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Backyard Cookout Tacos

Grilled sirloin tips and zucchini in a taco shell with a corn and watermelon salsa. Everything you love about grilling in the back yard but in taco form!
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time30 minutes
marinate2 hours
Total Time2 hours 45 minutes
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: American, Tex-Mex
Keyword: grilled, Taco
Servings: 12 tacos

Ingredients

steak and marinade

  • 2 pounds sirloin tips
  • 2 tablespoons worcestershire
  • 1 clove grated garlic
  • 1 tablespoon cider vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon honey
  • 1 teaspoon cumin
  • 1 teaspoon paprika
  • salt and pepper

everything else

  • 1/2 a small watermelon
  • 5 ears corn
  • 1 bunch scallions
  • 1/4 cup crumbled cotija
  • 1 small clove garlic grated
  • 1 lime juice
  • salt and pepper
  • 2 zucchini sliced the long way into 6 spears each
  • 12 Old El Paso Stand 'N Stuff Taco Shells

Instructions

  • Mix the steak with the rest of the marinade ingredients and allow to sit in the fridge for an hour and a half or as long as overnight.
  • Grill the corn on high heat to char, remove from heat. Put the steak on the grill next and cook to medium doneness. Cook the zucchini slics as well to char.
  • While the steak and zucchini cooks, cut the corn off the cob. Mix it with the watermelon, scallions, cotija, garlic, and lime.
  • Cut any chunks of steak that are too big to fit in the taco shells so you end up with 12 equal portions of steak. Ideally when you cut the meat make sure to go against the grain.
  • Build the tacos starting with the steak, then adding a zucchini spear, then the salsa.
  • Serve immediately.