Taco Seasoning

I also add a teaspoon of Mexican oregano. Crumble it with your hands to release the oils. It really adds another dimension. This is a really good recipe, although I've never added the cornstarch.

Cayenne ground pepper can give a more even heat if you prefer, over chili flakes. And try grinding your own mix of toasted ancho and chipotle chilis

Seems about right to me. We love home made tacos and use spices liberally. Do toast whole cumin seed and grind it fresh. Easy as pie and much more delightful. We also add corriander seed, toasted and ground. I love the comment to use rosemary. Will try!

Cornstarch! That will help the wetness of some recipes and is not something that occurred to me in my own recipe. I like to use a mortar and pestle with coarse salt and rosemary as the first step, and then mix in the remaining already powdered ingredients. The rosemary adds an earthy note, while being ground down makes the texture match.

Instead of corn starch, I add masa harina. It gives the mix a hint of corn flavor. Also sometimes I add a few tablespoons of Ro-tel tomatoes and green chiles.

I’m a fairly experienced cook but always get a tad confused by “chile powder”, especially as I’m in Canada and the only Chile powder I typically see is the generic supermarket stuff. And doesn’t that already have cumin in it? For this recipe, should I use the supermarket brand or should I visit my local Latin market and toast and grind dried Chilies? This looks good BTW. Not a sodium bomb like commercial taco seasonings.

Probably a sacrilege to purists, but I add a teaspoon of brown sugar. Doesn't make the mix sweet at all, and helps caramelize the meat or tofu.

Delicious! I’ll never buy taco seasoning in a packet again. Followed the recipe accordingly and added to a pound of ground beef. Some of the best tacos ever, I swear.

Has anyone tried this yet? It appears to be an awful lot of chile powder for 1 pound of meat.

What exactly is the chile powder in this recipe? In the UK this would mean ground dried chillies and 2 tablespoons of this would be lethally hot!

Added oregano, did not use powdered onion or garlic. Subbed about a third of the chli powder with chipotle chili powder and used less chili flakes (chipotle chili powder is spicy). Made about 3x recipe, used with 4# ground beef. One whole yellow onion, 4 cloves garlic, 2C beef broth. Spicy & yummy.

Use a different chili flake for some of the total: New Mexico, ancho, chipotle, pasilla--all are mild and tasty. There are plenty more.

Delicious! Taste as you go when adding to your dish. For our tastes, 3/4 recipe per pound was perfect.

Cornstarch helps thicken the meat mixture as the water is reduced during cooking.

Like another commented, I always add some Mexican oregano. Also, Trader Joe’s Chile Lime seasoning is a staple in Mexican cooking for me, just beware there’s already a fair amount of salt in it!