Veggie Sides for Tacos
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I create a huge salad (lettuce, toms, cucumber, peppers, celery, red onion) with lime juice and salt as the dressing, then add the taco components (in my case beans, sour cream, cheese and salsa) as the toppings on the salad. I then scoop some into the tortilla, and eat the rest "deconstructed".3
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I'm partial to cutting up bell peppers (like at least 2 and they can't be the green ones) when having tacos.0
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We do oven fries with our tacos on taco night.1
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@mfpdlc75
I think I will probably take your suggestion.
@MaltedTea. I love bell peppers. I wish I had bought some when I did my grocery shopping. That would have been good.
@Chef_Barbell
I think fries would be good for nachos instead of chips. I'm not sure I want to add extra carbs to the tacos. Thank you for your suggestion.
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I'll do roasted Poblano peppers and onions or a Mexican style coleslaw. I make fresh pico and avocado, so that also counts, plus a bunch of shredded lettuce(or spinach), chopped tomatoes, and cilantro.3
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@mfpdlc75
I think I will probably take your suggestion.
@MaltedTea. I love bell peppers. I wish I had bought some when I did my grocery shopping. That would have been good.
@Chef_Barbell
I think fries would be good for nachos instead of chips. I'm not sure I want to add extra carbs to the tacos. Thank you for your suggestion.
Lol most veggies have carbs. 🤷♀️ Good luck with dinner though.0 -
Chef_Barbell wrote: »@mfpdlc75
I think I will probably take your suggestion.
@MaltedTea. I love bell peppers. I wish I had bought some when I did my grocery shopping. That would have been good.
@Chef_Barbell
I think fries would be good for nachos instead of chips. I'm not sure I want to add extra carbs to the tacos. Thank you for your suggestion.
Lol most veggies have carbs. 🤷♀️ Good luck with dinner though.
@Chef_Barbell
I know, you're right. I felt silly after thinking about how I worded that. I just meant I was trying to figure how to add volume to the meal with less calories. I'm trying to include more non-starchy vegetables to my family's diet. Our go to is always bread, potatoes, rice.2 -
Chef_Barbell wrote: »@mfpdlc75
I think I will probably take your suggestion.
@MaltedTea. I love bell peppers. I wish I had bought some when I did my grocery shopping. That would have been good.
@Chef_Barbell
I think fries would be good for nachos instead of chips. I'm not sure I want to add extra carbs to the tacos. Thank you for your suggestion.
Lol most veggies have carbs. 🤷♀️ Good luck with dinner though.
@Chef_Barbell
I know, you're right. I felt silly after thinking about how I worded that. I just meant I was trying to figure how to add volume to the meal with less calories. I'm trying to include more non-starchy vegetables to my family's diet. Our go to is always bread, potatoes, rice.
Ahh that makes sense... sometimes I will roast root vegetables or do zucchini or green beans like a fry and use a taco style seasoning on them like cumin and Sazon.1 -
Guac and Mexican charred street corn and mexican cactus salad come to mind. Lighty pickled thinly sliced root vegetables might not be mexican but probably a flavour profile that compliments tacos. Have a look at the sides section of menus for non fast food Mexican restaurants for inspiration.1
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Black beans and baked plantains.2
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Pickled onions and radishes are good on tacos6
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I usually will have zucchini (roasted or sautéed depending on how I feel) or I do a side of fajita vegetables.3
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missysippy930 wrote: »Pickled onions and radishes are good on tacos
@missysippy930
I did not know. I'll have to look into this. Thank you.0 -
In the summer we usually do a crunchy Mexican coleslaw with cabbage, carrots, cilantro, and a lime and avocado oil dressing. In winter we usually sauté fajita vegetables.3
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Quick pickled veggies, carrot, Onions, cauliflower, broccoli, radish, peppers that aren’t too hot.
(Quick version of escabiche)1 -
Calabacitas goes well with tacos: Sautéed onion, corn, summer squash, and green chile3
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Jicama (with or without lime juice and chili powder), sweet potatoes (yea, starchy) cubed & roasted (seasoned or plain), nopales Mexicana, sweet corn (starchy again) with roasted red peppers.2
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Zucchini, carrot, eggplant. I grate each one of thoe ingredients and cook them in the pan. Proves to be delicious side dish.
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The ones I do that have been suggested:
Jicama
Nopales
Bell peppers and onions
The one that hasn't been:
Roasted whole okra
Also, if you would consider adding fruit, try a fruit salad (especially melons) with jicama included - topped with lime juice and chili powder. Our local Mexican restaurant used to serve this.2 -
Not authentic but a good match for the flavour profile of tacos would be Mexicanized SE asian fruit salad ingredients. Green papaya or green mango with cotija cheese, cilantro and a squeeze of lime.2
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