How to Prepare Ultimate Taco Frito Casserole

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, taco frito casserole. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Taco Frito Casserole is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Taco Frito Casserole is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

In a large skillet, brown the ground beef until crumbled and cooked through. Add the onions and packet of taco seasoning and water. Top with taco sauce, sour cream, and fritos to taste when serving. Fritos Taco Casserole is an easy and delicious one pan meal that the whole family will love 🙂 Set a large skillet over medium heat to start, and even better if it's a cast iron or oven proof skillet.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have taco frito casserole using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Taco Frito Casserole:

1. Get Ground Beef
2. Get Oil
3. Prepare Onion
4. Get Garlic
5. Get Taco Packet or more based on preference
6. Take Water
7. Get Rotel (10 oz can) add more or less
8. Get Red Enchilada Sauce
9. Get Masa Prepared According to Package
10. Get Refried Beans
11. Take Rice
12. Get Shredded Cheese
13. Prepare Fritos
14. Get Flour Tortillas
15. Take Garnish with lettuce, sour cream, and salsa

Season with salt and pepper and add taco seasoning. Taco Casserole loaded with all your favorite Mexican ingredients makes an easy, quick weeknight dinner. With ground beef, beans, and crunchy Frito topping. Just like Oven Baked Beef Tacos , this casserole dish is an easy way to prepare your favorite Mexican Dinner for a crowd.

Steps to make Taco Frito Casserole:

1. Add oil to frying pan. Saute onions and garlic.
2. Add ground beef and taco packet seasoning with water. Simmer for 10 minutes until ground beef is cooked thoroughly. Add refried beans and Rotel. Stir.
3. Prepare Masa according to mixture on package. Line bottom of 8x8 glass baking dish with 3/4 of Masa. Bake 350 degrees for 10 minutes to pre cook crust layer. Remove crust from oven.
4. Begin layering casserole. First, create a layer with meat bean mixture, pour ⅓ of the Red Enchilada sauce over meat mixture. Sprinkle ⅓ cup of rice. Sprinkle shredded cheese. Sprinkle with ½ cup of Fritos. Layer with 1 flour tortilla and repeat layer pattern twice. Top with remaining Masa, cheese and Fritos.
5. Cover with foil and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Uncover and bake for another 5 to 10 minutes.
6. Serve with lettuce, olives, salsa, sour cream, and additional Fritos.

With ground beef, beans, and crunchy Frito topping. Just like Oven Baked Beef Tacos , this casserole dish is an easy way to prepare your favorite Mexican Dinner for a crowd. Frito pie is not really a pie, it's a kind of a taco casserole (like Dorito casserole)! Also known as frito taco pie, this easy dish can be made at home with a few simple ingredients; beef, beans, tomatoes, corn, an ample supply of cheese, and of course, Fritos! This walking taco casserole is layers of Frito chips, ground beef, and shredded cheese, topped with lettuce, tomatoes, and olives.

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