosch, however I love my Bosch for bread making and also for making large batch of cookies. There’s no comparison it’s better for those things. Not sure if I could decide between the two 🙂 Best of luck to you!
It looks delicious!!!!
Oh my, I have never seen tortilla bread. That looks like a taco from my dreams. I am totally making this next week!
Wow, looks so good. I have not seen that tortilla bread before. I am going to start looking for it!
JamieS@ Scattered Thoughts of a Crafty Mom
I’m going to have to look for that tortilla bread next time I go to the grocery! They look delicious!
YUM, Jenny! I love anything Mexican. I wish I was having this for dinner.
These look soooo delicious! Wish I had this for dinner tonight!!
my mouth is DEFINITELY watering right now. mmmmm i love me some mexican food.
These DO look restaurant style! Love this.
Perfect for Cinco de Mayo!
what great little purcels of flavor: que buenos! 🙂
As a meat and avocado lover, I am all over this! Perfect for warm weather outdoor parties 🙂 xo
Gorgeous clicks too!
Looks very tasty. I love corn in tacos too! Your tutorial pictures are really good, count me impressed!
Perfect for Cinco de Mayo!
Yum! I have a big ripe avocado just waiting to be cut into and I think this is the perfect recipe to use it in 🙂
Wow, that looks amazing. I would definitely be making this for Thursday if I didn’t have 10 pounds of chicken I needed to use up…
For the love. I’ll take Mexican anyday. But THIS looks especially incred!
How I love this already and I haven’t even tasted it. I love how having my birthday the day before Cinco de Mayo I get to enjoy all kinds of great food! Can’t wait to try this one out myself!
I think I might be making this for cinco de mayo but with chicken of course
I love everything about these- especially that tortilla bread! I had to crack up at your little ties around your tacos though… I had that same problem trying to photograph my fish tacos the other day when I used thick corn tortillas. They wouldn’t stay closed for my photo! I opted for a toothpick. Didn’t think of raffia 🙂
We LOVE carne asada in our house. Although we’ve got a carneceria not far from us that packs it in fresh marinade for us. Cheating? Sure, but it’s delicious!
This looks fabulous! I’ll have to add this to my shopping list today!
love how you tied them. so cute
Wow, awesome recipe! This might have to be my cinco de mayo dinner!
HA! love the “here’s the beef” line…awesome 🙂 and i love how you tied up the taco with the husk! such a beautiful touch!
These sound so delish. Something we would surely love!
Jenny they look wonderful. I can totally see the “soft” in the soft taco. Love how you tied the tortillas. Makes photographing them easier, huh. And how about gorgeous photos…wow!