Trompo is more difficult to find but worth the search for its crispy edges, continuously created by the constantly rotating spit. Cooks pack plenty of meat into fat tacos. It hosts one table with two chairs and most days a spicy red pastor cooked to order on the griddle. At Puebla Tienda y Carniceria, maneuver the maze of cramped aisles to the tiny taqueria at the end of the butcher’s counter. Those immigrants-turned-restaurateurs infused Mexican flavors into their homeland recipes. When it’s cooked on a vertical spit, it’s called “trompo,” meaning “spinning top.” Lebanese immigrants escaping the collapsing Ottoman Empire in the late 1800s brought their shawarma to Mexico. Al pastor, meaning “shepherd’s style,” refers to the seasoned meat itself.
More: Indy pizza on list of best pizzas in every state 5. Put fresh cucumbers on this taco to balance the salt. I’d eat the slices like chips if my arteries could stand it. Lusty caramelized edges tint El Rey’s cecina. The salted and marinated beef is left to dry, which creates wowza beefy flavor, beer-begging saltiness and a sink-your-teeth-in chewiness. A frighteningly sharp knife slices the thinnest sheets from boneless beef cuts like sirloins or rounds. High School Road.Ĭecina means “dried meat,” and it takes a skilled butcher to make it.
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More: Downtown Indy taco + mac & cheese cafe opensĮl Rey del Taco, 3935 N. In Mexico, you’d get onions and bell peppers on tacos alambre, so ask for them at El Maguey. The taco’s ingredients are the same as those threaded on a skewer, “the wire,” for Mexican kebabs, also known as alambres.
It’s a crisp, cheesy, slightly chewy umami bomb. Grilled beef, cheese and chopped bacon fill tacos alambre at El Maguey. Here’s a glossary to start you on your way. Leave your credit and debit cards at home. Indianapolis hosts true taquerias where tacos in soft corn tortillas cost just two to three bucks each and arrive dressed with onions, cilantro and limes, plus red and green chili sauces on the side. They’re worth the adventure, and you don’t have to travel to Mexico to get them.
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Authentic Mexican tacos pack meats you might not have ever considered eating and aren't sure how to pronounce. Put down that fried chicken-wrapped Taco Bell mutant. Watch Video: Authentic tacos in Indianapolis
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