# Mashed Potato Tacos

This is a recipe for tacos made with leftover mashed potatoes, paired with a Salvadoran-style coleslaw.

- Cuisine: Mexican
- Category: Side
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- leftover mashed potatoes
- cabbage
- jalape



o
- shredded carrots
- 1 handful oregano
- salt
- fresh cracked pepper
- 1 scoop sugar
- vinegar
- 0.5 lime
- white corn tortillas
- peanut oil
- crema
- Cholula hot sauce

## Instructions

1. Start with the cabbage.
2. Use the mandoline to shave the cabbage real thin.
3. Put the shaved cabbage in a bowl.
4. Shave the jalape



o thin on the mandoline.
5. Throw the jalape



o into the bowl with the cabbage.
6. Add carrot shreds to the bowl.
7. Go in with a big handful of oregano.
8. Add salt and fresh cracked pepper.
9. Add a little scoop of sugar to balance the acidity of the vinegar.
10. Pour in the warmed-up vinegar for a quick pickle.
11. Squeeze lime into the mixture.
12. Give the curtido a nice stir.
13. Let the curtido sit for about half an hour.
14. Take white corn tortillas.
15. Get a scoop of mashed potatoes.
16. Put mashed potatoes right down on each tortilla.
17. Spread the mashed potatoes flat on one half of the tortilla.
18. Fold over the other half of the tortilla.
19. Turn the pan to medium heat.
20. Add peanut oil to the pan.
21. Drop the tacos into the pan.
22. Move the tacos around a little bit.
23. Flip the tacos once they get golden brown and crispy.
24. Add a little bit of crema on top of the taco.
25. Add Cholula hot sauce on top of the taco.
26. Split the taco open.
27. Fill the taco with curtido.
28. Add crema to the filled taco.
29. Add Cholula hot sauce to the filled taco.

## Equipment

- mandoline
- bowl
- tongs
- pan
- plate

## Tips

- For the curtido, if you had onion, you would add a little onion.
- Warm up the vinegar for a quick pickle.
- The crispy tortilla makes the whole thing.
- The curtido puts it over the top.
- It's perfect.
- What a treat!

## Source

- Original video: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8hjJdAD/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/6e2ca20d-aca8-4593-b7dd-ee3a919562bc
- Extracted: 2025-07-06

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