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Tex-Mex Taco Salad

Seasoned beef over crisp lettuce with beans, cheese, salsa, and a shower of tortilla chips.

Tex-Mex Taco Salad, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
30 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$11.73

Ingredients

  • 1 1/4 lb ground beef (93% lean)
  • 1 taco seasoning packet
  • 1 iceberg lettuce
  • 15 oz canned black beans
  • 6 oz shredded mexican cheese blend
  • 8 oz jarred salsa
  • 6 oz tortilla chips
  • 3/4 lb roma tomatoes
  • 1/2 cup sour cream
  • 1 avocado(optional)

Method

  1. Brown the ground beef in a dry skillet over medium-high, breaking it up, 6 to 7 minutes.

  2. Stir in the taco seasoning and a splash of water and simmer 3 minutes until saucy.

  3. Warm the drained black beans in the same pan for a minute.

  4. Shred the iceberg and divide among four bowls. Dice the tomatoes.

  5. Top each bowl with beef, beans, tomatoes, cheese, salsa, and a spoon of sour cream.

  6. Crush a handful of tortilla chips over each just before serving, with avocado if you have it.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 9 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
United States$46.93$11.739 of 9 ingredients
Australia$65.96$16.499 of 9 ingredients
Mexico$1,001.49$250.379 of 9 ingredients
United Kingdom£28.16£7.048 of 9 ingredients
Canada$59.67$14.928 of 9 ingredients
New Zealand$69.60$17.407 of 9 ingredients
Egypt‏٥١١٫١٢ ج.م.‏‏١٢٧٫٧٨ ج.م.‏7 of 9 ingredients
Austria€ 36,35€ 9,097 of 9 ingredients
Spain19,25 €*4,81 €6 of 9 ingredients
Greece20,00 €*5,00 €5 of 9 ingredients
Germany8,82 €*2,21 €4 of 9 ingredients

* We have read fewer than seven in ten of these ingredients in that country, so the total is a partial figure and the real one is higher.

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