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Easy Taco Salads

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Easy Taco Salads – Love these easy salads filled with taco beef, kidney beans, and topped with Catalina dressing and all the fixings!
Easy Taco Salad | Diary of a Recipe Collector

These Easy Taco Salads are one of my favorite recipes to make!  Looking at this photo totally makes me want to make these again!  Even as a child I loved taco salads.  It’s a nice little change from regular tacos with the addition of kidney beans and Catalina dressing.  Pile on any fresh veggies you like and you are set!  If you are watching what you’re eating, it’s easy to use ground turkey too.

They would make a really great work lunch too.  Just pack up everything separately and you are good to go!

Easy Taco Salad | Diary of a Recipe Collector

I might just have to make these again this week!  I need quick and easy as usual.  My daughter has cheer practice every day but Wednesday.  On Wednesday, we have church.  We leave on Friday to head to New Orleans for her competition.  It will be her first one!  She’s on a “mini” team.  They are just so precious!  I’m so excited!

Hope you have a great week!  I’ll be back later in the week with an awesome pizza!

Easy Taco Salad | Diary of a Recipe Collector

Easy Taco Salads

Ingredients

  • 1 lb. ground beef
  • 1 taco seasoning packet plus recommended water on packet
  • 1 15 oz. can kidney beans, drained and rinsed
  • 1 cup iceberg lettuce, shredded or torn
  • 1 large tomato, chopped
  • 2 green onions, chopped
  • 1 avocado, diced
  • Catalina dressing
  • Shredded cheese
  • Bite size tortilla chips

Instructions

  1. Brown ground beef.
  2. Add taco seasoning packet and continue to cook according to package directions.
  3. Mix in kidney beans and cook for 4-5 more minutes and remove from heat.
  4. To serve: Add chips to bowl. Top with ground beef mixture, veggies, dressing, and shredded cheese.

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Category: Main Dish

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Jaren

Jaren

I am a wife to an awesome husband, mother of four great kids, and a middle school math teacher. I love collecting recipes and cookbooks! Being able to share the things I make with others is so much fun for me. I have gotten so many cookbooks and torn so many recipes out of magazines! This is my way to really make use of them. I am starting this blog as a way to chronicle the recipes I’ve tried and pass them along. I hope everyone enjoys!!!
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Comments

  4. Christie says

    I love putting a flavor like Mexican that I am craving into a salad. It is a fabulous way to enjoy the flavor without the calories. I would adore this salad right now.

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