Taco Salad Bites

(from castro15’s recipe box)

Categories: Appetizers

Ingredients

  • Nonstick cooking spray, for spraying the wire rack
  • 1 pound ground beef (90/10)
  • 2 tablespoons taco seasoning
  • Kosher salt
  • 16 miniature cup-shaped corn tortilla chips
  • 4 ounces pepper jack cheese, cut into 16 cubes
  • 3 tablespoons sour cream
  • 1 cup thinly sliced romaine lettuce
  • 1 small plum tomato, diced
  • Hot sauce, for serving

Directions

  1. Position an oven rack in the top third of the oven and preheat to 425 degrees F. Set a wire rack over a baking sheet and spray generously with cooking spray.
  2. Use your hands to mix the ground beef, taco seasoning and 1/2 teaspoon salt in a medium bowl until just combined. Drop heaping tablespoons of the meat mixture onto the rack (about 16 total), then use your hands to roll the portioned meat into balls. Press a tortilla chip into the top of each meatball, making sure that the meat goes mostly up the sides of the chip (be careful not to break the chips). Put 1 cheese cube in the middle of each chip.

  3. Bake, rotating the baking sheet once halfway, until the meat is just cooked through and the cheese is melted, about 8 minutes. Transfer the bites to a large platter, top with a dollop of sour cream and sprinkle with the lettuce and tomato. Serve with hot sauce.

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