Tacky Mexican beef and bean bake

A bubbly casserole of types, this Mexican beef and bean is sort of a baked model of chilli con carne with plenty of melty cheese – however quicker to make. Consider it like your final all-purpose Mexican beef – stuff in tacos, DIY burrito wraps, dunk with corn chips – like nachos!

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Tacky Mexican beef and bean bake

I can’t keep in mind how this Mexican beef and bean dish first got here to be. All I do know is that when it got here out of the oven in all its bubbly, melty tacky glory, I wished to get caught into instantly however paralysed with indecision for the way. So many choices!

Like chili, with a heat tortillas on the facet for dunking??

Overhead photo of Cheesy Mexican beef and bean casserole with tortillas

OR with corn chips, deconstructed nachos type?

Scooping up Cheesy Mexican beef and bean casserole with corn chips

Making stuffed tortilla pillows?? Which, I realised, is only a burrito really. 😂 *Mild-bulb-moment* DIY burritos! Add a pile of heat tortillas, bitter cream + guacamole or fast avocado sauce for dunking. Everyone make your personal!

Cheesy Mexican beef and bean casserole burrito style

All-inclusive-taco filling? So juicy and tacky already, it’s like an excellent ole’ basic beef mince taco filling + taco sauce + cheese, all rolled into one. Effectivity, for the win!

Then one other light-bulb second. That is like the final word all-purpose Mexican beef filling!! It’s virtually a little bit regarding how excited I used to be after I got here to this conclusion. Good meals has a behavior of doing that to me. 🤭


What you want for Mexican beef and beans

Right here’s what it’s essential make this Mexican beef and bean bake:

Ingredients in Cheesy Mexican beef and bean casserole

This can be a informal, rustic dish – which suggests, plenty of flexibility. I’m not so relaxed with substitutions for some recipes, so take it when you possibly can! 😂

  • Floor beef / beef mince – Or hen, turkey or pork. Any of those would work. (Even lamb really).

  • Crimson onion – Or bizarre brown / yellow onions.

  • Inexperienced capsicum (bell pepper) – Or different color capsicum, or different sauté-able greens like diced zucchini/courgette, carrot, inexperienced beans (chopped), corn. Even a cup of diced blended frozen greens would work right here!

  • Crimson kidney beans – Or black beans (on theme with Mexican meals), or another beans of selection. Or, extra greens.

  • Tomato passata – That is pureed, strained tomato that’s easy, relatively than lump like canned tomato. Substituted with crushed canned tomato, or what’s referred to as tomato sauce or tomato puree within the US (eg Hunts).

  • Pickled jalapeno – Provides a sprinkle of spiciness plus tang as a result of it’s pickled which is good on this beefy dish. Canned chopped inexperienced chillies could be a wonderful sub right here (however this can be a US factor, hoping it turns into a staple right here in Australia one among today!).

  • Garlic – Can’t be versatile right here! 🙂

  • Cheese – Positively not versatile right here! Effectively, not versatile concerning the inclusion of some type of melting cheese. I’ve opted for Colby – provides flavour, melts nicely, will get a pleasant little bit of golden color on the floor, not too greasy. Be at liberty to make use of any of selection. In case you use mozzarella, I’d counsel including a sprinkling of parmesan on high (as a result of mozzarella, whereas it melts fantastically, doesn’t have a a lot flavour).

The Mexican spice combine

And right here’s what you want for the do-it-yourself Mexican spice combine. Some Mexican recipes I share have an extended checklist of spices. For me, that is concerning the minimal you possibly can go with out the flavour lacking one thing. All staple spices! (You may substitute smoked paprika with plain).

Spices for Cheesy Mexican beef and bean casserole

How you can make Tacky Mexican beef and beans

It’s like chili cone carne – however quicker to make as a result of by ending it off within the oven with a beneficiant sprinkling of cheese, we will skip the range simmer.

How to make Cheesy Mexican beef and bean casserole
  1. Sauté the onion, garlic and capsicum first. Use an ovenproof skillet. Pictured is my much-loved 26cm / 10.5″Lodge forged iron skillet (my important kitchenware checklist is right here!).

  2. Prepare dinner the meat, breaking it up as you go.

  3. Toast the spices with the meat. Good technique to deliver out flavour in spices plus get higher flavour into beef mince / floor beef – FAST. 🙂

  4. Add beans and tomato passata, give it an excellent combine then deliver to a simmer.

  5. High with cheese then bake for quarter-hour simply to soften the cheese.

  6. Take away from oven and begin the agonising means of deciding the best way to serve it! Tacos? Corn chip dunking? Burrito stuffing? ENCHILADAS? Nachos?? #FirstWorldProblems

Cheesy Mexican beef and bean casserole fresh out of the oven
Cheesy Mexican beef and bean casserole dinner

Sides / toppings

Pictured in put up for serving in all of the above listed types are:

  • Guacamole, and typically avocado sauce (basically a easy, quicker model of guac)

  • Pico de gallo (contemporary tomato salsa). Additionally this pureed tomato salsa could be nice.

  • Bitter cream (sub yogurt)

  • Recent coriander/cilantro

  • Tortillas – small ones and bigger enchilada dimension ones (for making small burritos).

  • Corn chips – for dunking

Different glorious choices contains:

– Nagi x


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Tacky baked Mexican beef and beans

Servings5 – 6

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Recipe video above. A bubbly casserole of types, this Mexican beef and bean is sort of a baked model of chilli con carne with plenty of melty cheese – however quicker to make. Consider it like your final all-purpose Mexican beef – stuff in tacos, DIY burrito wraps, dunk with corn chips – like nachos! 

Directions

  • Preheat oven to 200°C / 400°F (180°C).

  • Sauté – Warmth the olive oil in a cast-iron skillet over medium excessive warmth (or different oven-proof pan). Prepare dinner onion, garlic and capsicum for 3 minutes.

  • Prepare dinner beef & spices – Add beef and cook dinner, breaking it up as you go, till you now not see uncooked meat. Add spices, then cook dinner for 1 minute.

  • Beans & tomato – Add kidney beans and passata. Stir, then deliver to a simmer.

  • Cheese it! Scatter the jalapeño throughout the floor, high with cheese.

  • Bake quarter-hour (no lid) then take away from the oven.

  • Serve! Scoop into bowls and serve with corn chips or tortillas together with your favorite Mexican fixings (guacamole or avocado sauce pico de gallo or restaurant type salsa, contemporary coriander/coriander, bitter cream). Dunk like nachos, make DIY burritos or tacos!

Recipe Notes:

Servings – This can serve 5 to six folks relying on the way you serve it. As a burrito or taco stuffing, it would simply serve 6 if not 7 folks, when you issue within the toppings. If served with corn chips for dunking, it would in all probability serve 5 (as a result of corn chips is much less bulk than tortillas).
1. Meat – Recipe will work nice with hen, turkey or pork. Really,even lamb!
2. Passata – this can be a thick easy tomato puree, see right here for extra data. Substitute with crushed tomato or what’s referred to as “tomato sauce” or “tomato puree” within the US (eg. Hunts).
3. Pickled jalapeno is terrific right here for one thing a little bit tangy and a little bit of spiciness. Be at liberty to omit.
4. Cheese – any good melting cheese can be utilized right here, besides if utilizing mozzarella I’d add a handful of parmesan on high as a result of mozzarella, whereas a wonderful melting cheese, doesn’t even have that a lot flavour (this recipe depends on cheese for further flavour increase for a fast recipe).
Leftovers will maintain for 3 days within the fridge or 3 months within the freezer.
Diet per serving, assuming 6 servings, beef and bean solely (ie not toppings).

Diet Info:

Energy: 440cal (22%)Carbohydrates: 19g (6%)Protein: 28g (56%)Fats: 28g (43%)Saturated Fats: 12g (75%)Polyunsaturated Fats: 2gMonounsaturated Fats: 12gTrans Fats: 1gLdl cholesterol: 88mg (29%)Sodium: 994mg (43%)Potassium: 702mg (20%)Fiber: 6g (25%)Sugar: 5g (6%)Vitamin A: 1492IU (30%)Vitamin C: 32mg (39%)Calcium: 294mg (29%)Iron: 4mg (22%)

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