Easy and Delicious Taco Beef Pie Recipe

Spicy Hamburger Topped with Grated Cheese and a Biscuit Crust

Oct 8, 2008 Melody Rhodes

Taco beef pie is a mouth-watering combination of flavors: cheese, ground beef, and delicious taco seasoning.

If you want something a little different for dinner, taco beef pie offers plenty of taste and is an easy-to-make lunch or dinner dish.

Taco beef pie is a great item to take to potlucks, picnics or parties. It's popular with teens and is sure to garner compliments wherever it's served.

Once you've made it a time or two, this taco beef pie recipe can easily be prepared from memory.

Assemble your taco beef pie in an ungreased 10" round glass pie plate because this recipe makes a large meat pie, suitable for hearty appetites.

Taco Beef Pie Recipe

• 1 lb. ground beef
• 2 cups grated cheddar cheese
• 1 pkg. taco seasoning
• 1 cup chopped onion
• 1 cup chopped green pepper
• 2 cups grated cheddar cheese
• Biscuit dough

Step I

1. Fry hamburger until well done. Drain off grease.
2. Add onions and continue cooking until they are browned
3. Add green pepper
4. Add taco seasoning, following directions on package
5. Simmer so flavors blend
6. Place cooked hamburger into the bottom of your glass pie plate and set aside

Step II

• Grate cheddar cheese and sprinkle it over the hamburger

Step III

Prepare your Biscuit Crust

• 2 cups of flour
• 4 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 4 tbsp. of soft butter
• 1 cup milk

1. Stir the flour, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl. Cut in the butter. Add the milk and stir lightly, adjusting the amount of milk you use, so that you have a light, moist biscuit dough.
2. Drop the dough by tablespoons over the cheese and hamburger mixture and spread out with a wooden spoon until the top of your pie is covered. Dot with butter.

Place your taco beef pie into a preheated oven and bake at 325 degrees, 20-30 minutes, until biscuit crust is golden brown. Insert a knife in the crust to test for doneness. Remove taco beef pie from oven and slice into wedges.

Taco Beef Pie: Time-Saving Tips

• Hamburger can be cooked ahead of time and frozen so that it is ready to go
• Onions and green peppers can be chopped and then frozen
• Cheese can be grated and stored in the freezer

If desired, you can prepare this recipe for taco beef pie ahead of time. Cook taco pie and allow to cool; slice into portions, then cover with plastic or store in containers and freeze. Remove individual slices and thaw completely, then warm in the microwave.

Taco beef pie is bursting with flavor and is sure to become a family favorite. It's one of those dinner dishes you'll make again and again.

Other Favorite Recipes:

• Homemade Sesame Crackers
• Hearty Homemade Bread
• Easy Dumpling Recipe

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