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Food Challenge Week 6:  Salsa and Taco Salad

2/13/2016

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The crock-pot is an amazing appliance that I have been (gratefully, and self-imposed) forced into relying on these past 6 weeks.  I'm happy to say that I haven't burned out on creativity (yet) and am excited to share this easy and delicious crock-pot taco salad with homemade salsa.  
I was actually inspired by a recipe on Pillsbury.com, a blog I don't frequent much.  I made the ground beef in the crock-pot over night and ate it once on a bed of greens with avocado and another time in a tortilla with some tabouli (I'll share that one soon!)  

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Ingredients:
-3 lbs ground beef
-olive oil to grease the crock pot
-1 medium onion, diced
-1 cup of corn (cooked and cut off the husk, or frozen) *optional
​-about 2 cups homemade salsa

Salsa:
-3-4 medium tomatoes
-1 small bell pepper
-1 jalapeño pepper
-2 Tbls guac or taco seasoning
-1 Tbls lime juice


Directions:
1. Start with the salsa.  Roughly chop the tomatoes and peppers.
2. Pulse the tomatoes, peppers and lime juice in a food processor until it's the texture you prefer.  I ran mine until it was nice and smooth.  It took about 15 seconds.  
3. Add the seasoning and pulse a couple more times to mix it all together.

4. Grease the crockpot bottom and sides with olive oil.  
5.  Press the ground beef like a crust onto the bottom and up the sides of the crock pot so it's about 1 inch thick everywhere.  
6.  Add the onions and corn overtop the beef "crust."
7.  Pour your homemade salsa overtop everything.
8.  Cook for about 8 hours on low.  Scoop out the meat and place it in a fine mesh strainer to drain the juices.
9.  It's ready to eat however you want to!

Ideas for Eating:
Serve it in the traditional taco salad fashion.  Over a bed of greens, with any toppings you want!  I went with a bed of spinach and herbs, and a quick little mix of avocado, cilantro, bell pepper and fresh tomatoes.  
You could also throw it in a wrap with similar ingredients.  I paired with with tabouli (pictured above) and it was delicious that way as well.  Although, I have to say, I think I prefer just the traditional taco salad ingredients.  Enjoy!

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Michael link
5/7/2019 01:52:13 pm

This looks really yummy!

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    ​Hey!  It's Trish.

    My 52-in-52 is a year long challenge in healthy eating and staying fit.  
    I have had a lot of friends and family get in touch with me to let me know they'll be joining me for part or all of this year's challenges.  
    I'm so excited!  
    You are all keeping me accountable, so for that I am very 
    grateful.  

    Let's do this! 
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