5 Ingredient Easy Taco Bake

Real talk… honestly sometimes we just want dinner to be easy, but we also want it to taste just as good as a dinner that takes longer to cook. This taco bake is just that. It’s literally like tacos and casserole had a baby. Haha. This dinner is easy, cheesy, and delicious! It’s perfect for those nights where you just feel like ordering take out and don’t want a huge mess in the kitchen afterwords.

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Pro Tips

• Make it spicy: If you’re one that loves spicy foods especially tacos than either use some hot sauce or swap the cheese for pepper jack cheese.
• Hosting a party: Serve with Margaritas and call it a taco party!
• Make it for breakfast: Add scrambled eggs, hash browns, and breakfast sausage for the perfect brunch idea.
• Freeze for later: Assemble, wrap, and freeze. When you’re in a hurry and don’t have time to cook or maybe just don’t feel like cooking just thaw and bake.

Ingredients For Taco Bake

This taco bake requires simple ingredients so no need to make a fancy grocery list.

• Ground Beef
• Taco Seasoning
• Rotel
• Shredded Cheese
• Tortilla Chips

Step By Step Instructions for Making Taco Bake

Here are step by step instructions for making taco bake. Down below is a recipe card you can print if you want!

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Brown the ground beef and drain the grease if needed.
3. Stir in Rotel and taco seasonings. Let simmer for about 5 minutes.
4. In a baking dish layer tortilla chips, beef mixture, and cheese. repeat until all your ingredients are gone.
5. Bake for 15 minutes. The cheese should be melted and bubbly.
6. Add on your favorite toppings and enjoy!

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

Here are some things you will love about this recipe!

• Easy: This recipe is so easy to make. As a mom I know that finding easy dinners is a must especially for those busy weeknights. You don’t need any fancy tools, you aren’t chopping up a million different ingredients, just simple steps for a delicious meal.
• Affordable: Ground beef, tortilla chips, cheese. Most are all pantry staples, and you aren’t spending big bucks on fancy ingredients and still able to feed your family a delicious meal.
• It’s customizable: You can make this dish extra cheesy, meaty, spicy, pack it with your favorite veggies, gluten free, low carb. Whatever fits your desires. It’s a blank canvas from here.
• It Will Feed a Crowd: Family dinner, game night, or even a potluck this taco bake will do it. It’s simple to make a big batch for a crowd and it’s one of those meals that will bring people back for seconds or even thirds!

This taco bake is the perfect cozy and cheesy dish to make any night of the week. Next time I think I might try it with chicken instead of ground beef. I think that would be so good as well! If you try it out let me know how you like it and tag me in your pictures. I’d love to see how yours turned out!

Questions for you.

1. Soft or hard shell tacos shells?
2. What are your favorite taco toppings?
3. What are some other recipes you’d like to see on my blog?