Taco Soup Recipe

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This is my tried-and-true Taco Soup recipe. I’ve been making it for years, and I always manage to freeze some for future meals.

Cooking my recipe for taco soup in my crockpot.

You can cook this taco soup recipe in a large skillet. Alternatively, you can brown the ground beef or turkey and then add all the ingredients to a crockpot to simmer.

Initially, I used a recipe that I found online. However, as time passed, I gradually added and subtracted ingredients to suit my own taste.

Here’s the taco soup recipe I ended up with:

Taco Soup Recipe Ingredients:

  • 5-6 cans of beans of your choice (or however many you desire)
  • 1 can whole kernel corn
  • 1 can of mild Rotel
  • 1 packet Ranch dressing mix
  • 1 packet of Taco seasoning
  • 1-2 pounds ground beef or ground turkey (I usually use lean ground turkey)

Brown the ground beef or turkey. I soak up the grease left after browning with paper towels.

Select the cans of beans you want to include and add them to the ground beef or turkey. As well as the whole kernel corn.

The beauty of this recipe for taco soup is that you don’t have to drain the cans first. Just pour the contents of the cans in and then stir as it starts to simmer.

Add the can of Rotel, the dry Ranch dressing mix, and the Taco seasoning. Dry onion soup mix would likely be a good substitute in this recipe, but I haven’t tried it.

Bowl of taco soup with Fritos and cheese.

Shredded Cheese Anyone?

Once you’ve spooned taco soup into your bowl to eat, you can add shredded cheese if desired.

Sometimes I cook cornbread to have with the taco soup. (Ivy loves cornbread!) And sometimes I have tortilla chips on the side, or Fritos in the bowl.

When everything is cooled down, or after I’ve refrigerated the leftover Taco Soup overnight, I freeze it. I use sandwich-size baggies and pour individual servings into them. Then I freeze the Taco Soup for another day.

When I’m hungry for Taco Soup, I take an individual sandwich bag out of the freezer and thaw it in the refrigerator. And that’s a meal I only have to heat up.

This recipe for taco soup is a good, filling, and fast meal. It’s cheap too, and there’s more than enough to serve two or three people.

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  3. I put my browned ground beef in a colander and rinse it with warm water to get rid of the grease. I have a similar recipe but do add a can or two of diced tomatoes (one is Rotel) and only three cans of beans. Very good!

  4. perfect for this coldish cloudy day! thanks!

  5. Look at you, posting a recipe! 🙂 This looks great, I might use ground turkey to lighten it up a bit, and I make my own ranch dressing mix and taco seasoning to control the sodium. But I already added the rest of the items to my shopping list!

  6. Thank you for posting your recipe! I can't eat anything too spicy either but this sounds very flavorful and easy on the stomach. I haven't been to Trader Joe's in a while but they have these wonderful organic tortilla chips called longboards . I use them in tomato soup and let them get really soggy ( I know that sounds terrible) . They end up tasting like some sort of firm noodle with a south of the border taste. They make the soup quite filling.
    There is no added water or stock? I'm a BAD cook , very bad, so I need to ask. Thanks lots Brenda.

  7. I do love taco soup and since becoming vegan I am going to try making it with vegan crumbles. I am sure it will taste just fine.

  9. This recipe sounds simple and tasty. We eat a lot of beans, usually with rice but sometimes with corn cakes made in a frying pan. Right now I am looking at different recipes for white chili made with chicken and white beans. That's what I plan to fix in the Crockpot today. We are having a cold spell here in central KY.

  10. That sounds really good, Brenda. It is a recipe that is different from any I have seen for taco soup. I don't do real spicy, either. Hubby can't eat this sort of thing anymore but he would have LOVED this! xo Diana

  11. I love soup for dinner and will be adding this recipe to my menu. Happy Weekend to you, XOXO

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