Friday Recipe

Beef Tortilla Taco Casserole 

Pillsbury recipe
on Pillsbury.com


We made this last night. Since the recipe serves 8 and makes an 9 X 13 pan, I cut the recipe down to work with our 6X10 pan to serve 4 instead.

Basically:

• spray your baking pan with a cooking spray 
• line the bottom of the pan with flour tortillas , cut to fit. 
• In a skillet, I placed my already cooked and de fatted ground beef, salsa, corn, taco seasoning part of a bell pepper and a little water.   
• simmer the skillet a little while to combine the flavors. 
• layer meat mixture on top of the tortillas , 
• then a layer of Mexican blend cheese ( they used Monterrey Jack blend, shredded) 
• repeat a layer of tortillas, meat mixture and cheese. 
• bake in a 350 degree oven 35 to 40 minutes or until it is bubbly around the edges and the cheese is melted.   

You can also make this a freezer meal. 

My take on freezer meals is that I have precious little freezer space and I don't want to take up space with ingredients that don't need to be frozen.   I can, however, see where if the culinary expert of the family is going to be away at dinner time, and the culinary challenged are left to dinner, it can be an asset to have a few freezer meals.  

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