Grammy's Kitchen · Ground Beef Tacos · Baked Beef Tacos
One of 137 ground beef tacos recipes we measured
from www.budgetbytes.com
56 cooks on www.budgetbytes.com rate it 4.9★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 137.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 8% | 0% |
| fat | 2% | 1% |
| aromatics | 20% | 8% |
| salt | 0% | 0% |
| vegetables and beans | 0% | 17% |
| collagen idx | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| marbling idx | 0.6 | 0.6 |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 8 g | 1 Tbsp chili powder ($0.30) |
| 2 g | 1 tsp smoked paprika ($0.10) |
| 2 g | 1 tsp ground cumin ($0.10) |
| 1 g | 1/2 tsp dried oregano ($0.05) |
| 1 g | 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper ($0.03) |
| 3 g | 1/2 tsp salt ($0.02) |
| black pepper (freshly cracked, $0.03) | |
| 14 g | 1 Tbsp cooking oil ($0.04) |
| 150 g | 1 yellow onion ($0.37) |
| 6 g | 2 garlic cloves ($0.16) |
| 227 g | 1/2 lb. lean ground beef (93% lean or higher, $3.90*) |
| 425 g | 15 oz. can black beans ($0.79) |
| 432 g | 1 box hard taco shells (10 shells, $1.00**) |
| 113 g | 1 cup shredded cheddar (4oz., $1.20) |
| 1 tomato ($0.49) | |
| 15 g | 1 jalapeño ($0.06) |
| 1 g | 1 handful fresh cilantro ($0.13) |
| 58 g | 1/4 cup sour cream ($0.11) |
Method: 6 steps, published by www.budgetbytes.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Hi Jill & Beth, I haven't tried these yet but they sound delicious... I just spotted the recipe & like to read the comments. One thing I learned from my mother is to drain ground meat [turkey, beef, etc.] in a strainer/colander to get all the fat &” — a cook, 4★
“Another winner from Budget Bytes! Adjusted some of the quantities to what I had on hand, but otherwise made as written. I’m going to be having these as lunch the rest of the week, so I baked tacos just for dinner and refrigerated the rest of it to be added to ” — a cook, 5★