Oven Baked Tacos are a quick and easy dinner. Tacos in a crisp shell that doesn’t fall apart when you bite into it.
We don’t believe in limited taco night to only Tuesdays at our house. We love tacos any night of the week. Some of our other favorite taco recipes are Shredded Beef Tacos made with slow cooker beef, Grilled Chicken tacos can be done on the grill or the stove top and these Baja Fish Tacos were inspired by a trip to San Diego.
Easy Dinner Idea
This week’s quick and easy dinner is a quick one! One of my go to meals when the kids were young was tacos. I also remember it being one of my mom’s go to meals. It doesn’t get much easier than browning up some meat, adding in a packet of seasoning and wrapping it in a tortilla!
I am a crispy taco shell girl. You know, the kind you bake in the oven first. The only problem though is the entire shell cracks and falls apart after your first bite. I usually ended up making a little taco salad out of it and eating it with a fork.
Today’s recipe for oven baked tacos gives you the same quick and easy dinner without the mess. I’ve got an amazing technique for baking the taco shells so that they don’t fall apart when you eat your taco! The meat, shell and cheese are all baked together.
How to Make Tacos in the Oven
- Place two pieces of rolled up foil in the bottom of the pan to allow for drainage and keep the tacos from sitting in any grease or liquid that may run off from the tacos.. If your meat isn’t well drained, you may get some liquid draining out of the shells and if the taco shells are sitting flat on the pan they can get soggy.
- Place your taco shells onto the rolled up foil.
- Brown meat and add in dried onion, taco seasoning, tomato sauce and green chilies. Allow to simmer until meat mixture thickens. up.
- Fill the shells with your meat mixture. I used about 1 1/5 lbs. of meat and got about 10 -12 tacos from it.
- Then top them off with cheese. I used a combination of Monterey Jack and Cheddar Cheese.
- Bake in a 400 degrees F oven for about 10-12 minutes or until the shells are lightly browned and warmed through.
- Add favorite taco toppings. At our house we love lettuce and tomatoes.
Dress them up however you like and then enjoy! A quick and easy dinner!!
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Oven Baked Tacos Recipe
Oven Baked Tacos
Ingredients
- 1.5 ground beef
- 2 tsp dried onion
- 1 pkg. . taco seasoning mix
- 1 8 oz. can tomato sauce
- 1 4.5 oz. can mild green chilies
- 1 cup cheddar cheese
- 1 cup monterey jack cheese
- 12 crispy taco shells
- lettuce tomato and whatever condiments you like
Instructions
- Brown meat with minced onion until meat is cooked through. Drain off any liquid/fat.
- Add in taco seasoning and tomato sauce and simmer until liquid is absorbed.
- Place taco shells into baking dish with rolled up foil on the bottom to keep shells from touching the bottom of the pan.
- Fill shells with meat mixture and top with cheese.
- Bake at 400 degrees for 10-12 minutes or until cheese melts and the shells are heated through.
- Remove from oven and top with desired condiments.
Nutrition
Originally shared February 21, 2013
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Made these last night for our Taco Tuesday and AWESOME! Only recipe for me from now on. Did not break wide open – we prefer the crunchy corn tortillas but always used flour because the first bite why broke all apart. You must try these…
Debi, So glad you loved them – they definitely are a game changer when it comes to crispy tacos!
Oh my goodness, these were fabulous. The melted cheese, so good. I will never make tacos any other way. I used organic blue corn taco shells with mine. Can’t wait to share this taco trick with my grown children. Thank you! Your recipes never disappoint.
I just searched for “how to keep baked tacos from getting soggy” and yours was the first article to pop up. Brilliant idea to put the foil in the bottom of the pan! My recipe for filling is very similar to yours, so I know my family will enjoy this tonight. Thank you!
had this for dinner tonight. easy and good! even my husband who doesn’t like crunchy shells liked them. and my three little picky boys ate them as well. hooray! thanks for the baking tip!
I made these last night, too! My family and I loved them- especially the fact that the taco shells didn’t fall apart. Thanks!
So glad everyone liked them. I love not having my taco shell crumble at first bite!
I wanted to let you know that I made these last night and I used the tin foil. Brilliant! These were so good and such a big hit with everyone. This is the only way I am going to make Tacos again! Thanks for sharing such a great recipe!
Thanks – it has revolutionized my taco making too – no more crumbling shells!!
I like the idea of putting the rolled up foil. I really like beans so I prefer adding some to my tacos. It tastes awesome.
I make these, but the recipe I use has refried beans in it. We love them and the mixture is great for nachos too. 🙂
I’ve seen the recipe with refried beans but I’m not a fan so I added in the green chilies instead. I bet it would be great on nachos!
Love this…..going to give a try !!!
Awesome tip on the foil!! So very clever!!!
Brilliant! I am SO doing this!
I sometimes bake our tacos too but I’ve never tried the foil tip. I’ll remember that next time. 😉
I love the foil tip! That is a great idea. We love quick and easy dinners like this and I am glad you enjoyed them.