Taco Salad with Homemade Tortilla Bowls
Updated March 26, 2019
Taco Salad served in Homemade Tortilla Bowls-the best way to eat taco salad!
Looking for a quick and easy dinner recipe? We’ve got you covered today! We are sharing one of our favorite weeknight meals-Taco Salad with Homemade Tortilla Bowls.
Taco salad has always been one of my favorite meals, I could eat it every night. Josh gets a little bored with taco salad though. I think it’s the salad thing. He never complains, but I can tell he isn’t thrilled when I say taco salad is on the dinner menu:) If I tell him we are having Taco Salad with Homemade Tortilla Bowls, he gets excited. It’s amazing what a simple Homemade Tortilla Bowl can do! These bowls are magic!
So how do you make these fancy schmancy bowls? It’s really easy, I promise. All you need are burrito sized flour tortillas, cooking spray, and oven safe bowls. Place the tortillas in greased oven safe bowls and bake them until crispy! They will only take about 15 minutes to crisp up.
And if you want to make the tortilla bowls extra special, you can add a little cheese! Sprinkle shredded cheese in the center of the bowls a few minutes before the bowls are done baking. The cheese gets nice and melted. No wonder Josh loves these bowls so much. Look at that cheesy goodness!
We fill our tortilla bowls with our favorite taco salad fixins’! Our favorites include: lettuce, black beans, tomato, green onion, cilantro, shredded cheese, and avocado. I also like to add a big dollop of Creamy Avocado Dip for the dressing. Go wild and add your favorite taco salad toppings. We always go the vegetarian route, but you can add chicken, beef, or pork!
Jazz up taco salad night by making Homemade Tortilla Bowls! They are fun to make and fun to eat! And the best part, you don’t have to do any dishes. You eat your bowl so clean up is a breeze!
Go bowl crazy and and make Cinnamon Sugar Tortilla Ice Cream Bowls for dessert! Gotta love these edible bowls!
Taco Salad with Homemade Tortilla Bowls
Ingredients
For the tortilla bowls:
- 6 oven safe bowls
- Cooking spray
- 6 burrito size flour tortillas
- Shredded cheddar cheese optional
For the taco salad:
- Lettuce
- Black Beans rinsed, drained, and heated
- Tomatoes diced
- Green onion chopped
- Cilantro chopped
- Shredded cheese
- Creamy Avocado Dressing
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Coat the inside of oven safe bowls with cooking spray. Gently press tortilla inside bowl. Place bowls on two large baking sheets. Bake for 14-16 minutes or until evenly browned. If using cheese, remove tortilla bowls from oven 2-3 minutes before they are done baking. Sprinkle with cheese and return to oven. Finish baking until cheese is melted. Let tortilla bowls cool in bowls for 5 minutes before transferring to wire cooling rack.
- Fill the tortilla bowls with your favorite taco salad fixings! We like to use lettuce, black beans, diced tomatoes, green onion, cilantro, shredded cheese, and creamy avocado dressing.
- Note-you can make the tortilla bowls in advance. They will keep in an air tight container or Ziploc bag for up to 2 days. You can also add shredded chicken, beef, or pork!
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I love this! These would be a great lunch idea for the kids. They would totally get into the fact they could eat the bowl. Not to mention dip it as well:)
Your directions worked great. Thanks for the info.
What size oven bowl do you use to cook these in? How many ounces? Thank you
thank you for sharing, it is delicious taste
Since I’ve been eating gluten/wheat free for ten years and not eating corn, I’m going to make these taco bowls using almond flour tortillas!
Where on earth do you find almond flour tortillas
Delicious! I had to make a few changes: my bowls are not oven safe to 375º so I lined one with foil, put in a tortilla, removed the foil “bowl” and reshaped it gently so the bowl was a bit wider and more scalloped, less folded on itself. (I used soft taco size tortillas as they fit my bowl. ) I did this for 4 tortillas. I baked them in the foil as directed. They came out perfect! With the suggested fillings and others (Spanish rice and Cuban-style black beans), we had a delicious dinner. I appreciate the versatility of such a meal, the ease of preparation, and the much more delicious taste of homemade. Thanks.
My son wants tortilla bowls for his taco salad he is making and we do not have oven safe bowls and cupcake pans seemed too small! Thank you for sharing the idea about the foil bowls!! Genius!!
We will be making these soon!!
Hi Maria
I love this salad but now because of health need to know the nutrition values. I tried to put this in a nutrition site but it was not allowed, can you give the nutrition values for this or release it so I can put it into a nutrition site. thank you AC