Meals Made Ahead: Taco Tartlets

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Taco Tartlets

Taco Tartlets:
1 pound ground beef (uncooked)
2 Tablespoons taco seasoning mix
2 Tablespoons ice water
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
Tortilla Chip filling:
1 cup sour cream
2 Tablespoons taco sauce
2 ounces chopped black olives
3/4 cup coarsely crushed tortilla chips

Mix beef, seasoning and ice water. Press into bottom and sides of mini-muffin pan. Prepare Tortilla Chip filling in a different bowl. Place a spoonful of filling into each shell, mounding slightly. Sprinkle cheddar cheese over tops. Bake 7-8 minutes. Remove tartlets from pan with tip of knife. Serve immediately or freeze. (No directions how to reheat.)

Last December, Jodi and I got together to make appetizers we could have on hand in the freezer for the Holiday season. The original recipe gave no directions for reheating so I put the frozen tartlets on a cookie sheet and reheated them in the oven until hot. It worked fine. My family loved them! Note: They were a bit time consuming and fussy to make.

2 comments:

TristyDecember 30, 2009 at 3:08 PM
These were so good that they never made it into my freezer!
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LisaJanuary 19, 2010 at 8:25 AM
FYI- we got approximately 24-30 tartlets out of each recipe, depending on the size of the mini muffin pan. Deeper works better!
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We are a group of moms who get together about once a month or so to cook Meals Made Ahead.

Meals Made Ahead are great because it's nice to always have something in the freezer for those nights that are busy, those nights when you can't think of anything to make, those nights when you have nothing to cook with because you didn't feel like dragging two screaming kids through the grocery store, those nights when you just don't feel like cooking.

Sure, we could do this on our own. But it's much more fun to cook with friends (and share the clean up!)

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