The SECRET ingredient to the red marinade for CARNE ASADA | Amazing TACOS Recipe


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Today, I am going to share the secret to making that red marinade for carne asada. This is what the Mexican meat markets use.

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  1. Spice Rack
    Spice Rack says:

    Oh, Angelica, thank you for demystifying those big red sauced meat containers at the back of the Mexican grocery store and I have a market only a half mile away. I never knew what to do with it. I do now!!!!! I'm Anglo Indian and love the red chicken tikka kebabs…I have annatto seeds already and will make it really red now. I can't believe I had not thought of this! Will make tacos this weekend!!!!! — Ft. Worth, TX

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  2. Judith Loue
    Judith Loue says:

    Oh, annatto seeds! I made my own Sazon Tropical for a lentil chicken soup by grinding the annattos in my little spice grinder with the rest of the seasonings….yes, mama, it is good!

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  3. MsSixty?
    MsSixty? says:

    Oh my gosh: I have the paste version with the dye in it – I hadn't even thought to look for dye 😳
    😅
    Many thanks Angelica! I also needed to know more about how to use annato. My in-laws didn't use it, so I didn't learn about it. (We're from New Mexico)

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  4. Baking Nana's Kitchen
    Baking Nana's Kitchen says:

    Nice! I am lucky that every grocery store around me has a section of spices in the little cello packs. So much more reasonable – I just refill my jars. I make a similar marinade but also use canned jalapenos and the juice and the sliced onions go in the marinade.
    I cook them on my flat top (Blackstone) and do the tortillas on there too. Delicious.
    BTW – slicing against the grain, like she did, is key to tender meat.
    Thanks for the inspiration.

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  5. Gary DeWitt
    Gary DeWitt says:

    OMG, I'm drooling! Great idea with the onions and tortillas too.
    Achiote seeds are about as hard as a diamond, they take a long time to grind. I prefer the paste, which is available at Mexican markets and Amazon. Lime orange or lemon orange are typical of the Yucatan, there is a youtube somewhere posted by the director of "Once upon a time in Mexico" for puerco pibil, it's totally worth the time if you want a pork recipe with achiote. Search – once upon a time in mexico cochinita pibil – I've made this several times for Christmas family gatherings.

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