Now when I was learning to cook I was extremely anxious of cooking meat because I didn’t want to potentially poison anyone. These loaded pork taquitos though are ridiculously easy to make for a noobie chef. When I say these loaded pork taquitos are loaded they were quite literally getting out of hand, I had meats and cheese falling everywhere when I was eating (or maybe I’m just a mess in general). If I wasn’t so lazy I would be making these on the daily.
If you want other meats wrapped in a tortilla click here.
Ingredients
- 10 Ounces Ground Pork
- 1 Yellow Onion
- 2 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp cumin
- 1 tsp chili powder
- Tex-Mex Paste
- 6 Tortillas
- ½ Cup Mexican Cheese Blend
- 3 tbsp Sour Cream
- 1 tsp Hot Sauce (or more I’m not your mom)
- 4 tbsp guacamole
- 1 Lime
- 1 Tomato
- 1 tbsp Olive Oil
- Salt
- Black Pepper
Instructions
- If you think you can prep fast enough, put a rack to the middle, preheat you’re oven to 425 degrees, and put foil lightly oiled on a baking sheet (I put mine in a cast iron skillet). Otherwise, mince your onion until you have 1 tbsp then thinly slice the rest. Dice tomato and zest lime, cutting it into quarters after.
- Mix garlic powder, cumin and chili powder to make a spice blend.
- Over medium-high heat, heat a large drizzle of oil in a pan and cook sliced onions for 3 minutes. Next add ground pork, breaking into pieces and cooking for 4-6 minutes until meat is browned and onion softens. Mix in spice blend, Tex-Mex paste, ⅓ cup water and simmer until thickened for about 2-3 minutes.
- Coat tortillas evenly on both with 1 tbsp of olive oil. Fill tortillas with about ¼ cup of pork and 1 tbsp of cheese blend. Roll and tuck the tortillas tightly until shaped like a taquito and place seam down on the baking sheet.
- Put the taquitos in the oven to bake for 8-12 minutes until golden brown and crispy.
- In one bowl combine tomato, minced onions, half the lime zest and lime juice from half the lime and salt to taste. In another bowl combine guacamole, sour cream, the other half of the lime zest and lime juice then salt and pepper to taste.
- Top your taquitos with pico de gallo, guac mixture and hot sauce.