Damn Good Taco Soup
This comes from a good friend, and it sounds delicious. On my to cook list for sure. Several shortcuts to use for cost savings as well as preparing dried beans. Links to the shortcuts are listed in the Recipe Notes section.
Ingredients
- 500 grams ground beef
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 1 packet taco seasoning mix, OR make from a shortcut
- 1 packet dry ranch dressing mix, OR make from a shortcut
- 1 can toasted corn, OR 2 cups of fried corn from shortcut
- 1 can black beans, or 1 1/2 cups cooked from dry beans
- 1 can red Kidney beans, or 1 1/2 cups cooked from dry beans
- 1 cup fresh tomatoes, diced
- 2-4 green Bird's Eye chilies, chopped
- tomato juice, as needed
Instructions
- Brown the ground beef in a medium sized pot, drain the fat, then add the water and the taco seasoning and mix together.
- Drain and rinse the canned beans and if using those, add beans to the pot, plus the corn, tomatoes, chilies, ranch dressing and stir everything together.
- Adjust the soup to your desired consistency with tomato juice. Simmer until hot and everything is heated through.
- Serve.
Notes
Figure about 150 Baht for the beef. For 4 servings, this is about $1.10 per serving.
Shortcuts: Taco Seasoning, Ranch Dressing Mix, Fried Corn.
Recipe and photo provided courtesy of good friend, Jerry Collins.
United States.
United States.
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