Taco Cups
These easy to make and easy to eat Taco Cups are a great appetizer for any occasion, and easy enough for a weeknight dinner. With a handful of ingredients, and about 10 minutes, you can have these mini tacos ready to serve!
If your family loves tacos – and who doesn’t – they will love these Taco Cups! They are bite sized and perfect for an appetizer, or add multiple appetizers for a fun dinner.
The Taco Cups are full of flavor, easy to eat, and really satisfying! They are filling enough to be dinner – a dinner of all appetizers is my favorite kind! You can eat these plain or dunk them in salsa or sour cream.
To keep it super easy, these Mini Taco Cups are made with Scoops chips, another fun idea are Wonton Tacos made with wonton wraps.
How to make Mini Tacos
- Begin by making your favorite taco meat. Here is what we like – brown 1 pound of ground beef or turkey and drain it, then add salsa and taco seasoning
- Lay out the mini taco shells onto a cookie sheet or in a muffin tin – we like to use Scoops chips, you can also cut a tortilla shell into a round circle, or use wontons
- Next, spread refried beans into the chips
- Top with the meat and sprinkle with cheese
10 minutes in the oven and your Taco Cups are ready! I love that these are bite sized – and you don’t even really need a plate!
Serve the Taco Cups with sour cream, salsa, green onions and any of your favorite Mexican toppings like these easy Pickled Jalapenos.
Looking for more fun appetizers to serve at your next party? Click on the photo for the recipe.
Taco Cups
Perfect for an appetizer, snack for Movie Night, or even a side dish for Mexican night.
Ingredients
- Tostitos Scoops Chips
- 1 pound ground beef or turkey, cooked and drained
- 2 tablespoons Taco Seasoning
- 1 cup of Salsa
- 1 can Refried Beans - you will use about ¼ of the can
- 1 cup Mexican Blend Shredded Cheese
- Toppings - sour cream, green onions and cilantro, optional
Instructions
- Cook and drain ground beef, add taco seasoning and salsa, continue to cook taco meat
- Set Scoops on a mini muffin pan or large cookie sheet. Using a butter knife, spread a small amount of beans into chip
- Add a spoonful of taco meat
- Top with cheese
- Bake at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes or until cheese is completely melted
- Top with Sour Cream, Green Onions, Cilantro or other toppings you like
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 42 Serving Size: 7Amount Per Serving: Calories: 63Total Fat: 4gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 15mgSodium: 146mgCarbohydrates: 3gFiber: 1gSugar: 0gProtein: 5g
Looks great ! Can you eat these at room temp. or will they get to soggie. Want to make for appitezer to take to someones house.
Hi Maryan, I would serve the Taco Cups warm. They will taste better that way.
-Liz
Wow! This looks really really good. I am now craving for some tacos. Will definitely try this one. Thank you so much for sharing this.
last year, for the Super Bowl, we made ten new recipes, and this was the stand out… it’s the only one getting repeated this year (we love to try new things, so for something to get repeated is a HUGE deal.)
my sister-in-law and i have been obsessively working on our super bowl menu for the last week (we love appetizers, so this is a lot of fun for us) and these were a definite addition to our menu! thanks for the idea! can’t wait for sunday, as i’m drooling just looking at your pictures…
Nice. Perfect for parties, or any day! 🙂
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GREAT!!! idea and LOVE these for Supper Bowl Sunday.
That sounds really good and easy. We have to bring a lot of appetizers to functions and I think this would be different.