These fresh, homemade ground beef tacos are bursting with Mexican-inspired flavors the entire family will love! It’s a one-dish dinner idea that is ready to serve in just 30 minutes. As easy on the budget, and it is to make and clean up. No wonder it gets ranked highly by our fans.
The savory taco meat filling is an easy combination of ground beef that’s simmered with onions, a few on-hand seasonings, and tomato sauce, for amazing flavor everyone will love. Spooned into crunchy taco shells, the tacos get topped with cheddar cheese and lettuce and are served with salsa and sour cream, for a meal your family will request again and again.
How to Make Ground Beef Tacos
Here are the basics of how to make our easy ground beef tacos. Refer to the recipe for all the specifics, so your tacos will taste perfectly seasoned with the just the right amount of filling:
Prepare the Taco Meat
Cook your ground beef with onion to add flavor in just one step—slashing time from cooking them separately. Add garlic powder, chili powder, salt, and tomato sauce to the drained meat mixture and simmer to bring out and balance the flavors perfectly.
Warm the Taco Shells
For the best texture and experience, warm the taco shells in the oven. In a hurry? You can skip this step and get right to filling the shells!
Assemble the Tacos
Spoon the taco ingredients into the shells, starting with the ground beef mixture and top with cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
Serve with Sauces
Offer salsa and sour cream so that each person can top their tacos as they wish.
Homemade Taco Seasoning
What is the secret to our delicious tacos? It’s the flavorful combination of ingredients simmered in the ground beef! We take simple seasonings like garlic and chili powder and add them in just the right amounts with onion, tomato sauce and salt to create the best-tasting ground beef taco recipe you can make. It creates the best flavor for all-family appeal, not too mild but not too spicy either. It's like an explosion of flavor in your mouth.
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Ground Beef Tacos
- Prep Time 30 min
- Total 30 min
- Ingredients 12
- Servings 6
Ingredients
- 1 lb lean ground beef
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 can (8 oz) tomato sauce
- 1 box (4.6 oz) Old El Paso™ Crunchy Taco Shells (12 Count)
- 1 1/2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese (6 oz)
- 2 cups shredded lettuce
- 2 medium tomatoes, chopped
- 3/4 cup thick & chunky salsa
- 3/4 cup sour cream, if desired
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 250°F. In large skillet, brown ground beef and onion over medium heat for 8 to 10 minutes or until beef is thoroughly cooked, stirring frequently. Drain.
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Step2Stir in chili powder, salt, garlic powder and tomato sauce. Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer 10 minutes.
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Step3Meanwhile, place taco shells on ungreased cookie sheet. Heat at 250°F. for 5 minutes.
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Step4To assemble tacos, layer beef mixture, cheese, lettuce and tomatoes in each taco shell. Serve with salsa; top with sour cream.
Nutrition
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 2 tacos
- Calories
- 390
- Calories from Fat
- 210
- Total Fat
- 23g
- 36%
- Saturated Fat
- 11g
- 53%
- Trans Fat
- 1/2g
- Cholesterol
- 75mg
- 25%
- Sodium
- 890mg
- 37%
- Potassium
- 440mg
- 13%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 23g
- 8%
- Dietary Fiber
- 3g
- 14%
- Sugars
- 5g
- Protein
- 22g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 20%
- 20%
- Vitamin C
- 8%
- 8%
- Calcium
- 25%
- 25%
- Iron
- 15%
- 15%
Exchanges:
1 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 1 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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