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Taco Potatoes are loaded with seasoned ground beef, cheese, lettuce, sour cream and salsa. These are so delicious and are everything you love about a taco and a comforting baked potato!

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Taco Potatoes are crazy good. I love everything about this fun and delicious meal. Taco potatoes take ordinary baked potatoes to new heights! Seasoned ground beef, cheese, lettuce, sour cream and salsa. Everything you love about a taco all over a potato.

This recipe was too easy, and so good! My kids loved them, my hubby loved them, and obviously I did, too… or I wouldn’t be blogging about them. 🙂 I’m a potato-loving freak, and this fun way to eat them makes me love them even more!

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Delicious baked potatoes topped with seasoned ground beef and all your favorite taco toppings!

Prep Time 1 hour hour 15 minutes minutes

Author Holly

Ingredients

4 to 6 medium Russet potatoes
1 pound lean ground beef
1 packet (1 ounce) taco seasoning

TOPPINGS

shredded lettuce
cheddar cheese
sour cream
salsa
guacamole
green onion

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400° F. Wash potatoes in water, then pat dry with paper towels. Poke a few holes in each potato, then wrap each of them in foil. Bake potatoes for 1 hour. Carefully remove hot potatoes from oven and set aside to cool slightly.
In a large skillet, brown and crumble ground beef over medium-high heat. Drain grease, if any. Add taco seasoning to beef and amount of water packet calls for. Bring mixture to a boil, then reduce heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes.
Remove foil from potatoes then cut a slit in the top to open. Fill each potato with ground beef and all of your favorite taco toppings. Enjoy!
(Serves 4 to 6)

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THANK YOU, Lofthouse…you post a new recipe and I instantly know what to make for dinner!!
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Thanks for dinner idea!
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This is the perfect weather for a “stuffed” potato, and such a good flavor.
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Sounds good! The time can be shortened if you use a microwave potato bag!!! I sew them for Amazon. Check out Microwavepotatobags.com on Amazon. Awesome 3 to 4 minutes and your potato is done!!!
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OMG!! The Taco Stuffed Baked potatoes are AWESOME!!!!
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Loved them! These potatoes have to be more nutritious then taco shells.
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My husband just renamed this meal “baked potaco”! So easy and yummy! Thanks!
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I made this for dinner last night. My husband and I absolutely loved it, as was evidenced by our perfectly clean plates. Thank you!
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What a fabulous and deliciously easy breezy meal! Another thing I love about the “Taco Baked Potato” recipe is it’s one of those “Read once and remember every single ingredient forever” recipe. Thanks!
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These were so easy, and everyone enjoyed them for Mexican night. Having never made stuffed potatoes before, I was worried it wasn’t going to be enough food. Thankfully I just went with it because it ended up being more then enough! These are very filling, very delicious and definitely worth repeating. Hubs and kids approved!
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1. So great to hear they were a success, Christine!:)
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This meal was absolutely amazing! It was a huge hit between my fiance and myself and if it were up to him, we’d be making it every single day! Thank you for such a tasty and easy recipe that i can throw into our rotation. 🙂
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We loved this. the second time that i made these I rubbed the potato with olive oil and then lightly sprinkled the entire skin with taco seasoning before wrapping in the foil. this infused the potato with a little more flavor. excellent addition.
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Your cooking sound like soMething my family wood lIke. Thank you!!!!
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We loved the taco
POTATOES! I added a can of
Mexicorn as an additonal
Topping. Yummy
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Made this for dinner and the whole fam loved it! Such a simple way to switch things up instead of using tortillas!
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Made this tonight for dinner. it was delicious. Thank you for sharing your recipe.
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