Tacos - A favourite, What no SEASONING ??

Tacos are a favorite in our house, i like them because its a quick easy and tasty dinner. The boys like it cause they get to make their own.

We have to have the soft tortillas (wraps) as well as the hard ones, as one child likes hard the other likes soft (its easy enough to keep the left overs for next time or cook the tortillas on the fry pan with left over meat the next day).

What do you do when you are cooking Tacos but you don't have the seasoning ?
Quite often i forget to by taco seasoning when i make tacos, i have experimented over the years and i have come up with a combination of spices that brings you taco mince very close to the packet stuff, in fact i like it better as i know exactly whats going into it :).

Ingredients:
Onions, Celery, Beef Mince, Red Kidney Beans, Tomato Paste

Spices include:
Garlic, Ground Cumin, Turmeric, Sugar, Paprikaa (the mild kind).

You could include chilli, maybe a few other spices but this is the basics.

Generally I add the spices after the onions and meet have browned, i don't measure just give a good few shakes of the dry spices out of the jar, generally you need a bit more in quantity of cumin and tumeric than the other stuff. Sugar maybe about a tablespoon. I sometimes add a squirt of tomatoe sauce for good measure.

Taste as you go, if you feel its lacking add a bit more. You will get to know what you need to add to bring up the flavour.

Normally i do some guacamole but i didn't have avocados so i missed out on that this time.

Now you know what to do if you don't have taco seasoning. Probably save you a bit of money as well those taco shells etc all add up :)