Dr. Mark Hyman makes spiced beef taco wraps with guacamole using grass-fed beef and extra virgin olive oil. He walks through the recipe while explaining why these whole ingredients matter for your health, encouraging you to cook real food at home instead of relying on processed options.
[No translation] Hey everybody, it's Dr. Mark Hyman. Welcome to my kitchen and we're going to make dinner. I love to make food at home. It's the best thing you can do. Real food, real ingredients at home with your friends and family. There's nothing better. So, and it's not that hard. This is a simple spicy beef taco with guacamole, simple to do for my Eat Fat, Get Thin cookbook. We have grass-fed beef. You want to use only the best quality animal protein, not feedlot beef, but grass-fed. No hormones, antibiotics, pesticides. It's got more omega-3 fats, more antioxidants, better for you and tastes better. A little more expensive, but worth it. And we have olive oil, extra virgin olive oil, only by the best because it's full of polyphenols, antioxidants. It actually protects against heart disease and so much, and it's delicious. And then spices. Spices are critical. Spices have all sorts of antioxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds. phytochemicals with all sorts of powerful hanging compounds. So we've got chili here, coriander, cumin, just makes a great beef taco, but it's also really good for you. We've got black pepper, and we have sea salt, and we have some just delicious vegetables. We have tomatoes and onions and garlic, which add all sorts of beneficial properties to your diet. Cilantro, which is a great detoxifier and antioxidant. Red cabbage, which is more phytonutrients, is also a great detoxifier. And of course, avocado is my favorite, full of monounsaturated fats, which are good for you. limes for the guacamole and to make things taste good and there's also good nutrients in there. So this is all medicine, all good stuff and great for you. So here we go, we're going to start and by the way, you know, I get a lot of my staples at a place called Thrive Market, which is a fantastic online market. It's a discount market where you can get all the best quality whole, fresh, real foods for 25 to 50% off the retail price. They'll ship it directly to your door so I get all my staples, nuts, seeds, spices, salt, pepper, and all the ingredients I use for cooking really come from there. And it's great. I encourage you to check it out. Okay, so let's get started. We heat up the pan and we're going to start with olive oil. You can measure it out. I don't actually worry about measuring too much. I usually, you know, just kind of my ballpark, close the pan a little bit, a couple of tablespoons or so of olive oil. And you don't want to heat olive oil too hot because it can go bad. It can actually go rancid. and get damaged. You want to just heat it up gently. I have the pan just on a gentle heat. And not super hot. And throw in the garlic and the onions. And let it cook down for a bit. And then we put in the beef and the spices. Delicious and amazing. Cooking is one of those essential, simple tasks that we have to learn how to do. If we don't know how to cook, we can't feed our bodies. It's so simple, it's so essential. You know what? It's fun. You get to play with your food. I love to play with my food. And you get to smell these awesome smells. Garlic, onions, and olive oils are my favorite smells. So, once the onions and garlic cook down a little bit, you grab the ground beef and grass fed, of course, and you just kind of put it in here and then smush it up. Make sure it's all smushed up. Sometimes you can use your hands. I sometimes use my hands when I cook to play with my food. It's kind of fun. Although, you don't want to be touching anybody else after you've touched raw meat. That's not a good idea. You get in trouble for that. But you just want to chunk it all up into nice little chunks and don't burn yourself. And let it cook down and put the spices in. All the spices I pre-measured. We've got cumin, coriander and chili all together. And then we sprinkle that all in here. so we're just letting the beef tacos cook up a little bit, and then we're going to make guacamole. Now, I washed my hands in between and I washed the ball, so don't worry. We are going to make guacamole. Now, people think, oh, guacamole is so hard. How am I going to make guacamole? But it's actually pretty easy. All you need is avocados, a little bit of lime, some salt and pepper and that's it. And here's my secret way of cutting the avocado. It's great, you don't cut your hands. And then you take the pit and you can just notch it with the knife like this. A little trick, pops right out. You don't have to make a mess. And then you basically just scoop out the guacamole avocado into a bowl. Voila, so easy. Just scoop right out and put all in that bowl. I like to make a couple of avocados worth. And avocados are just full of powerful anti disease compounds that are just so delicious and so rich and so creamy and you can use it in all sorts of things. You can use it in smoothies, you can use it in soups, you can make ice cream out of it. It's an awesome food. And then we take some limes and we slice them up actually for the condiment. Right, so we have a little bit of limes here for afterwards, so we can sprinkle them on our taco. And then we want to take some lime and actually put it in the guacamole. And I have my favorite little hand tool here. People use all these fancy machines. But this is a simple squeezer for lemons or limes. I love it. And you squeeze it all in there. And you squeeze the other one. And you've got two lime juices in there. Super easy. A little bit of salt, a little bit of pepper, and voila you got guacamole and then you just mush it. Very simple. You need a fork, you can get a potato masher, but it's pretty easy. You just sort of chop it up, mush it up, and it takes a minute. It's all while the tacos are cooking, so you kind of maximize your time and you have everything ready when the tacos are done. and in about three minutes we're gonna have a taco. So it's quick, it's easy, it's simple, doesn't take a long time, and it actually is so delicious and so good for you. And you get all the good quality fats from the olive oil, from the guacamole, and from the grass-fed beef, which, you know, interesting, has far more omega-3 fats than you'd imagine, because they eat grass, and that's where actually wild animals get all their omega-3s, is from eating wild plants. Feedlot beef has no omega-3s. Feedlot beef has way more omega-6s, which are inflammatory and are problematic. So here you go, you got your guacamole. So easy, guacamole. And then you actually spread it on the leaves. And the way we make the tacos is we don't use flour tacos or corn tacos. We want to reduce our grains as part of the Eat Fat, Get Thin program. We just take a little bit And we sort of spread it on here like a basic sort of creamy kind of filling for the taco on the lettuce wraps. I like these a lot, but you don't have to use so much. And we pretty much have our tacos done. That's so simple. And we're gonna take now the beef, which is done. Delicious ground beef. And we put it in here. And we got all this yummy stuff. And here we go. And then we just put a little bit of the ground beef inside the taco. So here we go. And a little bit in here. You can make a lot of tacos to feed your whole family and you can kind of wrap it up at the end. and you get to just eat it like a taco. And then we take a little cilantro we put it on, a cilantro, a few tomatoes, a few tomatoes, and see how easy it is to cook. It's not that hard. Even a doctor can do it. Imagine that. And then you take a little lime and spritz it on. That's it and lime and voila you got your tacos, dinner. How easy is that? And everybody's happy, your family, your kids happy, they love it, it's delicious and it's easy to make and it's good for you. So I encourage you to get in your kitchens, take back your kitchens, take back your homes, eat real food and use ingredients that you know and love and get some places that are great like Thrive Market. So have a great time cooking, enjoy your kitchen, enjoy your family and eat up.
