One Skillet Tacos

Keep my cleaning down to just one skillet, please. Thank you! These One Skillet Tacos are great. Everything is in there except the lettuce and the taco shells. There’s ground beef, seasoning, diced tomatoes, and even rice. It’s so delicious that you might just skip the shell and eat it out of the skillet.

I love tacos…and who doesn’t? But let’s face it, tacos can be a lot of slicing and dicing, shredding, and chopping.

This recipe keeps it simple by adding it all into one skillet, then serve. Open a can of diced tomatoes and green chilies and dump them in. Easy, yet delicious.

What’s even easier, then, is re-heating leftovers. Yes! Leftovers have to be my favorite food.

Making One Skillet Tacos

Start with a large skillet or sauce pan. Over a medium-high heat, brown the ground beef. While it’s cooking, add some salt and pepper to taste.

You can also use ground turkey, or even ground chicken here.

Once the beef is cooked, drain off any extra fat.

Next, stir in the taco seasoning packet, diced tomatoes, diced green chilies, and water.

Bring this aromatic mixture to a boil while you measure out your rice.

Stir in your Minute rice, cover, and reduce the heat to a simmer.

Allow the rice to absorb the water, which takes about 5 – 10 minutes.

You can check the absorption by shifting the mixture to the side and see if there’s any water left on the bottom of the skillet.

Also, you can substitute Minute rice with basmati or long grain, just cook it a few minutes longer. Again, just check for water on the bottom of the pan.

Lastly, sprinkle the cheese on top and recover. Let the cheese melt and get all gooey and delicious, then it’s time to eat.

Serving

This recipe is wonderfully flexible when it comes to serving, which is handy when feeding a family.

You can eat it plain from a bowl with nothing added, ergo the easiest and most simple method.

Or, you can serve them in taco shells; soft or crunchy.

Additionally, serve them in a flour tortilla and wrap it up as a burrito.

One other serving idea, quirky as it sounds, would be to serve the taco mixture as a dip, thereby eating it with tortilla chips. That could take a while, though, so maybe don’t use this method if you’re really hungry. Ha!

Toppings?

Yes, go crazy with the toppings. You already know what you like, but I’mma still going to throw some ideas at you.

• hot sauce, pico de gallo, or salsa
• fresh cilantro, diced green onion, and/or fresh avocado
• shredded lettuce
• a dollop of sour cream or Greek yogurt
• fresh jalapeño slices
• sliced black olives for those who remember when Taco Bell used to put them on their enchiladas

More Easy Dinner Recipes:

• Pretty much anything from my Slow Cooker collection like: Saucy Chicken and Pasta, Honey Garlic Chicken, or Beef Roast
• 30 Minute Lazy Lasagna
• Homemade Cheese Enchiladas
• Tortilla Quiche Bake, which is Keto friendly

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One Skillet Tacos

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