Welcoming the weekend with Taco potatoe pie

Feb 09 2008

Posted by Cuzzy as Halifax, Katie, daily news, dinners, recipes

The weekend is here again and time is flying in February so far. Hope everyone is fighing the winter blahs and ready for a great weekend ahead.

To celebrate another wonderful Friday night I decided to find a recipe to make last night. Katie is always pretty drained after a long week of work and even more so when it is in Saint John.

The recipe of choice was for a dish I found in a very unexpected place.

It was for a taco potatoe pie, I will get to the recipe in a second but just wanted to tell you where I got it.

Last weekend on Super Bowl Sunday as I was flipping channels I stopped on our local Eastlink channel and there was a cooking show on. You may know it, it is called Welcome to My Kitchen.

Anyways I have seen it before and it always has some very easy and good looking recipes to try. The host was doing the taco pie and it looked great. I mentaly stored it away for a later date and yesterday was the day I decided to try it out.

Here is the recipe.

TACO POTATO PIE

2 c. cold mashed potatoes, prepared with milk & butter
1 envelope taco seasoning mixed, divided
1 lb. ground beef
½ c. chopped onion
1 can (16 oz.) refried beans
½ c. barbecue sauce
¼ c. water
1 c. shredded lettuce
1 medium tomato, diced
1 c. grated cheddar cheese
Sour cream

Combine potatoes and 2 tbsp. taco seasoning. Press into greased 9” deep dish pie plate, set aside.
In skillet, cook beef and onion over medium heat until meat is no longer pink; drain. Stir in beans, bbq sauce, water and remaining taco seasoning. Cook & stir until hot and bubbly. Spoon into potato crust. Bake at 350 for 30 – 35 min. until potatoes are hot. Top with lettuce, tomato and cheese and pass the sour cream.

I stuck pretty close to this recipe and added in some green peppers into the mixture. It turned out very well. Here are the photos.

I don’t know if we were really hungry or if it was just that good but Katie and I had two helpings each and loved every bite. We will be making this easy dish again very soon. I hope you give it a try.

We were even saying it would be good as a dip with some taco chips. So many options with this one.

That cooking show has many solid recipes to try out so I think I will be going back to it again soon.

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