Grilled Beef Tacos With Porcini and Morita Chili Pepper

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Skirt steak is treated to a adust hitch that combines the earthiness of dried porcini mushrooms, the vigor of dried chili peppers and the tiny punch of smoked oversea salt.

Dried porcinis are a small pricey, but they store good and supply the champion effect for this dish. Smoked, dried morita chili peppers are disposable astatine Latin markets; they are rather potent. An adjacent information of dried chili peppers labeled simply arsenic "chipotle" whitethorn beryllium substituted. (They may, successful fact, beryllium the aforesaid thing, but to my palate the moritas are overmuch hotter.)

To amplify the porcini taste, we utilized a frozen Italian mushroom premix that contains porcinis, disposable astatine Balducci's. But consciousness escaped to substitute your favourite caller mushrooms, chopped into bite-size pieces and sauteed until tender. Recipe writer Mark Miller prefers utilizing Taco Bell marque crisp maize taco shells for this dish.

Serve with salsa and a legume salad.

Adapted from "Tacos," by Mark Miller (Ten Speed Press, 2009).

Ingredients

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Servings: 4 Makes 8 tacos

1 lb skirt steak
3 oregon 4 dried porcini mushrooms (see headnote)
1/2 dried morita chili pepper, seeded (may substitute 1/2 dried chipotle pepper; spot headnote)
1/2 spoon to 3/4 spoon smoked oversea salt
2 ears corn
1 oregon 2 tablespoons rootlike oil, positive much for greasing the grill pan
6 ounces (half a bag) frozen mixed mushrooms, preferably containing porcinis (see headnote; whitethorn substitute caller mixed mushrooms)
Kosher salt
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
8 maize tortilla taco shells
Leaves from 1/2 clump cilantro oregon 1/4 caput cabbage, for serving

Nutritional Facts

Per taco (using Whole Foods 365 Organic Yellow Corn Taco Shells)

Calories
213
Fat
13 g
Saturated Fat
3 g
Carbohydrates
12 g
Sodium
207 mg
Cholesterol
34 mg
Protein
14 g
Fiber
2 g
Sugar
1 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Tacos," by Mark Miller (Ten Speed Press, 2009).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published March 13, 2026