Tex-Mex Copycat Recipes

"I'm posting this recipe in response to seeing many inaccurate copycat recipes online. This is an extremely cheap and easy item to make but every other recipe is too complicated, uses too many ingredients, and adds things which were never in Taco Bell's version. They may be good additions but they aren't Taco Bell copycats!"

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Ingredients: medium cheddar, no-bean chili...

"This is a recipe that I got from my sister, who got it from her husband's cousin, and so on. It is pretty similar to the other copycat recipes listed, but this one uses cayenne instead of jalapeno."

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Ingredients: cilantro, buttermilk ranch salad dressing mix...

"I love these as a snack or appetizer"

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Ingredients: pepper, cumin, dried dill weed...

"I found this recipe on Y! Answers last week and finally tried it tonight. It did not disappoint. I used burrito size tortillas. I thought maybe that Taco Time's mixture is a little wetter, but the taste is spot-on! I used about 1/4 of a large onion and used a chopper. *Update - added some water as it was warming and it definitely helped. I..."

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Ingredients: ground cumin, instant beef bouillon...

"It's been such a long time since I enjoyed a meal at Cafe Rio, I honestly can't remember if this even resembles the sweet pork there. However, it is very tasty and great for a crowd."

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Ingredients: Coke, pepper, cumin...

"I've been making this dressing for about 20 years now; it's especially good on tostada salads or just a simple green dinner salad. The recipe is from the El Torito Restaurant in Los Angeles and was published in the LA Times reader request column."

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Ingredients: sherry wine vinegar, Dijon mustard...

"Nachos cooked on tostados with beans, chili and cheese. Great for the game with cold beer. This is really good with leftover fajita meat, shredded chicken, cripy bacon, bbq brisket, pulled pork or taco meat. Another twist is subsitute chopped chipotles in adobo sauce instead of sliced jalepenos. You can always cut the tostados after pulling from oven..."

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Ingredients: colby-monterey jack cheese, tostados...

"This is a makeover of grandma2929's Recipe #118627 into a lighter healthier and lower sodium version. I don't think flavor was compromised on here."

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Ingredients: cumin, jalapeno juice...

"This is my holy grail of recipes. I have tried for 12 years to sneak this out of this hole in the wall restaurant a stones throw from Cowboy Stadium. I have paid 2 cooks to sneak it out...both of which got fired before the recipe made it to me, and have spent 10's of dollars getting waitresses, hostesses and anyone else affiliated with the place tipsy..."

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Ingredients: vegetable oil, white vinegar...

"Here's a south-of-the-border lunch or snack, compliments of *All You* (a new magazine). Use less or more hot sauce depending on how much SpIcE you like!"

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Ingredients: chopped tomatoes, flour tortillas...

"I love the Meximelts at Taco Bell. However, I don't eat there a lot because sometimes, it gives me a tummy ache. But when I do, there are only two things I order-EVER! Chili-cheese burritos and Meximelts. One of my gal-pals worked there and told me what was in one. I couldn't figure it out because I was too busy inhaling it. So...here's my take..."

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Ingredients: monterey jack pepper cheese, flour tortillas...