Chile Lime Pork Tacos...we have a winner!!!!

Ladies and Gentleman,

I do believe we have a winner in the delicious food making department.  I decided to try these on a whim and man oh man did they turn out delicious!!!  Definitely a repeat recipe!!!!

I got this recipe off of the clean eating magazine website.

Chile Lime Pork Tacos with Papaya Avocado Salsa

Ingredients
-10 1/2 oz pork tenderloin, trimmed and sliced into 1/2 inch thick strips
-1 small yellow onion, thinly sliced
-2 tsp chile powder (I used a chipotle chile powder to give it a smokey, semi spicy flavor)
-2 tsp olive oil
-3/4 tsp sea salt, divided
-1 green bell pepper, thinly sliced
-Juice of 1 lime, divided
-4 tomatillos, papery husks removed and flesh rinsed and chopped
-1 avocado, peeled, pitted, and chopped
-2 C peeled, seeded and cubed papaya
-4 tortillas

Instructions
1. In a large bowl, toss pork, onion, chile powder, oil and 1/2 tsp salt.  Heat a large nonstick skillet on medium.  Add pork mixture and cook, turning occasionally, until pork is almost cooked through, about 7 minutes.

2. Add pepper and garlic and saute, stirring often until pork is cooked through and pepper is tender-crisp.  Stir in half of lime juice and saute for one more minute.

3. Meanwhile, prepare salsa: in a medium bowl, combine tomatillos, avocado, papaya, remaining half of lime juice and 1/4 tsp salt.

4. Spoon pork into tortillas, serve with salsa.


My doctoring
I used southwestern flour tortillas.  I was planning to use corn so it would be a little healthier, but these just looked too good to pass up!

I also used chipotle chile powder instead of regular chile powder.  Chipotle is actually a smoke-dried jalapeno, so it has a slightly spicy, smokey flavor that is just divine.


I also ate some of the salsa on some tortilla chips and OH MAN!  It's so good!!!  It can definitely be used for other things besides going on tacos.

Also...what in the world is a TOMATILLO?!?!?!?!

A tomatillo is known as the Husk Tomato or Mexican Husk Tomato.  It is a plant of the nightshade family, related to the cape gooseberry.  Fruit should be firm and bright green for best tasting tomatillos.

As soon as I bit into my taco, I knew this recipe would need  a repeat performance.  I'm not even sure I would do any other kind of doctoring to it.  It's absolutely delicious as is.  Easy to make, less than $15 for ALL the ingredients and it made 6 tacos.  Absolutely delicious.

Let me know what you think!!!!!!

Until next time...eat, drink, laugh, and be merry!