What do you put in your taco salad? Do you eat taco salad? Taco salad is one of my favorite meals. It is probably one of my favorite meals for several reasons. One reason is it is raw veggies and meat with tortilla chips, that is just a winning combination to me. Another reason is when we have it, it usually translates into at least two meals — you know I love leftovers. And another reason is, usually when we have it my husband has made it. I had taco salad with my friends once and they laughed at me because the only thing “taco” about my taco salad is the tortilla chips and the “taco seasoning” in the meat. Since I was the one that started making the taco salad in our relationship I have “infected” my husband with my idea of or the way I make taco salad. We do it a little different.
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Taco Salad
1 lb Ground Turkey
1 package of taco seasoning
tortilla chips
lettuce
shredded cheese
olives
onions
pickles
bell peppers
cucumbers
broccoli
carrots
sour cream
salsa
Cook the meat with the seasoning. You can use the directions on the package or not. I don’t, I saute some onions then add the meat. While the meat is cooking I put in the seasoning. My hubby follows the directions on the package. Whatever works for you.
The lettuce is chopped or the kind from a bag. The olives are chopped or sliced, either by you or that is the way you bought them. The onions . . . I like red, but whatever color will do, even scallions. Whatever they are they are chopped.
Pickles are chopped. So are the bell peppers, cucumbers, broccoli, and carrots.
Then you just layer it in your individual bowl. My husband and I do ours individually since we both like different things in our salads. We also do our layers differently. Then he adds salsa and sour cream. I don’t add any of that. We both crumble our tortilla chips on top. One time I forgot them. I remembered them after I was half way through eating my salad.
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As you can see there are no beans. I don’t like beans, so I have never put beans in my “taco salad”. And, like I said, since I have always made it like that my poor husband doesn’t get beans in his salad. I don’t know if he would like them, but we don’t think to get them. Also, I believe pickles are a weird ingredient for a taco salad. I cannot tell you how that started. It might sound odd, but it works really well . . . I think. For me it is a MUST, the pickles are a source of moisture for my salad since I don’t add any dressing, salsa, or sour cream.
I believe we have had tomatoes in our taco salad before. Basically any veggie that we would put in a salad we could add to our taco salad. The first nine ingredients on the list are the “must-haves”.
Do you eat taco salad? What do you put in your taco salad?
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