Beef Taquitos

These beef taquitos are great as an appetizer or dinner. They’re rolled in flour tortilla, filled with flavorful beef and cheddar jack cheese and baked until hot and crispy.

Course Appetizer

Cuisine Mexican & Southwestern

Keyword ground beef

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 50

Total Time 1 10

Servings

Calories 603kcal

Author Elizabeth Rodriguez

Ingredients

Seasoning Mix

½ tablespoon Chili Powder
1 teaspoon Kosher Salt or to taste
1 teaspoon Garlic Powder
½ teaspoon Onion Powder
½ teaspoon Cumin
¼ teaspoon Black Pepper or to taste

Beef Filling and Taquitos

1 tablespoon Canola Oil
1 pound Ground Sirloin use the leanest ground beef you can find
1 8 ounce Can Tomato Sauce
2 tablespoons Water
20 Small Flour Tortillas
1½ cups Shredded Cheddar Jack Cheese

Instructions

Make the seasoning mix

Add the chili powder, salt, garlic powder, onion powder, cumin and black pepper to a small bowl, stir to combine.

Cook the beef filling

Heat the canola oil in a large skillet over medium high heat.
When the oil is hot, add the ground beef and sprinkle the top with the prepared seasoning mix.
Start to stir and fold the ground beef to incorporate the seasoning mix.
Cook the beef until browned. This will take approximately 4-5 minutes. Stir and break up any large pieces of meat with a wooden spoon or spatula.
Add the tomato sauce and water to the skillet.
Stir the beef and sauce well. Lower the heat to medium-low and cover the skillet. Cook the ground beef for 20 minutes until cooked through, stirring occasionally.
Let most of the liquid to cook out. The meat cannot be too wet to make the taquitos. If you have too much liquid, uncover the skillet. It will dry out quickly.
Take the skillet off the heat and let it cool. Give the ground beef a stir every once in a while to let the steam escape. It will cool quicker.

Build the taquitos

Place a tortilla wrap on a flat surface. Add 1 heaping tablespoon of the ground beef a little off center towards the side closest to you. Arrange the beef filling in a line so that it’s not mounded.
Add a generous pinch of the cheddar jack cheese over the ground beef.
Roll the tortilla tightly, away from you and place it seam side down on a baking sheet that’s lined with parchment paper.
Some liquid may come out of the taquito during the rolling process, keep a paper towel handy. Repeat until all of the ground beef filling is used up.
Bake the taquitos for about 20-25 minutes until the tortillas are toasty on the outside. Check them after 15 minutes and gauge from there.

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