An easy, go-to family favorite! Skillet Baked Beef Nachos!
If you don’t have a fancy holiday menu planned, or if fancy just isn’t your thing and EASY is, these Skillet Baked Beef Nachos are for YOU! Both mine and Brett’s families kept Christmas Eve dinners really casual, so I’m thinking this might just be perfect for that. Or New Year’s Eve. Or any meal really. We actually love to make oven-baked nachos on Sundays, and this skillet version is even easier than those.
One pan, one mess. Beefy, cheesy, good stuff.
Brown the beef in a skillet, add some black beans, our fav Horizon Organic cheese, chips, a little more cheese. Then toast it all in the oven until it’s all meted and bubbling. Then just top with all of your favorites- lettuce, salsa, avocado, sour cream. Again, we prefer Horizon Organic when it comes to the dairy goods. Their sour cream is so thick and creamy.
If we make nachos, we always make my mama’s salsa to go with them. It’s a family tradition I grew up with. Any time my family gets together, holidays or not, we make a big batch of my her {ridiculously easy} salsa and sit around the table, or hover around the counter, eating chips and salsa and talking. As soon as someone pulls it out of the fridge and heats it up (it’s always best warm) we all just gather around it, eating and chatting.
And believe it or not it starts with a large can of tomato juice and flavored with just a handful of seasonings, simmered, and ready to go! It’s good on nachos, enchiladas, tasty with eggs or quesadillas. Just about any Mexican sort of dish.
Who wants some? ? ?
Skillet Baked Beef Nachos
Yield 4-6
Ingredients
1 lb lean organic ground beef, thawed
1 packet of taco seasoning
1 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp garlic
dash of e salt and pepper
1 (14 oz) can black beans, drained
1 1/2 cups Horizon Organic Mexican Shredded Cheese
Tortilla chips (enough to cover the ground beef/black bean mixture in skillet)
Toppings: shredded lettuce, Horizon Organic sour cream, green onions, avocado, salsa.
Instructions
Preheat oven to 375.
Heat a large skillet over medium heat. Add ground beef and cook until browned and cooked through. Drain any extra liquid and return to pan. Stir in the black beans. Add taco seasoning, cumin, garlic and salt and pepper and stir to combine.
Remove skillet from heat. Cover with a half cup of cheese, then cover with tortilla chips. Top the tortilla chips with remaining cheese (or more or less).
Place in the oven and bake for 10-12 minutes or until everything is cheese is melted and chips are slightly toasted. Top with desired toppings. Scoop onto plated and serve! Salsa recipe is below!
Mama's Restaurant Style Salsa
Ingredients
1 (48 oz) can tomato juice
1 1/2 tsp cumin
1 tsp crushed red pepper
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
1 tsp onion salt (flakes work too)
1 tsp garlic
Instructions
Pour tomato juice into a large saucepan and heat to medium. Add seasonings, whisk well, and bring to a simmer. Let simmer for 10 minutes. The longer it simmers the thicker it gets (and spicier) You can use more or less crushed red pepper to make it more/less spicy.
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Horizon. The opinions and text are all mine.
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