Spiced Steak Tacos with Blackberry Pear Slaw

Lighting up the grill and the flavour this Independence Day 🇺🇸🔥 Spiced steak tacos topped with a blackberry pear slaw — smoky, juicy, and just the right kind of wild. Freedom never tasted so fresh! 🌮🍐
Meal Type
Meal
Timeframe

45 minutes

Seasonality
Summer / Autumn
Canadian Ingredients
  • Blackberry
  • Cabbage
  • Pear
  • Radicchio

Spiced Steak Tacos with Blackberry Pear Slaw

Ingredients

  • 2 cups Pomegranate Juice

  • 1/4 cup + 1 tsp. Sugar

  • 1 Lime

  • 1 tsp. Cinnamon

  • 4 Crushed Allspice Berries

  • 1/4 tsp. Nutmeg

  • 1/2 tsp. Garlic Powder

  • 1/2 tsp. Crushed Red Pepper

  • 1 tbsp. Brown Sugar

  • 1 1/2 tsp. Salt

  • 1lb. Skirt Steak

  • 1/2 Butter Stick

  • 3 Sage Leaves

  • 1/4 cup Malbec Red Wine

  • 1/4 cup Olive Oil

  • 1 tbsp. Chives

  • 1 1/2 cup Red Cabbage

  • 1 cup Radicchio

  • 1 pint of Blackberries

  • 1 Bartlett Pear

  • 1/4 Red Onion

  • 8 Corn Tortillas

  • Blue Cheese Crumbles

Directions

  1. Mix pomegranate juice, ¼ cup sugar, ½ lime juice together into pot over medium-high heat, stir occasionally until sugar is dissolved – Reduce heat to medium-low until mixture is reduced by half for 30mins. – Let cool

  2. Mix cinnamon, allspice berries, nutmeg, garlic powder, crushed red pepper, brown sugar, salt together into mixing bowl – Rub over both sides of skirt steak

  3. Melt butter into skillet – Add sage leaves, cook for 3mins over low heat – Brush skirt steak with sage butter

  4. Heat skillet over medium-high heat, cook skirt steak on each side for 3-4mins – Let cool for 5mins.

  5. Mix malbec wine, ½ lime juice, olive oil, sugar, chives together into mixing bowl

  6. Mix red cabbage, radicchio, blackberries, bartlett pear, red onion together into separate mixing bowl – Mix vinaigrette, slaw together into mixing bowl

  7. Slice skirt steak against the grain – Warm tortillas – Garnish with blue cheese crumbles, pomegranate syrup