Jun 20, Ground Beef Taco Recipe

This Ground Beef Taco Recipe is for all the taco junkies that love Taco Bells Double Decker. The taco has a soft shell layer with refried beans and inside is a ground beef loaded hard shell.

These are great tacos and you can top them up with whatever you like but I like to really load mine up. One can be a whole meal at my house!

Homemade beef tacos that beats Taco Bell!!!

Double Decker Ground Beef Taco

This recipe calls for taco seasoning mix in the little packets from the grocery but you would be much better off making your own using our Homemade Taco Seasoning Mix Recipe.

Ingredients

1 pound ground beef
1 (1 ounce) packet taco seasoning mix, divided
1 (16 ounce) can refried beans
2/3 cup water
12 prepared crisp taco shells

2 avocados
1 tablespoon sour cream
1 fresh lime, juiced
salt and black pepper to taste

12 (7 inch) flour tortillas
2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese
1 cup shredded lettuce
1 large tomato, chopped
1/4 red onion, chopped
1/2 cup sour cream

Directions

Place the ground beef in a skillet over medium heat, and sprinkle about 3/4 of the packet of taco seasoning over the meat. Cook and stir the ground beef, breaking it up as it cooks, until the beef is browned and crumbly, 10 to 15 minutes. Drain the excess grease.

Mash the refried beans with the water in a small saucepan, and sprinkle with the rest of the seasoning packet. Heat the refried beans over low heat until simmering.

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Place the crisp taco shells on a baking sheet, and warm them in the preheated oven for 3 to 5 minutes.

To make the guacamole, peel, seed, and mash the avocados in a bowl with 1 tablespoon of sour cream, the lime juice, and salt and pepper to taste, and set aside.

To build the tacos, spread each flour tortilla with about 2 tablespoons of heated refried beans. Wrap the tortilla gently around a crisp tortilla shell. Spread about 2 tablespoons of ground beef along the bottom of the crisp shell, and sprinkle about 2 tablespoons of shredded Cheddar cheese on top of the meat.

Top the cheese with shredded lettuce, a sprinkle of chopped tomato and onion, and a dollop of sour cream and guacamole.

I think these beef tacos are really better than Taco Bells. Just like Taco Bells, however, if you don't eat them right after making them up you'll lose the crunch of the hard shell.

You can really load them up, though, and not worry about the shell exploding. Great stuff! You just gotta' try this super Double Decker Ground Beef Taco Recipe.

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