This Easy Taco Pasta Salad has all the features of a great taco salad – seasoned ground beef, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, sour cream, and crushed corn chips.
INGREDIENTS
- ½ lb ground beef
- ½ lb rotini pasta
- 2 Tablespoons Taco seasoning, I use my famous taco seasoning
- ½ sweet pepper, yellow, chopped
- ¼ small onion, diced
- ½ pint cherry tomatoes
- 1 cup cheddar, shredded
- ½ head iceberg lettuce, some stores carry iceberg already shredded
- ½ cup French dressing
- ¼ cup sour cream
- 1 1/2 cup nacho cheese Doritos, crushed roughly
DIRECTIONS
- Cook beef in a pan over medium high heat. Once meat starts to brown, add in the taco seasoning. Once cooked, drain access grease and set aside.
- Meanwhile, in a pot, cook the rotini according to package directions. When pasta is cooked, drain and run cool water over it to cool.
- In a large bowl, add together all ingredients and mix until well combined.
If you'd like to kick it up a notch check this variation out!
- 8 oz Rotini Pasta
- 1 pound Ground Beef
- 1 cup Corn
- 1 can Black Beans rinsed and drained
- 1 cup Cheddar Cheese
- 1/2 Monterey Jack Cheese
- 1 pint Cherry Tomatoes
- 1 Red Onion chopped
- 1 Green Bell Pepper chopped
- 1 Jalapeno chopped
- 1 packet Taco Seasoning
- 1/2 cup Cilantro chopped
- 1/2 cup Beef Broth
- 1 /2 cup Sour Cream
- 1/2 cup Salsa
- 1/4 cup Crushed Doritos
- Juice of 1 Lime
