Ground Beef & Potato Taco Meat Recipe Is a Budget High-Protein Dinner (20 Minutes, 7 Ingredients) Budget Recipes High Protein Recipes Beef Dinner Mexican Recipes Tex-Mex Recipes Low Sodium Recipes Low Sugar Recipes

Take your tacos up a (homemade) notch by making this easy beef and potatoes taco meat recipe. Growing up, there was a taco restaurant that had potatoes in their taco meat, and I absolutely loved them. Adding potatoes to taco meat not only ups nutrition (check out the health benefits of potatoes), but also stretches the meat to make more tacos. This budget recipe is a keeper!

To make this Mexican recipe for taco night, you will need only seven simple ingredients. Here is your short shopping list for this Tex-Mex dinner: ground beef (you could use ground turkey instead), potatoes, cooking oil, onion, fresh garlic, ground cumin and dried oregano.

Variation: You can just as easily add a package of taco seasoning mix if you're in a rush after cooking the potato and browning the ground beef. If using taco seasoning, add the recommended amount of water on the package.

Serve this tasty high-protein taco meat recipe in crispy taco shells or flour tortillas with your favorite taco toppings. You could also use the seasoned ground beef and potatoes for taco salads, burritos, chimichangas, flautas or on nachos. Yum!

Cuisine: Mexican / Tex-Mex
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
Servings: 4

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon cooking oil
• 1 large potato, diced
• 1 pound ground beef
• 1 onion, chopped
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 2 teaspoons ground cumin
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano

Here's how to make it:

1. Heat the oil in a skillet. Add the potatoes, season with salt and pepper, and cook, covered, about 10 minutes. Uncover and continue to cook until tender and browned. Remove from pan.
2. Add the ground beef, onion, garlic, cumin, oregano, salt and pepper, to taste. Cook until meat is browned and cooked through.
3. Stir in the potatoes and warm through. Serve as desired. Store any leftover meat in an airtight container in the fridge. Reheat in the microwave.

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