Best Mexican Taquitos Tuna Recipes

HOMEMADE TAQUITOS

Steps:

• For the Slow Cooker: Season roast with salt and pepper. Add chili powder, garlic, cumin, minced onion, beef broth and salsa. Cook on LOW for 7-8 hours or until meat is tender and shreds easily.
• Remove roast to a plate and shred the meat. Discard any large pieces of fat. Return to the pot to keep warm.
• For the Instant Pot: Season roast with salt and pepper. Cut it into four large pieces and place in instant pot. Add chili powder, garlic, cumin, minced onion, beef broth and salsa. Cook on manual/high pressure for 50 minutes. When timer beeps allow the pressure to naturally release before removing the lid (about 15-20 minutes).
• Remove roast to a plate and shred the meat. Discard any large pieces of fat. Return to the pot to keep warm.
• Assembly:
• If frying, add about 1 1/2 inches of oil to a large skillet and heat to medium-high.
• Drain beef and set aside. Heat a non-stick griddle over medium high heat. Cook tortillas for about 15 - 30 seconds on each side until soft and pliable. Remove tortillas to a plate covered with tinfoil to keep them warm and pliable.
• Spoon about 2 tablespoons of the meat mixture into a line at one end of a tortilla and tightly roll it up. Use a toothpick to secure it.
• Fried Taquitos:
• Your oil should be hot (the tortillas should sizzle immediately when you put them in).
• Fry the rolled tacos in small batches, for a few seconds on each side, rotating them as they cook, until they are golden and crispy on all sides. Place them on a paper towel lined plate.
• Baked Taquitos:
• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Spray the tops of the tacos with cooking spray , or brush them lightly with oil. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until the shells are crispy.
• Serve taquitos with guacamole, shredded cheese, salsa and sour cream.

MEXICAN TAQUITOS (TUNA)

Steps:

• Heat 1 cup of veg oil in a frying pan.
• Drain all water or oil from tuna.
• Once your veg oil is hot, fry the corn tortillas giving 3 seconds on each side then put on a plate flat.
• Remember every 6 oz can make 7 taquitos.
• After frying ALL your corn tortillas let them cool for 5 mins so you don't burn your finger tips.
• Don't turn off veg oil pan.
• Once cooled, place about a regular scrapie marker size of tuna on your corn tortilla.
• Roll up and place the taquito in the tongs and place in veg oil flat with the end of the corn tortilla faces down so that it don't open.
• Let cool and serve with your dip sauce or my chili pancane.

MEXICAN TAQUITOS (FLAUTAS)

Steps:

• To make the sauce: Add tomatoes, onion, garlic, salt, bullion cube, and chiles to a blender; blend until smooth.
• In a sauce pan heat 1-2 teaspoons of vegetable oil over medium heat.
• Add sauce and simmer about 5-10 minutes.
• Reserve 1/4 cup of sauce for filling.
• To make filling: Mix shredded meat and reserved sauce together will.
• Heat vegetable oil for frying in a deep fryer or tall saucepan to 350-375°F.
• To make taquitos: Wrap 12 of the tortillas in a kitchen towel and put in microwave for 2 minutes. Keep tortillas wrapped in towel while making taquitos so they don't dry out.
• Place one tortilla on the counter in front of you and add shredded meat mixture in a line across the tortilla on the side closest to you, but not all the way on the edge (about 2-3 tablespoons of mixture. Begin to roll tortilla around mixture, rolling away from you (try to roll as tightly as possible so that the filling doesn't fall out during frying). Taquito should resemble a fat cigar (the sides are not folded in--they are just left open). Pierce with a toothpick through the center of taquito to keep from unrolling.
• Add each taquito to oil as you go or they will dry out and crack.
• Do not crowd oil too much. I usually cook about 6-7 at a time.
• Feel taquitos with tongs as they cook. When they are hard, remove and drain on paper towels (about 5 minutes). I usually line a large bowl with paper towels and drain all of the taquitos vertically so that all of the excess oil can drain out.
• When those 12 tortillas are done, heat up the remaining 12 in the same towel and repeat. The reason I don't heat up all 24 at the same time is because the stack is so thick that the top and bottom few tortillas dry out and the middle ones are not cooked enough and will crack when you try to roll them.
• When all of the taquitos are finished, put as many as you want per serving on a plate (I usually serve 5-6 per person); top with sauce.
• Add shredded lettuce and sliced onion.
• Top that with a few spoonfuls of sour cream (or if you are like me, more than a few).
• Sprinkle with queso fresco.
• Yum!