Double Stuffed Taco Potatoes are loaded with ground beef taco filling, onion, sour cream, and cheese. A sprinkling of chopped green onions and salsa finishes them off.
Course Main Course
Cuisine Tex-Mex
Keyword ground beef, stuffed potatoes
Prep Time 15 minutesminutes
Cook Time 1 hourhour25 minutesminutes
Total Time 1 hourhour40 minutesminutes
Servings 4servings
Author Christin Mahrlig
Ingredients
4large baking potatoes
1poundlean ground beef
1small onion,chopped
1packet taco seasoning
1/4cupwater
1/2cupsour cream,plus extra for serving
1/4cupmilk
1cupshredded cheddar cheese
2green onions,sliced
1/2cupsalsa
Instructions
Preheat oven to 475 degrees. Scrub potatoes and prick several times with a fork. Bake for 60 to 75 minutes, until soft.
Meanwhile, cook ground beef and onion in a nonstick pan until beef is cooked through. Break it into small pieces with a wooden spoon as it cooks.
Add taco seasoning and 1/4 cup water. Cook for 1 minute. Remove from heat.
Once potatoes are baked, let cool 10-15 minutes and then remove a sliver of skin from the top of each potato. Scoop potato pulp out and place in a large bowl. Add sour cream and milk and mash until smooth. Stir in about 3/4 of taco mixture. If you feel like there will be too much meat mixed in if you add the remaining 1/4, save it to make a quick quesadilla or tortilla pizza for lunch. Or go ahead and mix it in. Fold in 3/4 cup of cheddar cheese.
Taste for seasoning. Taco seasoning tends to be salty so you may not need to add much, if any salt.
Stuff the potato mixture back into the skins. Place in a baking dish. Sprinkle remaining cheese on top and bake at 350 for 20 to 25 minutes.
To serve top with green onions, salsa, and sour cream.
Notes
To make this dish spicy, use a packet of "Hot" taco seasoning and spicy salsa. You can also serve them with Cholulu hot sauce.