Tacos Gobernador

Name: Tacos Gobernador
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 400g prawns, peeled and chopped; 8 corn tortillas; 200g Chihuahua or Oaxaca cheese, grated; 1/2 onion, chopped; 1 tomato, chopped; 1 poblano pepper, roasted and diced; Chipotle or serrano chilli

Tacos gobernador/TAH-kohs goh-behr-nah-DOR/

Also known as: Governor Tacos, Shrimp and Cheese Tacos, Tacos Gobernador Sinaloa

About this dish

Corn tortillas filled with prawns sautéed with onion, tomato, poblano and chilli, and melted cheese, then crisped on the griddle.

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Ingredients

🦐400g prawns, peeled and chopped

🌮8 corn tortillas

🧀200g Chihuahua or Oaxaca cheese, grated

🧅1/2 onion, chopped

🍅1 tomato, chopped

🫑1 poblano pepper, roasted and diced

🌶️Chipotle or serrano chilli

Method

Serves 2

Sauté the onion, poblano and chilli in butter, then add the tomato and cook down.

Add the prawns and cook until pink. Season.

Put cheese on each tortilla on a hot griddle, then a spoon of the prawn filling.

Fold and cook until the cheese melts and the tortilla crisps.

Serve with salsa and lime.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Tacos gobernador come from Sinaloa, reportedly created in Mazatlán in the 1980s for a visiting state governor.

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