Doritos Taco Casserole
All your favorite taco flavors baked into an easy to make casserole that's topped with crushed Dorito's and melty cheese. Everyone loves this meal!
Equipment
- Oven safe casserole dish.
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground beef
- ½ medium onion, chopped
- 1 small red bell pepper, seeded and diced
- 1 oz taco seasoning
- ½ cup water
- 14.5 oz Rotel diced tomatoes with green chilis, drained
- 1 cup sour cream
- 9¼ oz bag of Cool Ranch or Nacho Cheese flavored Doritos, crushed
- 3 cups Colby Jack cheese, shredded
Toppings:
- 1 large tomato, chopped
- 2 cups Iceberg lettuce, shredded
- ½ cup sour cream
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350℉.
- Spray an oven safe casserole dish with non-stick spray. Set aside.
- Brown ground beef in a large skillet over medium heat, breaking it up into small crumbles with a wooden spoon as it cooks.
- Add diced onion and continue to cook until onions soften.
- Add diced red bell pepper and continue to cook for a few more minutes till they soften.
- Drain off excess grease.
- Add taco seasoning and water to the pan.
- Simmer until the liquid in the pan evaporates and beef mixture thickens.
- Stir in drained Rotel and sour cream. Stir to combine everything together.
- Place ⅓ of the crushed chips in the bottom of the prepared casserole dish in an even layer.
- Spoon ½ the beef mixture over the chips in the casserole dish in an even layer.
- Top with a 1½ cups of shredded cheese.
- Top with another ⅓ of the chips.
- Top with the remaining ½ of the beef mixture.
- Finish with the remaining ⅓ of the crushed chips and a final layer of shredded cheese.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 20-25 minutes or until cheese is melted and hot and bubbly.
- Top each serving with shredded lettuce, chopped tomatoes and a dollop of sour cream.