Low Carb Taco Casserole – low on carbs but high on taste! SO good! Everyone cleaned their plate and asked for seconds!! Ground beef, taco seasoning, diced tomatoes and green chiles, cheddar cheese, eggs, sour cream, and heavy cream. It is like a quiche without the crust. Ready in 30 minutes. Can make ahead and refrigerate or freeze for later. #casserole #freezermeal #taco #mexican #lowcarb #keto #glutenfree
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The holidays are super hectic and the new year is a great time to slow down and hit the reset button on your diet. We are trying to incorporate more low carb recipes into our diet. This Low Carb Taco Casserole is perfect for taco night! SO much amazing flavor. Top the casserole with your favorite taco toppings – salsa, lettuce, tomatoes, and guacamole. You will never miss the tortillas!
How to Make Low Carb Taco Casserole with Ground Beef
This Low Carb Taco Casserole is super easy to make. Start with browning some ground beef or ground turkey. Drain the fat, add a packet of taco seasoning and a can of diced tomatoes and green chiles. Let that cook for a few minutes and transfer to a baking dish. Top the taco meat with some cheese. Next, whisk together some eggs, sour cream, and heavy cream. Pour the egg mixture over the taco meat and bake.
This taco casserole would be great with some fresh onion and bell peppers. I suggest adding the onion and peppers to the ground beef and let them soften while the beef cooks. I used shredded cheddar cheese. Feel free to swap it for any cheese you prefer – pepper jack, white cheddar, Monterey jack.
Can Taco Casserole be Frozen?
You can make this casserole in advance and refrigerate overnight or freeze for later. To bake after freezing, thaw completely in the refrigerator and bake as directed below. To reheat after freezing baked casserole, thaw completely and reheat in the microwave or covered in the oven at 350ºF for about 30 minutes.
What to Serve with Taco Casserole
This Low-Carb Taco Casserole is a weeknight favorite. It is super easy to make and tastes great! Top it with your favorite taco toppings. We like to top it with salsa, sour cream, guacamole, and lettuce. We serve this casserole with a simple salad, some black beans or some green beans. Here are a few of our favorite recipes that go great with this yummy Mexican Casserole:
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Low Carb Taco Casserole
Ingredients:
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 (1-oz) package taco seasoning
- ⅓ cup water
- 1 (10-oz) can diced tomatoes and green chiles, undrained
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 4 large eggs
- ½ cup milk or heavy cream
- ½ cup sour cream
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350ºF. Lightly spray an 8×8-inch or 11×7-inch pan with cooking spray.
- Cook ground beef in a skillet over medium heat until no longer pink. Drain fat. Add taco seasoning, water, and diced tomatoes and green chiles. Simmer for 5 minutes.
- Spread taco meat in the bottom of the prepared pan. Top with shredded cheese.
- Whisk together eggs, milk/heavy cream, and sour cream. Pour on top of the beef mixture.
- Bake, uncovered, for 30 to 35 minutes.
Notes:
Steph
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Added diced jalapenos
Diced jalapeños w/ seeds = YES!!!
Wow, this was awesome! I added regular diced tomatoes and diced hatch chilies (we are flush with them for the season in Cali right now) along with some bell peppers underneath the layer of cheese and the sauce. This is definitely going to be a return visitor in my kitchen. Love these low carb recipes that are delicious and not super complicated to make! Can’t wait to check out your other ones! 🙂
It’s difficult to find a low carb meal that my husband will eat but he loved the taco casserole! And it was easy to make! It was even better heated up the next day.
I’ve made this recipe several times – my husband and I love it – followed the recipe as written and it always turns out and taste wonderful
I made this last night and doubled the recipe for my family. It took about an HR and 15 min to set.
I baked this morning for dinner this evening. I had to taste a spoonful before I put in the fridge. Excellent flavors and easy to make.
I was so happy to see one of your recipes pop up on my Pinterest for a low-carb/keto option. Before I committed to keto I would probably make 1 or 2 of your recipes a week for my family. I LOVE YOUR FOOD!!! I didn’t even know you had keto recipes. I am excited to search your site but if you would like to let me know some of your most popular keto recipes, I would be so excited to hear!
Here is a link to all of our low-carb recipes: https://www.plainchicken.com/category/recipes/low-carb/
I love the taco casserole. The only thing I will change is not add the water. The can of tomatoes and green chili’s has more than enough liquid. I will definitely make it again!❤️
Made this tonight but the eggs weren’t set. What did I do wrong? I thought it tasted fairly good.
Maybe cook it longer
Can you substitute meat with veggie meat crumbles?
I know it’s keto but how eggy does it taste?
It doesn’t taste eggy at all. If you didn’t know they were in it, you wouldn’t know.
I didn’t use water in it, either. Instead of a taco packet, I used a teaspoon of smoked paprika, 1T cumin, 1T chili powder, 1 T onion powder, 1 T garlic powder, salt & pepper. The rotel with chilies was wet enough plus I used Mexican Crème, which is more liquid than sour cream. My husband and I really liked it. I actually just stirred it all together bc I made a mistake in assembling but it turned out perfect and delicious.
I am not a huge taco fan but let me tell you this recipe as well as the taco meatloaf is amazing. Thank you Stephanie. Definitely will make again.
You answered that using ground chicken would be ok – what about shredded chicken? I would like to double the recipe and serve for my ladies card club.
Sure – I think any meat would work fine.
Wondering if could use ground chicken instead?
sure
Have you worked out the macros for this?
I just made it but I like to track everything I eat. Smell wonderful
Can we omit the diced tomatoes and chiles and use salsa instead?
How do I know when it’s done?? I’ve never had a quiche before to know it’s consistency.
So DELICIOUS!!!
Only change I made was to drain the 10oz can of Rotel and measure the amount of liquid. I then added the same amount of Taco Sauce for the drained Rotel liquid. It gave it added punch! I guess you could do the same for the water with Taco Sauce. That came to me after I had made this wonderful dish. haha
What can you severe with this
Scroll up to the post for side dish suggestions.
Well, I’ve got it in the oven. Looks good but a little stumped on .13 cup. Is that like 2 tbsps! LOL Can’t wait to taste. Thanks.
Don’t know what you are talking about. Do you mean 1/3?
I made this and my husband loved it. It’s easy to make and tastes great.
Making this tonight for the fiancé! Super excited!
Enjoy!
SO good!! I will definitely make this again. Thank you for making a quick, easy and delicious Keto meal.
Trying this recipe tonight!! Once cooked, what is the consistency of the eggs? is it an eggy texture, if that makes sense?
It is like a quiche.
How many servings should this be? I would like to portion out this for my meal prep? Thank you!