Let’s put a ring on Taco Tuesday. I cannot take credit for this beauty at all. Recipes are abundant online and on Pinterest for this Taco Ring. It’s made with Pillsbury Crescent Rolls, taco filling and cheese. Super simple for the most part once you get the hang of making the ring itself. My kidlets love love love this taco ring. If only everything I made would bring such joy.
I’ve taken inspiration from Pillsbury and a whole host of other webbies as well as my mother-in-law. Crescent rolls, taco meat, cheese…pretty hard to mess up. Our own spin is that we add some rotel tomatoes, the extra acidity and heat flavor the meat even more but it’s hardly necessary.
Here’s what you’ll need:
Ingredients:
2 cans of Pillsbury Crescent rolls (8 each per can)
1 lb ground beef (or turkey, pork, chicken..whatever filling you want)
1 packet of taco seasoning
1 cup shredded cheddar or Mexican cheese blend
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup salsa or rotel tomatoes (you can omit and use another 1/4 cup water)
Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.
1. Prepare the beef or the filling you are using according to the taco seasoning
package directions. Allow to sauce to thicken and coat the meat. Add the rotel tomatoes
or salsa if using and set the mixture aside. Here’s where some recipes say to go ahead and add the cheese. Some say add the mixture to the ring then top with cheese. You do you.
2. Unroll both cans of dough and separate into 16 triangles. On an ungreased large cookie sheet, arrange triangles in ring so the short sides of triangles form a circle in the center. You can make it a wider circle if you want. Sometimes placing a bowl in the middle will help you create the circle more easily. Dough should overlap and look like the sun. The inner part of the circle should have a bit of thickness, almost like a little ditch.
Photo by Pillsbury
3. Spoon the mixture on the lower 1/3, the wide part of each triangle, creating a ring. Add a bit more cheese here if you want. Once filled, take each pointed end of the triangle and wrap it up and over the meat mixture, tucking it underneath. Voila, a ring! Some of the meat mixture will be visible within the spaces. That’s totally supposed to be like that. For a glossy finish, which I never bother to do, you can brush over the ring with an egg wash before baking.
Photo by Pillsbury
4. Bake for 20 minutes at 375 degrees or until the dough is golden brown.
After you remove the ring from the oven, fill the center with a bowl of salsa, guacamole or shredded lettuce, tomatoes, etc.
Enjoy!
Every once in a while a great opportunity comes along and you get a little more bang for your buck when it comes to being a cheerleader for all things local–you get a whole TEAM of cheerleaders. I’ve partnered with the NC Department of Agriculture’s Got to be NC program along with bloggers across the state, to highlight some of our local farmers. Bloggers like me, who love local goodness (I’ll call them my SQUAD), are shopping at their local NC farmer’s market, buying the ingredients for a meal and sharing the recipe with folks like you. We’ve got chicken and pork coming at you. I’ll share links to those at the end of this post.
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