Tex-Mex Taco Soup

Name: Tex-Mex Taco Soup
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 5 servings
Cuisine: Tex Mex
Ingredients: 1.5 lb ground beef; 1 packet taco seasoning; 15 oz canned pinto beans, drained; 15 oz can, drained corn kernels; 14.5 oz can diced tomatoes with green chiles; 2 cups beef broth; 1 cup shredded cheddar; 2 cups tortilla chips

Marisol @marisol_elpaso

Tex-Mex Taco Soup is Tex Mex home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the soup. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

30 min Easy High fiber Halal

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1.5 lb ground beef
1 packet taco seasoning
15 oz canned pinto beans, drained
15 oz can, drained corn kernels
14.5 oz can diced tomatoes with green chiles
2 cups beef broth
1 cup shredded cheddar
2 cups tortilla chips

How to cook it

Brown the ground beef in a large pot, breaking it up, about 6 minutes, then drain excess fat.
Stir in the taco seasoning, pinto beans, corn, diced tomatoes with green chiles, and beef broth.
Bring to a simmer and cook, stirring occasionally, until slightly thickened, about 15 minutes.
Ladle into bowls and top with shredded cheddar and crushed tortilla chips.

Watch how to cook Tex-Mex Taco Soup

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Serve it with

A Tex Mex dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Tex-Mex Taco Soup, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The protein alongside
- Black Beans with Cumin and Lime
  
  15 min
What it is eaten with
- Refried Beans
  
  25 min
The sharp little thing
- Guacamole Casero
  
  15 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Tex-Mex Taco Soup carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Tex-Mex Taco Soup
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Carne Guisada
Gluten	Yes	Beef and Bean Tostadas
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 570 kcal
Protein: 37 g
Carbs: 35 g
Fat: 31 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sugar: 6 g
Sodium: 1150 mg
Saturated fat: 13 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Tex-Mex Taco Soup takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.