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 and will soon become your family's favorite taco alternative. With all the flavors of a taco, you can eat this easy taco rice recipe on its own or in taco shells.
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.
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Taco Beef And Rice Recipe
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 this taco rice recipe is 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!
You can even serve your taco casserole in a tortilla cup!
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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Check out another fun and creative way to serve tacos, a taco charcuterie board!
And be sure to check out my leftover taco meat recipe ideas too!
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
- Over medium-high heat, heat a large non-stick skillet with deep sides.
- Brown ground beef, onion, garlic and taco seasoning.
- Add tomato sauce, salsa, brown rice and water.
- Boil and then reduce heat to medium.
- Cook, covered, until rice, about 10 minutes, until rice is tender.
- Remove skillet from the heat and fluff with a fork.
- Garnish with shredded cheese, chopped lettuce, sour cream, chopped tomatoes, sliced jalapenos and cilantro leaves
- Serve in a bowl, in taco shells or in tortillas!
Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tips
- Use shredded taco cheese
- Top with store bought or homemade guacamole
Substitutions
- Make with ground turkey instead of ground beef
- Substitute ground chicken for the ground beef
- Replace instant brown rice with instant white rice
- Shredded taco cheese or shredded cheddar cheese can be substituted for cheddar jack cheese
What to serve with ground beef tacos
- Homemade Salsa
- Tomato Cucumber Salad
- Jalapeno Cornbread
- Easy Mexican Guacamole from Jersey Girl Cooks
Equipment
- skillet with deep sides
- measuring cups
- measuring spoons
- Kitchen scale
- wooden spoon
- chef knife
- cutting board
Ingredients
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
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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.
One Pot Taco Beef And Rice
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Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 pounds ground beef
- ½ cup chopped onion
- 1 clove garlic , minced
- 2 Tablespoons 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
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Instructions
- Heat large non-stick skillet with deep sides over medium-high heat.
- Cook ground beef, onion, garlic and taco seasoning until beef is browned.
- Stir in tomato sauce, salsa, brown rice and water.
- 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.
- Remove from heat and fluff with a fork.
- Top with shredded cheese, chopped lettuce, sour cream, chopped tomatoes, sliced jalapenos and cilantro leaves or your favorite toppings.
- Serve on it’s own or in taco shells or tortillas!
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Notes
- Use shredded taco cheese
- Top with store bought or homemade guacamole
- Make with ground turkey instead of ground beef
- Substitute ground chicken for the ground beef
- Replace instant brown rice with instant white rice
This recipe was quick and easy and very good. I will keep it.
Very Good.
I am so happy to hear that you enjoyed my recipe Delores! Thank you so much for taking the time to let me know and give the recipe 5 stars. I truly appreciate it. Continue to Savor The Moments, Gwynn
This looks amazing! I'm featuring it in my Meal Plan Monday email today. Thank you!
Thanks so much Christy!
Thank you so much for sharing this amazing recipe! Will surely have this again! It's really easy to make and it tasted so delicious! Highly recommended!
My family loved this and so did I. So tasty and easy to boot. Will be making again in the near future.
Thank you for this share! I needed a new taco Tuesday recipe for this week!
Thanks for sharing that Jessica. So happy to hear that you will be making this recipe again. Happy cooking, GG