Taco evening simply were given an entire lot cuter! Our baked taco cups are made with home made BAKED exhausting shell taco boats — all due to a muffin tin!

This recipe may be very nostalgic to me. Did your grandma all the time order the taco salad at Perkins the place the taco shell was once a scrumptious fried tortilla bowl? Mine did. This shell is an ode to my grandma, however as an alternative of a fried tortilla bowl, they’re baked in an excessively secret means!

We used a muffin tin as the mildew to create little taco shell cups. You’ll see within the footage under for a fast snapshot of ways they’re made.

What’s in those Baked Taco Cups?

We use those taco-sized flour tortillas and position them at the backside of the muffin tin to shape little taco cups. 

For our taco meat protein possibility, we went with flooring hen because it’s lean and has a extra impartial taste than red meat. 

In spite of everything, we crowned our little cups with our favourite taco toppings like lettuce, pico de Gallo, shredded cheddar cheese, black olives, and non-fat Greek yogurt. However you’ll use no matter toppings you favor. 

Different Meat Choices

Those mini taco cups are delish with flooring hen, however be at liberty to sub it for any taco meat of your selection! Any of the next can be delish:

• Shredded Hen: burn up your leftover hen breast or thighs through shredding It!
• Floor Pork: use the beef in our flooring red meat tacos for those taco cups.
• Floor Turkey: for those who’re no longer keen on hen, turkey is the following highest factor!
• Carnitas: Our Fast Pot carnitas recipe is to die for and can be so scrumptious on this recipe.
• Lentils: Hoping to stay issues vegan? Check out our simple lentil taco meat!
• Candy Potato: roasted candy potatoes make for any other nice vegetarian “meat” thought. It’s simple, too!

Different Lettuce Choices

We opted for vintage chopped romaine hearts for those taco cups, however be at liberty to sub in any inexperienced of your selection that you’ve readily available, like:

• Crimson leaf lettuce
• Bib lettuce
• Butter lettuce
• Arugula
• Iceberg lettuce

Garage

Retailer any leftovers from those mini taco cups in an hermetic container within the refrigerator for 3-5 days. We propose making the taco boats recent ahead of serving them with any leftover fixings.

Different Serving Concepts for Baked Taco Cups

Stay issues conventional or be at liberty to jazz up your mini taco cups through including any of those topping choices:

Mini Taco Cups

Those baked taco cups made with home made baked exhausting shell taco after which full of flooring taco meat and toppings.

Prep:15 mins mins

Prepare dinner:15 mins mins

Fats 14

Carbs 17

Protein 18

Components

For the Hen Taco Meat

For the Remainder of the Tacos

• 1 cup chopped lettuce
• 1/2 cup pico de gallo/salsa
• 1/2 cup cheddar cheese
• 1/4 cup black olives
• 1/4 cup nonfat Greek yogurt

Directions 

For the Hen Taco Meat

• Position olive oil and minced garlic on a nonstick skillet and warmth to medium/top warmth. Then, upload flooring hen and brown. As soon as it’s virtually totally cooked, upload spices and maple syrup and end cooking.

For the Tortilla Boats

• Preheat the oven to 400ºF.

• Start through striking tortillas within the microwave for roughly 5-10 seconds to melt just a little.

• Then, position at the bottom of a muffin tin in order that they invent a boat-like form. The larger the muffin tin you utilize, the extra you’ll cook dinner immediately.

• THOROUGHLY spray each and every taco shell with nonstick cooking spray on each side after which season with sea salt. Choice to make use of a squeeze of lime.

• Position within the oven and bake for round 8 mins, or till golden brown.

For the Remainder of the Tacos

• Compile tacos through striking lettuce at the backside of a taco shell, adopted through about 1/4 cup of meat. Then, most sensible with pico, cheese, black olives, and Greek yogurt.

Guidelines & Notes

• We discovered that white flour tortillas cook dinner higher and transform crunchier than corn tortillas.
• Make sure to give the tortillas a excellent spray with cooking spray and allow them to cook dinner lengthy sufficient.
• We additionally discovered it’s highest to devour the shells ASAP as they may get stale for those who allow them to sit down out.
• Choice to make use of any more or less meat that you simply want.

Diet details

Energy: 252kcal Carbohydrates: 17g Protein: 18g Fats: 14g Fiber: 2g Sugar: 3g