This taco pie recipe is a quick and easy recipe you can make with canned crescent rolls for a Mexican themed meal everyone loves! It is a great way to use leftover taco meat! You’ll also find a tasty Sour Cream Lemon Pie for dessert!
This easy taco pie recipe can be even faster to make if you do a little prep work ahead of time. Keep leftover cooked ground meat in your freezer, so it’s handy when you need it.
The day before you plan to make this taco pie recipe or that morning, cut up your lettuce and tomatoes and grate your cheese (or even easier– buy grated cheese).
Then, when it is time for dinner, all you have to do it toss all of the ingredients into the pie pan. The baking time is so short that by the time you change your clothes, set the table and check the mail, it will be ready to eat.
Tips:
- From Jennifer: When I have leftover Taco meat, I put it in a container in the freezer. Over about a months time, I will have accrued enough frozen Taco meat to make a big pot of 30 minute Chili….Yum!! My husband loves this chili and doesn’t even realize he is eating leftovers…
- From DD: I bought some Sloppy Joes (cans) on sale. No one in my family cares much for Sloppy Joes, so I added it to spaghetti sauce. Surprisingly, it was quite good and there were no complaints. 🙂
- Pour your leftover chili over a bar of softened cream cheese for a quick and easy dip. Serve with chips or crackers. Use this quick snack idea when you’re watching a game on TV or use it as an after school or evening snack.
Meal Plan For This Taco Pie Recipe:
Easy Taco Pie
Tortilla Chips or Corn Chips
Sweetened Ice Tea
Sour Cream Lemon Pie
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I am a frozen leftover junkie– this sounds FANTASTIC!
I am also a frozen leftover junkie. In fact, I have a half gallon of whole milk that is about to go bad and I meant this morning to put it in the freezer so I can use it later for mashed potatoes or ice cream since we don’t care for it on cereal (bought to make mozerella but need one more ingredient I thought I had).
As far as taco meat, I freeze little bits of taco meat and then add to leftover pinto beans or black beans and make brown bag burritos with it for our lunches. I just microwave the frozen taco meat and add any leftover beans (sometime I have beans stashed in the freezer as well), place in flour tortillas with a little salsa mixed in, roll them up, wrap in plastic wrap and keep them all in a gallon bag in the freezer for taking to school/work. By the time lunch rolls around, the little burrito only needs a few seconds in the microwave to heat up and I have a feast!
But, I love the chili idea as well! I told my daughter the other day that eating little bits of leftovers from the freezer is “free food” because you probably would have just thrown away that little bit. I love it!
have never tried this as I don’t have little ones or even larger ones needing lunches for school. But here goes.
1 individual bag of taco chips
1 serving of taco meat mixture
some cheese to put on top
lettuce, olives whatever topping you like.
freeze the meat in a sandwich bag.
put toppings into a separate bag or container.
how to fix
zap meat until hot
open bag of chips and top with hot meat.
add toppings.
everything fits into the chip bag as a dish.
kids can eat it with a plastic fork so no worry about losing it at school.
A change for school brown bag lunches and a way to use up taco leftovers.
awesome idea ladies 😀
last nite i made soup (1 bag of frozen vegi’s, some onion, 1 box of beef broth and some water, add in some small shells and some hamburger)… i keep the pasta/rice separate bc my hubby is diabetic and can only have very little of this…
so for tonite, i am taking that leftover hamburger (that was separate) and adding it to my spag sauce adn put that over the noodles that was left over from the soup and the soup base? i will add some extra leftover vegi’s i have and give that to my hubby…
i like the idea of “recycling” (leftover) bits and pieces of things to make new meals… 😀
thanks for sharing 😀
I always save the leftover taco meat and use it for breakfast tacos in the morning (quick on the go meal) Tortilla stuffed with leftover taco meat, scrabbled egg, any kind of leftover rice hanging around the fridge, cheese and salsa. Heat in microwave 30 seconds. Wrap in foil and off he goes.
Hi,
I usually freeze this and use it as an additive in traditional red chilli, or sometimes if I’m short on time or hamberger put the left over in sauce for either spaghetti or lasagna. It’s a spicy little kick. I also do the same if I have left over sloppy joe meat.
Love your site!
Mary
I make taco bake. I pound of pasta cooked mixed with the taco meat and a jar of sauce topped with cheese in a casserole dish. My family loves it !
I like to keep zip locks in my freezer door so I can see what’s in them, keeping browned hamburger, taco meat, etc. in one, corn in another, broccoli in another and so on with the vegetables we use most. then we pull them for whatever dish we want, broccoli for stir fry, taco meat for chili/spag sauce, corn, carrots for pot pie, etc. it’s like all kinds of free meal additions (especially good for the end of the month, when the budget gets tight, we like to eat from the freezer/pantry.
For the sour cream lemon pie, when do you add in the half cup of lemon juice?
In with the cornstarch mixture. Sorry! I’ve fixed the typo.
We don’t often have leftover taco meat because somehow having 5 males in the house takes care of that. However, if we do, our favorite thing to do is to use it for lunch quesadillas the next day.
When I had four teenagers at home, I used to buy ground beef in bulk family packs for economy sake. When I got home, I would divide the meat up into meal sized packages. During barbecue season, one year, I decided to just make hamburger patties at the same time and freeze them in individual packages, too. My husband had made a patty stacker type system (like the ones seen on T.V.) to make all the patties the same. We used plastic margarine tub lids to cut into circles to put between the patties and to make it easier to break apart just as many patties as you wanted, while the burgers were still frozen when you retrieved them from the freezer. My tip here was that I mixed in ordinary packets of taco seasoning mix into the ground beef, before making the patties. (One packet or envelope for every 1 to 1&1/2 lbs. of ground beef). The burgers were delicious. We still smile about this, because one particular lady who constantly told us that she could “taste that we used cheaper food products” and usually declined our offerings at pot-lucks, ate one of our burgers and couldn’t believe that we had bought it, because it was so good.
Although my husband is in Heaven now, I still love to cook for me. Can’t wait to try the taco burgers. Why didn’t I think of that!? Also, what a good idea your husband came up with to separate the burgers. How many times I have struggled to get them apart. Thanks to you both for your ideas.