American

Walking Taco Bake

Name: Walking Taco Bake
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 5 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1.25 lb ground beef; 2 tbsp taco seasoning; 1/2 cup water; 8 cups corn chips; 2 cups shredded cheddar; 2 tomatoes; 1 cup shredded lettuce; 1/2 cup sour cream; 1/2 cup salsa

Paul @paul_northshore

Walking Taco Bake is American home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

40 min Medium Gluten free Halal

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1.25 lb ground beef
2 tbsp taco seasoning
1/2 cup water
8 cups corn chips
2 cups shredded cheddar
2 tomatoes
1 cup shredded lettuce
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup salsa

How to cook it

Heat the oven to 375F and lightly grease a 9x13 baking dish.
Brown the ground beef in a skillet over medium-high heat, breaking it up, about 7 minutes, then drain the fat.
Stir in the taco seasoning and water and simmer 3 minutes until thickened.
Spread half the corn chips in the baking dish, top with the seasoned beef and half the cheddar, then scatter the remaining corn chips and cheddar over the top.
Bake until the cheese is melted and bubbling, about 12 minutes.
Top with diced tomato, shredded lettuce, sour cream and salsa just before serving, so the chips stay crisp.

Serve it with

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

The cooked vegetable
- Buttered Corn
  
  8 min
What it is eaten with
- Baked Potato
  
  60 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. Walking Taco Bake carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Walking Taco Bake
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew
Gluten	No
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: 520 kcal
Protein: 28 g
Carbs: 34 g
Fat: 30 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sugar: 3 g
Sodium: 760 mg
Saturated fat: 12 g

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

When to cook it

Walking Taco Bake takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.