Easy Taco Salad
Crispy lettuce with taco flavored ground beef, tomato, onions and Mexican cheese served with taco sauce for a delicious meal. You can also add tortilla chips for a crunch.
In a large skillet over medium heat, cook the ground beef until no pink remains. I used dehydrated onions but if you are using fresh onion add them now and cook with the ground beef. Drain any grease.
If using dehydrated onion add it to the tomato sauce.
Add the taco seasoning to the ground beef and stir well.
Add the taco sauce and water to the ground beef, stir until combined. Bring to a boil then turn to a simmer and cook, uncovered, for 10 minutes.
Dice the green onion and slice tomato into bite sized pieces.
Add the tomato sauce with dehydrated onions to the ground beef. Stir to combine and continue to simmer until the mixture is thick enough to eat with a fork.
Place lettuce on a salad plate.
Add a large spoonful of the ground beef and the tomatoes.
Add the Mexican shredded cheese and green onion to the top then serve with taco sauce. This is also delicious if you serve with tortilla chips.
Easy Taco Salad
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Ingredients
- 1 head lettuce, chopped
- 1# ground beef
- 1¼ oz packet (2 Tbsp) taco seasoning
- ¾ cup water
- ¼ cup taco sauce
- 1 – 8 oz can tomato sauce
- 2 Tbsp dehydrated minced onions or 1 medium onion, sliced
- 2 cups shredded Mexican cheese
- 1-pint cherry tomatoes
- 2-3 green onions
- taco sauce
- tortilla chips, optional
Directions
- In a large skillet over medium heat, cook the ground beef until no pink remains. I used dehydrated onions but if you are using fresh onion add it now and cook with the ground beef. Drain any grease.
- If using dehydrated onion add it to the tomato sauce.
- Add the taco seasoning to the ground beef and stir well.
- Add the taco sauce and water to the ground beef, stir until combined. Bring to a boil then turn to a simmer and cook, uncovered, for 10 minutes.
- Dice the green onion and slice tomato into bite sized pieces.
- Add the tomato sauce with dehydrated onions to the ground beef. Stir to combine and continue to simmer until the mixture is thick enough to eat with a fork.
- Place lettuce on a salad plate. Add a large spoonful of the ground beef and tomatoes.
- Add the Mexican shredded cheese and green onion to the top then serve with taco sauce. This is also delicious if you serve with tortilla chips.
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Categories: Cheese, Lettuce, Onion, Taco Seasoning, Tomato Sauce or paste, Tomatoes
Yummy 🤤
Thank you!
😋Great, well done for posting. Good luck.
Thank you!
Beautifully presented
Thank you for your kind words Derrick!
Say the word taco and the kids around here are all in!
How nice and there are so many ways to use taco meat. It’s nice if you don’t know what to make that tacos will work for the kids.
I love taco salad.
We have it all the time, we love it too.
Looks yummy Diane – my mom used to make taco salad up every long holiday as I’d be working on something outside, so cold food was best to have for when I took a break.
I love how your mom made certain food for each occasion or holiday. It must have been exciting knowing what you were having on different occasions.
Yes, it was Diane. That was one of my favorite dishes and something I looked forward to – it made me work harder. 🙂 I also got the biscuits and gravy for breakfast over the 4th of July when I did the windows (something I despised doing, even after I got the soap sprayer and long-handled squeegee); my mom was a perfectionist when it came to clean windows (I was not). Memorial Day I always took a couple of extra days of vacation because I did all my planting in pots/basket/in ground and laid all my mulch etc. If it was nice weather for the long holiday and I got everything done, then I had two days to enjoy with no outside work, although by then, I couldn’t move from all the bending/lugging for three days straight.
I bet you couldn’t move! Stretching of your hamstrings had to be sore.
Yes, I really should have started doing bends and exercising beforehand. The worst was one year I took off the entire week following Memorial Day. My mother had a relative who wanted us to come and visit him, so we made a quick trip to Kitchener, Ontario for two or three days. So I worked out in the yard the three-day weekend. Before I got river rock at the both sides of the house, I had white marble which I put there because my father had flowers planted there and when we had a lot of rain, the dirt splashed onto the light-colored bricks. So I lugged home all that white marble and put it down. I have a little dolly in the garage, so I could haul it around, but I had to pick it up to scoop out gravel, then to dump it. My hands were like claws from carrying the bags which were very heavy and my back felt like I was in a bent-over position. We had already made arrangements to go. Every time I got into and out of the car, I thought I’d die! It took a week before I felt normal again.
OMG that was work for sure Linda!
I let my mom sit up front when we went with Joe and he had to help me in/out of the backseat as I was so stiff. I told them I wasn’t going to be hiring myself out as a gardener anytime soon. Then about five years ago, I had a landscaping company deliver 36 large bags of mulch to do my mulch all around the house – mulch isn’t even heavy, but I did that on Memorial Day holiday too and by the end of that job I could hardly heft the bags, snip off the top and dump them. 🙂
It is a lot of work doing yard work. When we got mulch in the past we would have 2 dump trucks full dumped on our driveway. I need to get some this year once I give my daughter a bunch of my bulbs. Now I have to consider if I want to do bags as that would be easier but more expensive.
I should have gotten a load in the driveway, but I thought maybe it might rain and it would be out there for a long time since I was doing it myself, but the downside of the 36 bags, which I had them put at the side of the house, then worried someone would steal them, so I carried all 36 to the back of the house under the patio … as I picked up each bag, lots of carpenter ants ran out, I mean a lot of carpenter ants, so then I worried they’d get in the house. We had carpenter ants for years and were treated for them by Ortho (who never got rid of them), then a small pest control service, who got rid of them the first time they were out (it was a nest in the fluorescent light fixture downstairs – I told Ortho I saw a flying ant go into the fixture and they said “well I don’t see it, so I guess it’s gone”).
Employee at his best! 🤦🏽♀️
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Now you’ve gone and made me hungry for taco salad… and it’s 9:30 pm!
It’s never too late to eat right? 🤣
It looks fresh and yummy!
Thank you!
I love this. So healthy and looks delicious, Diane.
We use lettuce at home to do dishes like this. A good carb cutter while maintaining a satisfied stomach!
Thank you Ab. You can make it even healthier by using ground chicken or turkey. Since the meat is cooked with the taco seasoning you really can’t tell the difference.
Somewhat related (because this is my super simplified way of “cooking”): I had a salad that I bought from a kit, because I’m one of those, and I had leftover taco meat in the fridge. Voila! 😛 It was really good. Now I seek out leftover taco meat for my salads. When I find it, it’s a bonus. Amazingly, this is also how I make chicken salad. 🙂
I love chicken salad too! My favorite way to prepare it is to add pineapple tidbits or grapes cut in half and served on a croissant, so yummy! Next time you make taco’s, make a double batch of the meat mixture for salad.
I love taco salad, but am not about to fry up a flour tortilla for a bowl. This is a great compromise.
Yes and so many less calories than eating a friend tortilla.
This looks so bright and tasty!
I make this a lot, thank you Mary!
This used to be one of my favorite salads. This version sounds excellent.
Thank you so much Jacqui!
You weren’t lying when you said it’s an easy recipe! And it looks delicious—definitely something we’re going to try.
It is so good! Let me know what you think of it. Thank you Corna!