Taco Bake
Taco night in a casserole dish — Walking Taco Bake, Taco Bake with Crescent Rolls and Doritos, Cheesy Layered Taco Bake — for busy weeknights.
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A delicious layered casserole combining seasoned ground beef, crunchy Fritos, and melted cheddar cheese.
Briana MillerIngredients
- 1 1/2 pounds ground beef
- 1 package taco seasoning mix
- 1 bag Fritos corn chips
- 1 to 2 cups cheddar cheese, shredded
Instructions
- 1Brown the ground beef in a skillet.
- 2Mix in the taco seasoning and cook according to the package directions.
- 3Layer in a casserole dish: first a layer of Fritos chips, then the meat mixture, then shredded cheese. Repeat the layers once more.
- 4Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F (175°C) for 15 to 20 minutes or until the cheese is bubbly.
- 5Remove from oven and add additional shredded cheese on top if desired.
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Taco night is easy right up until everybody's building their own plate and half the toppings end up on the floor. Baking it all together gets the same flavor on the table with one pan to wash.
Cooks on Pepper reach for these on the nights when the kids have practice and dinner has to be in the oven by six, or when there's a pound of ground beef thawed and no plan for it.
Every recipe here starts with browned meat and taco seasoning and goes somewhere different from there — Fritos on the Walking Taco Bake, biscuits on the classic Taco Bake, cornbread on the Mexican cornbread taco bake, and ground turkey in the One Skillet Turkey Taco Bake.
Quick Tips
- 1
Drain the beef well
Pour off the grease from a pound of ground beef before adding seasoning, or the bottom layer turns soupy under the cheese.
- 2
Add the chips last
Stir Fritos or Doritos in right before serving, or scatter them on top for the final 5 minutes so they stay crunchy.
- 3
Cover then uncover
Bake covered with foil for 20 minutes, then pull the foil and give it 10 more so the cheese browns instead of steaming.
- 4
Let it rest
Give the pan 5 to 10 minutes out of the oven before you cut it so the layers hold together on the plate.
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