Whether you go with corn tortillas or flour tortillas, or pair your tacos with michelada or margarita, you're in for a spicy treat. Here are tacos for all tastes, from falling-apart tender beef or pork to golden fried fish and flavour-packed vegetarian.
Juicy and crispy pulled lamb combines with a smoky and smooth chipotle pepper creama, and a popping avocado and corn salsa for a well-rounded taco.
Chipotle lamb and corn salsa soft tacos. Source: Adam Roberts
Take a trip back to the ancient Mesoamerican cuisine (with the addition of kombu to the turtle beans to bring out the meaty umami flavour of them) with these bean tacos. A corn tortilla is the best pairing for some extra brightness in flavour.
Turtle beans with chipotle creamed corn. Source: Murdoch Books / Ben Dearnley
Pico de gallo is a simple salsa of tomatoes, onions and coriander that appears on just about every dinner table and condiment station in Mexico. This one has a little lime juice and spring onions added to it, for some extra zing to balance out the earthy, spice-marinated kangaroo.
Spicy kangaroo tacos with pico de gallo salsa. Source: K-ROO
Nothing impresses dinner guests like a taco. Second to that, nothing impresses dinner guests like blowtorching their food at the table.
Torched salmon tacos with mango salsa.
This spice-rubbed beef may have a long list of ingredients, but they’re ones you can easily source at your local grocer, like ground cumin and dried oregano. A long slow cook gives the spices a chance to develop and makes the beef fall-apart tender.
Beef tacos with slaw and guacamole. Source: The Chefs' Line
A poppyseed mayo and light flour batter combine for an elegant fish taco.
Fish tacos. Source: Prue Ruscoe
Flex your nose-to-tail skills by preparing some beef tongue tacos. Beef tongue has a rich steak-like flavour, and is poaching for an hour before being fried, leaving you with a meaty broth you can add to soups and stews.
Beef tongue tacos (tacos de lengua). Source: Michelle Crawford
Adobo-marinated pork and grilled pineapple are the fruity and flavourful hallmarks of these classic tacos, from Food Network star Pati Jinich. (You can get Pati's corn tortilla recipe here, too.)
Pati's tacos al pastor. Source: Pati's Mexican Table
Slow-cooked pork and home-made pickled onions are the stars of these tacos.
Cochinita pibil tacos. Source: Isaís Quijano
A crisp golden beer batter means these tacos won't last long on the table.
Fish tacos with flour tortillas (tacos de pescado). Source: SBS Food
Batter-less but bodacious, these fish fillets are marinated in a fresh and fragrant Baja Californian blend of olive oil, lime juice, coriander and cayenne pepper. You'll be dreaming of ocean swims and pink sunsets.
Fish tacos. Source: Sharyn Cairns
One of the greatest things about tacos is their ability to encompass many cuisines. Here, a fusion of Japanese-style pickles and Vietnamese-style marinated pork.
Pork tacos with pickled carrots and daikon. Source: Voyageur Press / Will Taylor
No meat is needed or missed with this hearty, smoky, textured and colourful taco.
Chipotle black bean tacos with jalapeño slaw. Source: Benito Martin
If you have people coming around and need a healthy, relaxed dining option, serve up all the components for these tacos and let your guests DIY.
Soft flour tortilla with bbq chipotle chicken and a lime and black bean salsa. Source: Petrina Tinslay
In a cuisine known for its long list of ingredients - with mole sauces featuring up to 40 - this recipe only requires five. Tomatoes cooked until they're jammy, then added to a fry-up of bacon, beef, onion, jalapeno and garlic. You'll need good-quality beef sirloin or tenderloin, as you're going to be just searing it for a few minutes.
Bricklayer tacos (tacos al albañil). Source: Pati Jinich
Puffy tacos are a fun change on regular soft tortillas, and add a deliciously rich and buttery angle. To make them, you prepare a dough with masa harina flour, then fry the dough until crisp and golden. They're a great option for entertaining, as the taco shells can be made ahead of time and stored in an air-tight container.
Puffy tacos with Napa chicken salad. Source: Cantina
Who said you had to wait for lunch or dinner to taco?
Breakfast tacos with avocado, scrambled eggs, corn salsa and hot sauce. Source: Andy and Ben Eat Australia, Food Network
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