Do You Have A Good Taco Salad Recipe?

Marilyn Sue

17 years ago

I want to make a taco salad this coming weekend. What's your favorite recipe?

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cynic
17 years ago
I don't use a recipe. Essentially I put together a chef's salad on a bed of meat covered chips (preferably taco or ranch flavored) and interlaced with taco sauce and a couple salad dressings, probably Western and Ranch.
sushipup1
17 years ago
It's an assembly, not a recipe. Use a packaged taco seasoning to prepare ground beef or finely chopped stew meat. Lettuce, shredded cheese, salsa, chopped onions/green onions, chopped or sliced olives, chopped tomatoes, maybe crushed taco chips, sour cream (look for the Truly Yours fat-free variety). Whatever you can put together works just fine.
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I'm not so crazy about the winter hot house baby salad mixes. No flavor, just pretty. Seems the dressing is the carrier of flavor. Baby arugula at least has some 'meat' to it like some spinach varieties. I do like the idea of fig, proscuitto, parm. And a toasted nut. Not sure the rest of your menu but that would compliment just about anything. I make a ginger/sesame dressing for salad but it does not go well with some main courses following. As an app away from the table an hour before sitting is fine. Like a spring roll... A sit down salad i think should be considerate of the following meal. I've been making a warm salad of escarole, shallot, leek, celeriac, golden beet slivers...and just a bit of fresh lemon. Then anything i have in the crisper and pepitas or toasted pecans. It has been hit since before Thanksgiving. (when i added shredded brussels). Sometimes quick broiled slices of goat cheese. -pressed into some seasoned olive oil panko, seasoned side up...I have a bag of dried dates that i need to use. Might do well softened for a warm dressing with a chopped slice of bacon or procuitto pan seared with a shallot. I always have olives and feta... Boston lettuce is a nice winter salad cup or torn. Come cold February-March i often put Boston on my list. Nice and buttery. It seems to like, and stand up, to a semi-warm dressing. Just my experience years past when i loved and over-did the sesame/ginger dressing...now used often with a nut/sesame chicken crust or Asian dumplings...or a miso seared beef soup/broth. DH is chopping right now for a warm escarole salad and a French green lentil salad to top it...the main meal is a brothy tomato based soup with fridge crisper drawer 'kitchen sink' soup. Freezer finds like corn and roasted tomatoes from the garden.
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1 1/2 heads lettuce
1 can kidney beans (drained)
tomato
bell pepper
avocado
can sliced olives drained
chopped red onion
1 lb ground meat,seasoned & browned
cheddar cheese grated
bag of taco chips
2 T jalapena salsa
8 oz thousand island dressing
bigfoot_liz
17 years ago
mine is similiar to sushipup's. we use taco meat & mix it w/ a can of refried beans (usually fat free) to heat it up. we make a salad w/ lettuce, chopped tomatoes/olives/avocadoes/scallions/tomatillos, shredded mex cheeses, etc... we top the salad mix w/ spoon fulls of the meat mix, sour cream, and salsa drizzled over with a side of tortilla chips. ~ liz
patti43
17 years ago
Funny you ask--that's what's for dinner tonight. I make it like sushipup--lettuce topped with the ground beef/taco seasoning mix, then sliced green onions, sliced black olives, avocado slices, chopped tomatoes and cheese. We just top with salsa and I have sour cream on the side--Harry puts his on top. Serve with the chips--sometimes I crush them or I just leave them whole and eat with it.

If I was making it for a group though, I'd make Linda's.
carla35
17 years ago
This is a variation on a taco salad ;-). It's more of a Southwestern type salad but is one of my all time favorite salads! (It sort of reminds me of Applebee's Santa Fe Salad). The dressing is to die for. I add a couple spoons of salsa to it.

Here is a link that might be useful: Cal. Salad Bowl
patti43
17 years ago
Oh Carla, thank you! I'm making your salad dressing for our salad tonight.

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