This delicious low-sodium taco meat can be made with ground beef, pork, chicken, or turkey. The recipe uses our no-salt Mexican seasoning mix . If you use any other Mexican seasoning or taco seasoning, make sure that it is salt-free.
- 1 lb lean ground meat (beef, pork, chicken, or turkey)
- ½ cup onion, finely chopped
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tsp Mexican seasoning (see recipe)
- ½ tsp cilantro
- 1 tsp lime juice
- ½ cup no-sodium chicken broth (or beef broth)
- In a large skillet heated to medium high, brown the ground meat, onion, and garlic. Stir in the remaining ingredients, heat to boiling, and then reduce heat and simmer until the liquid is mostly gone.
According to our estimates, one serving from this recipe will contain 60 mg of sodium.
Note that sodium percentages depend on which daily reference you use. 60mg of sodium per serving implies that this recipe provides:
– 3% of the U.S. FDA daily reference value for sodium for a 2,000-calorie diet that includes 2,400 mg sodium, or
– 4% of the American Heart Association recommendation of 1,500 mg sodium per day, or
– 6% of the Ménière’s diet recommendation of 1,000 mg sodium per day.
(As is the case with all of the recipes on this web site, the nutrition information provided in this recipe is only an estimate based on nutrition information provided on the packaging of each of the ingredients we used in this recipe and/or on a variety of sources on the web. This information should be regarded as an opinion only, with no guarantees that it is accurate. Obviously, the nutritional information will vary depending on the ingredients and quantities that you use.)
