Taco Soup

This Taco Soup recipe is a very popular choice for an easy, family friendly dinner recipe.

If you’re looking for an easy recipe to make for a lot of people, consider this one. It’s the perfect sort of recipe to make for a big Super Bowl party or a large gathering of friends. Everyone loves a good comfort food dish, and that’s what this is! Although this taco soup recipe is titled a “soup,” it’s not really a soupy soup. It’s more like a thick chili that is adorned with some great toppings.

🛒 Ingredients Needed:

• lean ground beef
• lean ground turkey
• onion
• canned kidney and pinto beans
• canned sweet white corn
• canned Mexican-style stewed tomatoes
• canned diced tomatoes
• canned tomatoes with chiles
• canned diced green chiles
• taco seasoning mix
• Ranch salad dressing mix
• Fritos and desired toppings

✏️ How to make Taco Soup:

*The complete, printable recipe is in the recipe card at the end of this post.

1. Brown the beef and turkey with the onions in a large skillet. Drain fat, then transfer cooked meat and onions to a large slow cooker (or stockpot). Add beans, corn, tomatoes, chiles, olives and seasonings; cook in slow cooker on low for 6 to 8 hours (or simmer on low heat for about 1 hour if using a pot on the stove).
2. To serve: sprinkle a few corn chips in the bottom of a bowl and ladle soup over them. Top with desired garnishes.

➡️ Tips and Substitutions:

• Add some ground sweet Italian sausage into the mix, if you’d like!
• You can change up the beans– using white beans or chili beans.
• It’s okay to leave out the corn. Honestly, I wouldn’t mess with the rest of the ingredients though. The combination of everything just works in this recipe!
• Fixings to serve with the soup (like corn chips) are not included in the nutritional information. If you are watching your weight, make this recipe with ALL 99% lean ground turkey.

✔️ What are the best garnishes for taco soup?

• shredded cheese
• sour cream
• jalapeños or pickled jalapeños
• chunks of avocado or tomato
• chopped bell pepper
• guacamole
• chopped lettuce
• sliced black olives
• chopped onion

Here are a few more soup recipes you might enjoy:

• Roasted Chicken Noodle Soup
• Loaded Potato Soup
• Easy French Onion Soup
• Hamburger Soup
• Creamy Mexican Turkey Soup
• Lasagna Soup
• Greek Orzo and Chicken Soup

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Taco Soup

By RecipeGirl.com (adapted from Paula Deen)

This Taco Soup recipe is a very popular choice for an easy and family friendly dinner recipe.

Prep: 25 minutes mins

Cook: 6 hours hrs

Total: 6 hours hrs 25 minutes mins

Servings: 16 servings

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Ingredients

• ▢ 16 ounces lean ground beef
• ▢ 16 ounces lean ground turkey (use ALL ground turkey- no beef, if you're counting WW Points)
• ▢ 2 large onions, diced
• ▢ Two 15.5-ounce cans pinto beans, drained & rinsed
• ▢ One 15.5-ounce can kidney beans, drained & rinsed
• ▢ One 15.25-ounce can sweet white corn, drained
• ▢ One 14.5-ounce can Mexican-style stewed tomatoes
• ▢ One 14.5-ounce can diced tomatoes
• ▢ One 14.5-ounce can tomatoes with chiles
• ▢ One 4.6-ounce can mild, diced green chiles
• ▢ One 1.25-ounce package taco seasoning mix
• ▢ One 1-ounce package Ranch salad dressing mix
• ▢ Fritos, sour cream, grated cheese, pickled jalapenos etc. (as desired, for serving)

Instructions 

• Brown the beef and turkey with the onions in a large skillet. Drain fat, then transfer cooked meat and onions to a large slow cooker (or stockpot). Add beans, corn, tomatoes, chiles, olives and seasonings; cook in slow cooker on low for 6 to 8 hours (or simmer on low heat for about 1 hour if using a pot on the stove).
• To serve: sprinkle a few corn chips in the bottom of a bowl and ladle soup over them. Top with desired garnishes.

Notes

• If you are watching your weight, use all lean ground turkey instead of beef and turkey.
• Fixings to serve with the soup (like corn chips) are not included in the nutritional information.
• This really isn’t technically a “soup.” It’s more like a thick chili-sort of dish and it’s fabulous over the corn chips- don’t leave those out!
• Add sliced, black olives if you’d like (optional).
• Consider other garnishes too: guacamole, chopped onions, lettuce, tomatoes, etc.

Nutrition

Serving: 1serving, Calories: 241kcal, Carbohydrates: 26g, Protein: 15g, Fat: 8g, Saturated Fat: 2g, Cholesterol: 41mg, Sodium: 663mg, Potassium: 614mg, Fiber: 6g, Sugar: 6g, Vitamin A: 345IU, Vitamin C: 14.3mg, Calcium: 77mg, Iron: 3.3mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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