Sesame Beef Tacos
with Quick-Pickled Veggies & Sriracha Sour Cream
- Soy
- Wheat
- Sesame
Instead of going the traditional route with these tacos, we decided to mix things up with a Korean-style sesame beef filling. The tacos get a tangy hit from pickled cucumber and radishes, and a kick from a sriracha-infused sour cream. The best part? Everything comes together in just 20 minutes from start to finish. Taco ’bout a weeknight win!
Ingredients
4 tablespoon
Sour Cream
2 tablespoon
Soy Sauce
(Contains: Soy, Wheat)
5 teaspoon
White Wine Vinegar
1 unit
Mini Cucumber
1 tablespoon
Sesame Oil
(Contains: Sesame)
10 ounce
Ground Beef
3 unit
Radishes
4 ounce
Shredded Red Cabbage
6 unit
Flour Tortillas
(Contains: Wheat, Soy)
2 unit
Scallions
2 teaspoon
Sriracha
1 teaspoon
Garlic Powder
¼ ounce
Cilantro
Not included in your delivery
3 teaspoon (tsp)
Sugar
1 teaspoon (tsp)
Cooking Oil
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
• Wash and dry all produce. • Trim and thinly slice radishes and cucumber into rounds. Trim and thinly slice scallions. Pick cilantro leaves from stems.
• In a medium bowl, combine radishes, cucumber, vinegar, 1 tsp sugar (2 tsp for 4 servings), and a pinch of salt and pepper. Taste and add a pinch more sugar if you like a sweeter pickle. • Set aside, stirring occasionally, until ready to serve.
• In a small bowl, combine sour cream with sriracha to taste. Season with salt and pepper.
• Heat a drizzle of oil in a large pan over medium-high heat. Add scallions and cabbage; season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring, until softened, 4-5 minutes. • Add beef *, garlic powder, and 1 tsp sugar (2 tsp for 4 servings). Cook, breaking up meat into pieces, until browned and cooked through, 4-6 minutes. • Stir in sesame oil and half the soy sauce (all for 4). Taste and season with salt, pepper, and up to ½ tsp more sugar.
• While filling cooks, wrap tortillas in damp paper towels and microwave until warm and pliable, 30 seconds.
• Divide tortillas between plates. Spread a bit of sriracha sour cream onto each tortilla; top with beef filling, a bit of pickled veggies, and cilantro leaves. Drizzle with any remaining sriracha if desired. Serve with any remaining pickled veggies on the side.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Dec 2025- Flavor: Many loved the unique blend of Asian and Mexican flavors, with the pickled veggies and sriracha sour cream adding delicious tang and kick 🌶️.
- Ease of prep: Customers found this quick and easy to make, with clear instructions and pre-portioned ingredients simplifying the process.
- Suggestions: Some recommended draining excess oil from the beef and adjusting seasoning to taste; a few suggested adding cheese or using corn tortillas.
- Leftovers: Several noted the dish reheats well, though some found the pickled veggies less crisp the next day.
- Portions: While many found it filling, some wished for larger portions or an additional side dish to round out the meal.
Reviews from our home cooks
Unbelievably delicious! The pickled veggies pair perfectly with the sesame beef! I love how easy this was to prepare, and how the exact amounts of everything is provided. HelloFresh does a great job! This is possibly one of my top favorite recipes!
This was easily our favorite meal that we tried. We loved the pairing of the sesame and soy sauce-flavored beef with fresh-pickled veggies and the sriracha-seasoned sour cream. It was unexpected and ever so good!
This dish was a joy to not only prep, but to eat as well. This was my first hello fresh meal and was super impressed with the ease of instructions. The Tuscan tacos had the perfect blend of savory and sweet taste. The pickled veggies adds that sweet and sour to mix perfectly with the siracha cream spice. This will be a permanent hit for me as the serving size is spot on.
The good: I loved every bit of it. I never would have dreamed of putting quick pickled veggies on top of a taco, just would have crossed my mind. The crunch and tang it added was superb 👌 My husband loved everything except the cream sauce. He despises pretty much anything that has sour cream in it. I have to be really sneaky about it.
Such a fun twist on the standard taco. I love pickled veggies so I julienned them and started the pickle process about 3 hours before I made the meal. Savory, and a slight kick with the sriracha sour cream.
This was my favorite taco-ish recipe so far! The beef with the pickled veggies was so good and something different. It was also super quick and easy to make.
We really liked the sesame flavor with the quick-pickled veggies. The heat from the sriracha was cooled nicely with the vinegar and cucumbers with the tame radishes.
A nice change to beef tacos...sesame sauce good and sriracha sour cream yummy...spicy but good...liked the radishes and cucumber for crunch.
This was very good and easy to make. I love the quick pickling of the veggies. Next time I would use less sesame oil. The oil was dripping out of the taco.
Quick is an important factor in meal prep after a long day on the farm-- so I don't make poor food choices. The sesame oil made these tacos!
