Spicy Green Salsa Beef Taco Bar
Elevated Dinners, Impressively Easy
- Sesame
- Milk
- Wheat
- Soy
Prep, sizzle, zap, serve: Four easy steps to our fastest, freshest weeknight meal yet. Thanks to a few clever time-savers from our chefs, you and yours will belly up to your own taco bar in just 15 minutes! You’ll brown ground beef with green pepper, scallions, and tangy green salsa, then warm refried beans and tortillas and set out all the fixins: pico de gallo, Monterey Jack cheese, guac, and blue corn tortilla chips. Everyone can build their own fresh, flavorful dinner in a flash!
Ingredients
16 ounce
Refried Black Beans
3 ounce
Blue Corn Tortilla Chips
(Contains: Sesame)
1 unit
Long Green Pepper
1 unit
Green Salsa
¼ cup
Monterey Jack Cheese
(Contains: Milk)
4 ounce
Pico de Gallo
6 unit
Flour Tortillas
(Contains: Wheat, Soy)
2 unit
Scallions
10 ounce
Ground Beef
8 tablespoon
Guacamole
Not included in your delivery
teaspoon (tsp)
Salt
1 teaspoon (tsp)
Cooking Oil
teaspoon (tsp)
Black Pepper
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
• Wash and dry produce. • Core, deseed, and cut green pepper into ½-inch strips. Trim and thinly slice scallions, separating whites from greens.
• Drizzle oil in a hot large, preferably nonstick, pan. Add beef*, green pepper, and scallion whites. Season with salt and pepper. Cook, breaking up meat into pieces, until veggies are tender and beef is cooked through, 4-6 minutes. • If there’s excess grease in your pan, carefully pour it out. Stir in salsa. Cook until slightly thickened, 1-2 minutes. TIP: While beef cooks, move on to the next step!
• Meanwhile, place refried beans in a large microwave-safe bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Microwave until warmed through, 2-3 minutes. Remove plastic wrap and stir. • Wrap tortillas in damp paper towels; microwave until warm and pliable, 30 seconds.
• Place guacamole in a small bowl. Season with salt and pepper. • Serve beef filling, tortillas, cheese, pico de gallo (draining first), scallion greens, chips, and guacamole family style with as much refried beans as you like (we used half) and let everyone build their own tacos!
Ground Beef is fully cooked when internal temperature reaches 160°.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Dec 2025- Flavor: Some found it tasty and zesty, while others felt it was bland; consider adding extra seasoning like sazón or adobo for more punch 🌶️.
- Ease of prep: Many praised how quick and easy this meal was to prepare, with assembly taking just 15 minutes.
- Suggestions: Try frying tortillas in olive oil for extra crispiness. Consider serving as nachos instead of tacos for a fun twist.
- Portions: This recipe makes generous servings; some found it could easily feed more than the stated number of people.
- Texture: The salsa-coated beef was a bit wet for some; serve with crunchy chips or drain excess liquid before assembling tacos.
Reviews from our home cooks
Why cut the peppers this way and not give them enough time to cook through before the beef is done? I cut mine into shorter slices and gave it a lil time to cook before the beef (because i foresaw this issue) and some pieces still needed a little more time. Overall a good combination of flavors with ease of cooking. The salsa-coated meat was a little goopy so it definitely needed the crunchy corn chips imo good choice there.
This was probably one of my favorites. So easy and fast and SO much flavor!!!
Great combination with the green pepper and salsa. Another favorite.
Spicy pepper - I omitted because it was too hot for our tastes.
Everything was good except the refried black beans. I'm a refried bean lover, but the black looked and tasted very unappetizing to say the least. The traditional style refried beans with pintos would have made this meal awesome.
There was way too much food. The beans and chips could have been left behind. This meal for 2 could have fed 4 people.
My kids love this just wish that you would get an option of flour or corn tortillas
I preferred to fry my tortillas in olive oil. Very good!
I wish you send more cilantro and Spanish onions for the Mexican dishes...
The hamburger was a little fatty. But still really tasty!
