Taco Pasta Casserole
"This is a casserole I came up with when I worked in a group home where I had to cook dinner for 6 grown men. Please note: some of these are estimates as I honestly don't know the exact size on some of these containers for Zaar's computer. Use whatever you can find in your store (12, 8, 16 ounce)"
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
-
6-8
ingredients
- 1 lb ground beef or 1 lb turkey
- 1 (3 ounce) packet taco seasoning
- 1 (12 ounce) jar salsa
- 1 lb pasta, whatever shapes you have on hand (Elbows, Wagon Wheels, Penne)
- 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese, divided
- 8 ounces sour cream (optional)
- 16 ounces sliced black olives (optional)
- 1 head lettuce
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Cook Pasta until done.
- While pasta is cooking brown the ground beef.
- Drain ground beef and add taco seasoning per packet directions.
- Drain Pasta and put into large mixing bowl.
- Fold in Salsa, 1/2 the Cheese, and Ground Meat.
- Put into 13X9 casserole dish.
- Top with remaining Cheese.
- Bake for 30 minutes until warmed through - Cheese should be melted and bubbly.
- Top with Sour Cream, Shredded Lettuce, Sliced Black Olives etc. Whatever you use to top your tacos!
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Reviews
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this was just great. I did have a bag of Santita's corn chips that was crushed up in my pantry. I put that on top after the cheese and then baked it. Dinner got me rave reviews tonight.
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I am a 24 year old nursing student living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. My partner and I got married in Toronto, Ontario, Canada a little over a year ago, and I love trying new recipes for him.
Most of the things I create are creations from food items I receive from my grandmother. She has a wonderful church organization near her home which delivers grocery items to Senior Citizens on a lower fixed income. As wonderful as this organization is, they always deliver my grandmother things of which she will never use. The woman is 80 years old and they give her an entire case of 24 cans of cooked Pork in a can. What they expect her to do with all of that, I don't know!
Most would ask why doesn't she refuse, and at times she has turned away food donations. However, if she isn't at home they leave it on her porch. I always end up getting things that she isn't going to use. My grandmother always tells me "I am sure you can think of something! You can always make a soup with it." What she fails to understand is that I don't like soup of any kind.
This is why many times when I create a recipe I will often have items in the recipe that I will whole heartedly admit that I don't know where you would find them in your local grocery store! I personally have never seen cooked pork in a can in any of my local grocery stores, for example.
