One Pot Taco Beef and Rice

Change up your Taco Tuesday this week with our One Pot Taco Beef and Rice. A taco skillet recipe that’s quick, easy and delicious will soon become a family favorite taco alternative. With all the flavors of a taco, you can eat this easy taco rice recipe on it’s own or in taco shells.

Taco Beef And Rice Recipe

Ground beef and rice recipes can be oh so tasty when seasoned with the flavorings of a taco. Taco seasoning, garlic and onion combine with ground beef, tomato sauce and salsa, making our Mexican beef and rice skillet dinner one that you will want to serve over and over again.

Instant brown rice adds to the nutritious benefits of this ground beef recipe. A hearty skillet dinner that you can personalize with your favorite taco toppings! And it’s all made in one pot.

Serve it as a taco bowl or fill taco shells, either way you'll have yourself a delectable taco meal. Now that’s the way to make dinner folks!

Taco Beef and Rice served in a bowl and Taco Beef served in taco shells

Anytime I serve tacos is a good time for a taco party! But really, tacos are the best party food and I love the festive atmosphere when you have a taco fiesta.

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Start with hanging this Taco About A Party Banner (this makes me crack up every time!), add a colorful Serepe Plastic Tablecloth, and these adorable Fiesta Paper Striped Party Straws with Tacos, Sombreros and more on them.

Include a taco serving plate with all the sections for toppings and don your let's taco about it t-shirt (again, cracking up here!) and let the fiesta begin!

Serve our One Pot Taco Beef and Rice recipe or make a Walking Taco Bar for a really fun way to serve tacos or serve both!

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Love the ease of one pot cooking? Then you definitely must check out all of our one pot recipes. Recipes include skillet recipes, sheet pan recipes, casseroles and more!

How to make taco beef and rice

Scroll down for the full recipe instructions and ingredient amounts in the recipe card below

1. Over medium-high heat, heat a large non-stick skillet with deep sides.
2. Brown ground beef, onion, garlic and taco seasoning.
3. Add tomato sauce, salsa, brown rice and water.
4. Boil and then reduce heat to medium.
5. Cook, covered, until rice, about 10 minutes, until rice is tender.
6. Remove skillet from the heat and fluff with a fork.
7. Garnish with shredded cheese, chopped lettuce, sour cream, chopped tomatoes, sliced jalapenos and cilantro leaves
8. Serve in a bowl, in taco shells or in tortillas!

Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tips

• Use shredded taco cheese
• Top with storebought or homemade guacamole

Substitutions

• Make with ground turkey instead of ground beef
• Replace instant brown rice with instant white rice

What to serve with ground beef tacos

• Homemade Salsa
• Tomato Cucumber Salad
• Easy Mexican Guacamole from Jersey Girl Cooks

Ingredients for taco skillet with rice

• ground beef
• onion
• garlic
• taco seasoning
• tomato sauce
• salsa
• instant brown rice
• water
• cheddar jack cheese
• lettuce
• sour cream
• tomato
• jalapenos
• cilantro

Recipes With Ground Beef

• French Onion Burger
• Spaghetti and Meatballs
• Sloppy Joe Pockets

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Here at Swirls we have lots of taco recipe variations so you'll never get bored on Taco Tuesdays. From taco stuffed potatoes to taco pizza and beyond, we’ll have your Taco Tuesdays filled with a variety of taco-style recipes.

Make a Brown Rice Taco Bowl , with seasoned beef and salsa, creamy avocado, juicy tomatoes, cheddar cheese and red onion over good-for-you brown rice. All the flavors of a taco in a bowl for your next Taco Tuesday!

Change up Taco Tuesday with Taco Stuffed Potatoes, a twist on the traditional taco. Tender fluffy potatoes are topped with a saucy beef mixture, your favorite taco toppings and a surprise crunch of corn chips! Ready in just 25 minutes, Taco Tuesday just got a facelift!

Beef Taco Cups is an easy recipe that will soon become your favorite and fun way to celebrate Taco Tuesday! Tortillas bake into cute crunchy cups that are filled with our saucy beef mixture and taco toppings. So much fun for the kids!

.Taco Pizza With Cauliflower Crust puts a delicious twist on Taco Tuesday! Our pizza has all the fillings of a taco on a healthy plant-based cauliflower crust for a fun taco dinner that will quickly become a family favorite.

What to make it you’re eating vegan and it’s Taco Tuesday? Vegan Chickpea Tacos With Peach Salsa is an easy vegan recipe that’s packed with the protein of chickpeas and topped with a lime-scented fresh peach salsa! Now you can eat a plant based diet and have your tacos too!

Oven Roasted Cauliflower Tacos is a vegetarian taco recipe that's easy to make, flavorful and nutritious. Cauliflower slow roasts to delicious goodness and then combines with mushrooms giving a meaty flavor to this meatless taco filling.

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One Pot Taco Beef And Rice

Prep Time

10 mins

Cook Time

20 mins

Total Time

30 mins

 

Change up your Taco Tuesday this week with our One Pot Taco Beef and Rice. A taco skillet recipe that’s quick, easy and delicious will soon become a family favorite taco alternative. With all the flavors of a taco, you can eat this easy taco rice recipe on it’s own or in taco shells.

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Mexican

Keyword: beef and rice, mexican beef and rice skillet, one pot taco beef and rice, taco beef and rice, taco skillet

Servings: 4

Calories: 593 kcal

Author: Gwynn Galvin

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 lbs. ground beef
• ½ cup chopped onion
• 1 clove garlic , minced
• 2 Tbs. taco seasoning
• 1 can (15 ounces) tomato sauce
• 1 cup salsa
• 1 cup uncooked instant brown rice
• 2/3 cup water
• 1 cup shredded cheddar jack cheese
• 1 cup chopped lettuce
• sour cream
• 1 small tomato , chopped
• sliced jalapenos
• cilantro leaves

Instructions

1. Heat large non-stick skillet with deep sides over medium-high heat.

2. Cook ground beef, onion, garlic and taco seasoning until beef is browned.
3. Stir in tomato sauce, salsa, brown rice and water.
4. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium, cover and cook until rice is tender and most of the liquid is absorbed, about 10 minutes.
5. Remove from heat and fluff with a fork.
6. Top with shredded cheese, chopped lettuce, sour cream, chopped tomatoes, sliced jalapenos and cilantro leaves or your favorite toppings.
7. Serve on it’s own or in taco shells or tortillas!

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Recipe Notes

Makes 4 servings/about 6 cups.

Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tips

• Stir in chopped green chiles for added heat
• Substitute ground turkey for the ground beef

 

Nutrition Facts

One Pot Taco Beef And Rice

Amount Per Serving

Calories 593 Calories from Fat 342

% Daily Value*

Fat 38g58%

Saturated Fat 17g106%

Cholesterol 130mg43%

Sodium 838mg36%

Potassium 727mg21%

Carbohydrates 27g9%

Fiber 3g13%

Sugar 5g6%

Protein 35g70%

Vitamin A 1992IU40%

Vitamin C 8mg10%

Calcium 265mg27%

Iron 5mg28%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.