Thai-Style Beef Tacos.
Goodbye fun weekend stuff.
Goodbye two bottles of wine. Goodbye truffle fries. Goodbye accidental on purpose three hour afternoon nap. Goodbye entire bag of pita chips I ate at 4PM yesterday. Goodbye massive burger on buttery buns. Goodbye dumb movie marathons. Goodbye SPIKED MARSHMALLOW FLUFF MILKSHAKE.
Uhhhh OMG.
But no fear, I’ll see you in five days.
Maybe two, since I possess no self control. You can probably find me on the couch.
Helllllo Monday.
You’re cute. Sometimes.
I’ll allow you to be delicious.
And seriously… this is one of the most delicious dinners we’ve had since… well… I made the last delicious dinner we had.
Growing up, we ate tacos every single week, but anything other than ground beef was considered sacrilegious in our non-cultured culinary bubble. These days I still make tacos at least once every two seven days, but the beef rarely makes an appearance. I’m all about the chicken or shrimp. Or just the guac and the cheese. Or um… just the margaritas. Specifically the salt.
Oh and the tequila.
Now? I’m all about the steak. Alllll about it. My husband just died when I said that. It’s like he put on Kate Beckinsale-ified goggles when looking at me.
Yesssss.
The icing on the cake here is the crushed peanuts. They bring an extra pop of flavor that I just want to eat with a spoon. Chomp chomp. I could NOT get enough. I had two for lunch. Then two for a snack. Then at like 10PM, two more for a… snack? Worth it.
Thai Beef Tacos
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 pounds flank steak
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon pepper
Marinade
- 3/4 cup light, canned coconut milk
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- 4 garlic cloves, minced or pressed
- 2 teaspoons freshly grated ginger
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons freshly chopped cilantro
- 1/3 cup sweet chili sauce
Quick Mango Salsa
Tacos
- 1 teaspoon canola oil
- 8-10 corn tortillas
- 1/2 cup sweet chili sauce
- 1/4 cup peanuts, chopped
- green leaf or romaine + fresh cilantro for topping
Instructions
- Sprinkle flank steak with salt and pepper. Combine coconut milk, sesame oil, chili sauce, garlic, ginger, sugar and cilantro in a bowl and whisk. Add flank steak to a ziplock bag or a shallow baking dish and pour marinade overtop. Refrigerate and let sit for 6-24 hours.
- When ready to prepare, remove steak from fridge and let sit for 20-30 minutes. In a bowl, combine mango, shallot, jalapeno, salt, sugar and pepper, mix thoroughly, then set aside. Heat a large oven-safe skillet (like cast iron) over high heat. At the same time, preheat the broiler in your oven. (You can also grill the steak if you wish.) Using a pastry brush, brush oil onto the skillet so there is only a very thin layer. Remove steak from marinade with kitchen tongs, placing in the skillet. Sear on both sides for 2-3 minutes. Remove skillet and place is the oven directly under the broiler. Cook for 3-4 minutes, then flip and cook for 3-4 minutes more. This resulted in medium-medium well meat for us, but is totally dependent on the thickness of your steak and your desired doneness. Our steak was about an inch thick.
- Remove skillet from over, and place steak on a cutting board to rest for 15-20 minutes. At this time, assemble your tortillas (warm them if desired), salsa, extra chili sauce for drizzling and cilantro. After the steak has rested, slice it into thin strips. Assemble tacos as desired and eat!
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149 Comments on “Thai-Style Beef Tacos.”
My husband hates when I make steak because I SUCK at making steak. seriously – he’s rather me give him some sort of veganized dish that resembles steak. And then he gets mad at me because I’m a vegetarian. The end.
Your tacos looks delish! It will be a good Monday!! I’m mad at myself. Trader Joe’s has flank steak, but sold them for $20.00 for two pounds and I thought nah, after debating for like 5 minutes! Now I regret it. I guess I have to go back get it now! Wonderful recipe!
It would have been awkward growing up to eat anything other than ground beef for tacos in my house too- but I think we all could have gone for this! Mmmm! ……..I’m a fan of the tequila too! And the salt! And the lime!!!
These sound incredible! And if they induce Kate Beckinsale-ified goggles when my husband looks at me, all the better! ;) Haha!
Oh love the mango salsa! Also kind of wish I had your weekend:-)
yum!! I love any sort of tacos (specifically non ground beef tacos). Thanks Jess, this has been added to our menu! :)
Ahhh, I cannot believe the weekend went by so quickly. Hmph…
At least you have these tacos to look forward to. They look fabulous! :-D
genius. pure genius. never leave me
looks like an incredible dinner! i love all the flavors going on. mango salsa is sooooo delicious!
Yummers!!
I love making tacos so I can eat salsa and guac!
Pretty sure that’s usually my only motive for making tacos 97% of the time.
Drool! Ready for a plate of these for breakfast. The flavors sound amazing. I’m all for steak and mango. Yummy!
DROOL! i’m already making your tilapia tacos tomorrow night…i’ll just stop by the store and get stuff for these beef ones on wednesday!
I love everything about this taco! I can’t wait to try this recipe!
These are some really tasty sounding tacos!
Ironically, I have almost everything to make this plate of goodness except the flank steak and mango.
I see a grocery trip store in my future.
I love things injected with extra flavor, I’m going to go the whole 24 hours on the marinade. I’m such a wild woman!
I hear ya sister. I’m the same way!
Just reporting back to say seriously delicious!
We loved them so much I’ve got 6 chicken breasts soaking in that amazing marinade for Thai Chicken Tacos!
I’m pretty sure you could marinate an old shoe in that stuff and it was taste awesome. LOL!
Thanks for another keeper Jessica!
Jessica these look amazing! We make flank tacos often…. the Thai Beef sounds sooooooo much better! That mango salsa looks like perfection!!
I can get some pretty killer tacos here in San Diego, but now I want to make these ones exactly.
Sounds like you hit burgatory or BRGR over the weekend, and I right? : D
You are right. :) BRGR!
These look insane, in the best way possible! I love making steak tacos with carne asada that I buy from Mexican markets. Steak tacos + margaritas = heaven.
Oh Thai flavours in a taco? Love it!
Just call that 10pm snack an Oscar viewing party. It’s klassy. These look like such a party of textures! Plus, I’m a sucker for mango anything.
That’s EXACTLY what it was!
Jess, it’s people like you that make my Mondays less painful. These sound awesome! :)
I love you.
Oh wow. You know I am a sucker for soft tacos and these look amazing. wonderful pics!
Seeing so many amazing beef recipes floating around lately…. makes me want a BURGER! ;)
Weird! We went to BRGR this weekend and inhAYELED the Tex-AZ and the truffle fries too.
And now I need to get these all up in my mouth.
Oh snap! You might just get me to try some beef, you know the actual “real” kind. My mom used to make my sister and I beef stroganoff from the hamburger helper box when I was younger. I am forever scarred.
I will be making these tonight. Last night was your homemade granola bars……tonight tacos. Love, LOVE this site!! :)
Thanks Robin!
so pretty! How do you not eat your food while you’re photographing?? I’d have like a bit or two missing out of those tacos. Thats why I only have a photo or two up on my blog haha
Hahaha yes, sometimes it’s really hard. I try not to work on the weekends but I did make these when my husband was home and the time I spent photographing was pure torture for him.
Tacos have definitely been a weekly staple in my life since I was a wee lass. Oh look, I’m Irish today. But these look divine. How have I not used steak in tacos before? I’m about to step up my taco game in a big way. Many thanks.
Taco perfection. Oh my goodness! Thank you so much for adding some humor and spice into this least favorite day of the week.
Mmmm…Kate Beckinsale! I mean, Thai Beef Tacos! Can’t I have both? These tacos are going on the menu pronto! Thanks!
I just told my hubby yesterday I really want some sliced steak on top of salad..but he just looked at me funny. Maybe if I put his in a taco like yours he’ll feel my cravings too. These look sooo good.
these photos are just lovely! :) I don’t like being allergic to mango :(
ANything with mango = love!!
delish!
These look stunning! I’ll definitely add them onto my to-make foodie list! Thanks for sharing.
Don’t mind if I do! Hello yum.
Definitely snack worthy! And so much better for you than the 3 peanut butter s’more cookies I was munching on late last night…
I love beef tacos, I can safely say that beef is my favorite meet, these look very pretty!
yummm, what type of sweet chili sauce did you use? I can get a Thai type–is that what you had?
Thanks!
Yes! We use the sweet thai chili sauce from Trader Joe’s. So good.
Tacos mean chips + guac, so I’m all about these.
These look great! Love the flavors. Adding to this week’s menu!
At least Monday is delicious…no doubt about that. I’m drooling all over my desk over these flavors.
Don’t think this is creepy… But, I love you! I am now craving these tacos for breakfast! I must pick up the ingredients this weekend and make them!
Lately, I’ve been craving beef like woah (twss). This is such a fun way to get my fix but still have some good flavors with it rather than the whole meat/potatoes/boring green vegetable dinner plate.
Every once in a while, there’s just nothing better than a good old steak. These looks amazing.
Oooo, those DO look good. I’m especially loving the idea of the mango salsa!
I know I’ve said this before, but your photos are seriously amazing. I normally hate photos of meat (love to eat it, hate to look at it. Weird.) but that one up there of the steak is kind of driving me wild.
The mango, the marinade, the fact that you pud in greens before you added the filling so the bread/wrap didn’t get all soggy..very smart! Great idea & I Love Mango!
Yummmmmmmmmn
Peanuts on steak tacos?! I’m in love with you. And while we’re at it…I might as well ask you to be Meeker’s new wife because he is going to WIG out when I make these for him.