Easy Beef Taco Casserole
This kid-friendly easy beef taco casserole recipe lets you cook up a whole bunch of cheesy tacos all at once. Perfect for Cinco de Mayo!
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 6 1x
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Stovetop, Oven
- Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 pound ground beef
- One 1.25 ounce package taco spices (see note)
- 1 16 ounce jar of your favorite salsa
- 1 8 ounce container whipped cream cheese
- 12 hard taco shells
- 2 cups shredded cheddar or Mexican blend cheese
- Sour cream for garnish
- 4 scallions, chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450 and get out a 13 x 9 inch casserole.
- Cook ground beef over medium high heat in a large skillet until browned. Stir in taco spices and half the salsa and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Combine the remaining salsa with the cream cheese and spread over the bottom of the casserole. Stand the taco shells up in the casserole.
- Divide the beef mixture among the 12 taco shells, and top each taco with cheese. Bake for 10 minutes or until the cheese is melted.
- Remove the casserole and top the tacos with spoonfuls of sour cream. Scatter with scallions and serve!
Notes
If you can’t get/don’t have packaged taco spice mix, here’s a version you can make at home from Spend With Pennies!
Find it online: https://www.framedcooks.com/easy-beef-taco-casserole/