Easy Tex Mex Taco Salad Recipe - Passion for Food

The key to a good Tex Mex style dish is the delicate restaurant style seasoned beef! We have all seen those packets of "Taco Seasoning" at the grocery store.. The problem I have with those is the flavors tend to be un-balanced, and the cooking instructions somewhat backwards. Most of them suggest you cook the meat with the seasoning THEN add water and reduce. Doing it in that order totally misses the point of using water in the first place, which is to gently break apart the meat cooking it slowly till its nice and tender. The way the seasoning packets suggest we do things is basically just to build a 'sauce' covering your seasoned meat. But the way we are going to do it actually seasons the meat all the way through, and cooks it to soft and tender perfection!

Restaurant Style Tex Mex Ground Beef Recipe

• 1.5lbs ground beef (or other meat of your choice) 
• 1 Teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 Teaspoon onion powder
• 1 Teaspoon cumin powder
• 1 Tablespoon chili powder
• 1 Tablespoon salt
• ~1 Teaspoon ground pepper to taste

Enjoy!