If you’re fortunate enough to live near a Torchy’s Tacos, then you know how delicious and creative their Taco of the Month can be. The Bottle Rocket Taco is one of my favorite monthly tacos and this is my rendition of it. Habanero fried shrimp in a warm flour tortilla, topped with crumbled cojita cheese, cabbage slaw, candied jalapeños, chopped cilantro and drizzled with their Diablo sauce, which you can make at home or buy at select Whole Foods locations.
The Bottle Rocket Taco is the perfect combination of sweet and spicy. It’s so flavorful and will become one of your go-to types of tacos if you try making them at home. Your friends and family will request these for Taco Tuesday every chance they get!
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Bottle Rocket Taco
Course: TacosCuisine: Tex-MexDifficulty: Easy4
servings30
minutes20
minutesIngredients
- Habanero Battered Fried Shrimp:
1/2 lb 1/2 medium-sized shrimp, peeled and deveined
1/4 tsp 1/4 Behrnes Habanero Pepper Salt
1/2 tsp 1/2 Tony Chachere’s Original Creole Seasoning
3/4 cup 3/4 all-purpose flour
2 2 large eggs
1/2 cup 1/2 plain dry bread crumbs
1/2 cup 1/2 Panko bread crumbs
1/2 cup 1/2 flour
vegetable oil, for frying
salt, to taste
- Diablo Sauce:
1 1 red bell pepper, boiled
1 1 large white onion
9 9 habanero peppers, boiled
1 tsp 1 salt
1 tsp 1 vegetable or soybean oil
2 tbsp 2 white distilled vinegar
8 oz 8 unsalted tomato sauce puree
2 2 garlic cloves
1/4 cup 1/4 white onions
- Bottle Rocket Taco:
4 4 flour tortillas
1 cup 1 shredded Cojita cheese
1 cup 1 cabbage slaw
1/4 cup 1/4 cilantro
1/2 cup 1/2 candied jalapeños
Directions
- Habanero Battered Fried Shrimp:
- Sprinkle shrimp with Habanero Pepper Salt and cajun seasoning. Go easy with the Habanero Pepper Salt because it is SPICY and a little goes a long way.
- Place 3/4 cup flour in a shallow bowl. In a second shallow bowl, whisk eggs together with 1 tablespoon of water.
- Combine bread crumbs, Panko crumbs, and flour on a paper plate or in a shallow dish.
- Coat shrimp in flour, dip in egg, and then press into bread crumb mixture, throughly coating them.
- Pour 1 inch of oil in a Dutch oven or skillet with high sides. Heat until oil sizzles when you drop a few bread crumbs in.
- Fry shrimp in batches until golden brown. This will only take a minute or two depending on shrimp size and how hot the oil is. Do not overcook them or they will be chewy. Place them on a paper towel-lined plate.
- Sprinkle shrimp lightly with salt when you take them out of the oil.
- Diablo Sauce:
- Remove tail ends from peppers and boil red bell pepper with the habanero peppers for 7 minutes.
- With a processor or emulsion blender, process remaining ingredients together for about 10 minutes (until seeds disappear) with the boiled red bell pepper and habanero peppers. Discard boiled water.
- Cool down and there you go!
- Bottle Rocket Taco:
- Warm flour tortilla.
- Place habanero battered fried shrimp on the bottom of the taco.
- Top with Cotija cheese, cabbage slaw, cilantro and candied jalapeños.
- Drizzle the Diablo sauce on the taco and serve.
Notes
- If you live near a Torchy’s Taco’s location, you can buy their Diablo Sauce by the bottle in the store. It is also available at select Whole Foods locations
Inspired by Torchy’s Tacos
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