Steak Street Tacos Recipe

These juicy steak street tacos are made of pan-seared sirloin steak tossed in a Texas-style, street-taco rub, and folded into warm corn tortillas. You won’t believe how quickly these tacos can come together when using dry rub and a tender steak, as opposed to time-consuming marinades.

For the steak that will make up our taco filling, I use this Carne Asada Dry Rub Recipe, which I make in small batches, and also use in our Texas Steak Fajita Recipe. I created this dry rub seasoning blend, specifically for beef as an alternative to grocery store fajita seasoning, which is high in salt and not available throughout the world (where many of our readers live).

You’ll need to whip up a batch for yourself to complete this recipe, and it looks like this!

How To Make Steak Street Taco Filling

Sometimes, I’m not in the mood to wait very long for a delicious taco and when I need to get dinner on the table I go straight to sirloin steak. There is no need to get thick-cut steaks or spend the extra money on ribeye. Sirloin steak cooks hot and fast and it’s a great use of the thin sirloin slices that grocery stores keep pushing these days.

I’ll take the sirloin steak slices and chop them into 1/2 inch or so chunks, which gives more surface area for the carne asada rub to stick to.

Then just throw them in a bowl with my homemade carne asada rub and you’re ready to rock. You can cook this instantly or you can start it in the morning, go to work, and let it absorb the flavors until you are ready to make dinner.

How to Pan-Sear the Steak for Street Tacos

For steak street tacos in a dry rub, I cook the beef exactly how I pan sear a juicy steak. To achieve an excellent sear, (which is the flavorful, brown crust on meat), I fry the meat in 3 batches, remove the seared steak bites with a slotted spoon when they reach medium rare, and add more oil to the pan between batches, if needed. It’s also a good idea to use your heaviest and best sauté pan.

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The creamy green taco sauce that you see drizzled on top of the street tacos is my Creamy Jalapeno Sauce Recipe, which I’ve made previously on the blog. It’s an at home version of the spicy jalapeno puree you see at taco stands in Texas and throughout mexican cooking.