Lamb tacos recipe & content provided by Joshua Weissman
I know people who don’t like bacon, but have yet to meet someone who isn’t a taco person. There is just something so satisfying a nice flexible tortilla brimming with tender chunks of meat. While keto tacos are a less common take on Mexican food, they are a perfect grain- and gluten-free dish.
Lamb is such underrated meat. It has a great fatty texture and is chock full of exciting flavors, making it perfect for keto tacos. This lamb is slowly cooked until it becomes fall-off-the-bone tender. Then it’s pulled, stuffed into cauliflower tortillas and served with crunchy radishes and zingy cilantro.
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You can have an incredibly healthy meal that is also jam packed full of flavor. Serve these keto tacos with a fresh salad, quick pickled vegetables or Bulletproof guacamole for a beautiful, hearty meal.
Lamb Keto Tacos With Cauliflower Tortillas
Start to Finish: 3 hours (30 minutes active)
Keto Tacos Ingredients:
- 2 pounds lamb stew meat or lamb shoulder cut into 1-inch chunks
- 3 cups chicken stock
- 1 bunch thyme
- 2 tablespoons avocado oil or ghee
- Salt to taste
Cauliflower Tortilla Ingredients:
- 1 head of cauliflower, broken into florets
- 2 eggs
- Generous pinch of salt
- Avocado oil for greasing
- Radishes to garnish, sliced thinly
- Chopped cilantro to garnish
Instructions:
- Heat avocado oil in a large heavy-bottomed pot over medium-high heat. Season lamb generously with salt, then sear for 1-2 minutes per side.
- Add chicken stock and thyme, and bring liquid to a light simmer. Once simmering, cover with a lid and let cook for 2 hours or until fork tender.
- While lamb cooks, prepare cauliflower tortillas. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Roughly chop cauliflower florets and pulse in a food processor, working in batches, until it is pulverized into fine crumbles.
- Grease a baking sheet lightly with oil. Spread cauliflower on the sheet and bake for 10 minutes, or until completely cooked.
- Once cauliflower is cool enough to handle, place it in a clean dry kitchen towel and wring out excess moisture (be careful not to burn yourself). The cauliflower should look similar to masa dough. Add to a bowl with eggs and salt, and mix to combine.
- Scoop 1/4 cup of your dough onto a parchment-lined baking sheet and spread it in a circle using the back of a spoon. Repeat until no dough remains.
- Bake tortillas for 25 minutes, flipping once after 10 minutes of cooking.
- To serve keto tacos, lightly shred lamb and place on cauliflower tortilla along with some of the cooking juices, sliced radishes, and cilantro.
Serves: 4-6
Nutritional Information (Per Serving):
- Calories: 573
- Protein 57g
- Total Fat 26g
- Saturated Fat 8g
- Cholesterol 278mg
- Sodium 839mg
- Total Carbs: 11.85g
- Dietary Fiber 5.25g
- Total Sugars 5.75g
- Net carbs: 6.6g
- Potassium 1436mg
- Vitamin D 8mcg
- Calcium 98mg
- Iron 7mg
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