How to make TACO PIE 🌮| Casserole | Lasagna Recipe | The BEST

sour cream

🥗Healthier: Greek yogurt

💰Cheaper: plain yogurt

Greek yogurt reduces calories while maintaining creaminess

shredded cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: processed cheese

Nutritional yeast is lower in fat and adds a cheesy flavor.

ground beef

🥗Healthier: ground turkey

💰Cheaper: ground chicken

Ground turkey is leaner, while ground chicken is often less expensive.

taco seasoning

🥗Healthier: homemade spice blend

💰Cheaper: individual spices

Homemade blends can control sodium and cost.

Heat a skillet and add oil.

Add one chopped onion and 2-3 cloves of chopped garlic to the skillet.

Add 2.5 pounds of ground beef and break it up with a fork while cooking.

Season with salt to taste, garlic powder, chili powder, oregano, coriander, cumin, and red pepper flakes.

Mix the spices into the ground beef thoroughly.

Add black beans to the ground beef mixture or layer them separately later.

Cut corn tortillas and layer them in the bottom of the baking dish.

Add a layer of the seasoned ground beef mixture on top of the tortillas.

Add a layer of corn, followed by another layer of corn tortillas.

Sprinkle shredded cheese in the middle of the layers.

Repeat the layering process with more tortillas, meat, corn, and cheese until all ingredients are used.

Top with chopped green onions and black olives.

Bake in the oven at 400°F for about 7 minutes until cheese is melted and green onions are cooked.

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