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Home » Chili Pepper Recipes » Tacos » Easy Spicy Taco Bowls

Easy Spicy Taco Bowls

by Mike Hultquist · May 4, 2018 · 2 Comments

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Easy Spicy Taco Bowls are perfect for both lunch and dinner! Taco bowls are all dressed up with seasoned ground beef and rice, roasted jalapeño peppers, diced avocados and tomatoes, and sprinkled with spicy chili flakes and your favorite hot sauce.

Easy Spicy Taco Bowls - Recipe

Easy Spicy Taco Bowls

Need a quick and easy dinner? Say no more. This is a truly quick recipe, and by quick, I mean 5 minutes prep time and 15 minutes cooking time. OK, MAYBE 20 minutes cooking time if you're a slow cook like me, but seriously? That's pretty easy, and the flavor is AWESOME.

Ground beef is made flavorful with onions, jalapeños, garlic and a medley of bold seasonings. It's then served with rice and all of your favorite fixings!

Fresh veggies like jalapeños, tomatoes, and avocados are just a few of my usual go-to toppings. Feel free to toss on some homemade pico do gallo if you'd like!

Ingredients for this Taco Bowl Recipe

  • Olive oil
  • Onion
  • Jalapeño pepper
  • Ground beef
  • Garlic
  • Taco seasoning
  • Cayenne powder
  • Red pepper flakes
  • Hot sauce
  • Rice
  • Avocado
  • Tomato
  • Roasted jalapeño
  • Cilantro

How to Make Taco Bowls

Cook the ground beef. Heat a large pan over medium heat and add olive oil. Add the jalapeños, onion and ground beef. Cook them down until the ground beef is cooked mostly through, about 5 minutes.

Make the meat more flavorful. Add the garlic and stir. Cook another minute, then add your taco seasonings, cayenne, chili flakes and hot sauce and about a half cup of water. Stir and simmer for 10 minutes to let the flavors absorb and the liquid reduce. You can simmer longer if you'd like.

Assemble the bowls. Spoon the rice into bowls, then add the taco meat. Top with fresh herbs, tomato, avocado, roasted jalapeno and extra spicy chili flakes. Add on any other topping you desire. Serve with extra hot sauce!

Recipe Tips & Notes

  • Use your favorite taco seasoning. Here is my favorite - homemade taco seasoning recipe.
  • Don't forget the hot sauce! Send these bowls over the top with some homemade hot sauce. There are so many options to choose from that are sweeter, milder, and full blown spicy!
  • Toppings can make or break it. A taco bowl without toppings? I can't imagine such a thing. Try some classics like spicy guacamole to shake things up.

Storage

Once your bowl is assembled, it's best served fresh with all of your toppings. However, just the cooked rice and ground beef will stay fresh in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days.

Easy Taco Bowls are ready in 20 minutes. Here is the recipe.

Try Some of My Other Popular Taco Recipes

  • Slow Cooker Pork Carnitas
  • Szechuan Salmon Tacos
  • Crock Pot Taco Soup
  • Juicy Turkey Tacos

Enjoy! Let me know how these turn out for you. Send pics! Post it on Instagram! Here's me: https://www.instagram.com/chilipeppermadness. See you there!

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Easy Spicy Taco Bowls Recipe

A quick and easy lunch or dinner recipe for any day of the week, these taco bowls are filled with seasoned ground beef and rice, topped with roasted jalapeno peppers, diced avocado and tomato, then sprinkled with spicy chili flakes and your favorite hot sauce. Tacos in a bowl!
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Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Mexican
Keyword: ground beef, jalapeno, tacos
Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes minutes
Calories: 591kcal
Author: Mike Hultquist
Servings: 4
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Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 onion chopped
  • 1 jalapeno pepper chopped
  • 1 pound ground beef
  • 4 cloves garlic minced
  • 2 tbsp taco seasonings use your favorite
  • 1 tsp cayenne powder
  • 1 tsp red chili flakes + more for serving
  • 2 tbsp hot sauce use your favorite + more for serving
  • 1 cup rice cooked
  • 1 avocado diced
  • 1 tomato diced
  • 1 roasted jalapeno sliced
  • 1 tbsp chopped cilantro

Instructions

  • Heat a large pan to medium heat and add the olive oil. Add the jalapenos, onion and ground beef. Cook them down until the ground beef is cooked mostly through, about 5 minutes.
  • Add the garlic and stir. Cook another minute, then add your taco seasonings, cayenne, chili flakes and hot sauce and about a half cup of water. Stir and simmer for 10 minutes to let the flavors absorb and the liquid reduce. You can simmer longer if you'd like.
  • Spoon the rice into bowls, then add the taco meat. Top with fresh herbs, tomato, avocado, roasted jalapeno and extra spicy chili flakes. Add on any other topping you desire.
  • Serve with extra hot sauce!

Notes

Heat Factor: Medium-Hot. You can REALLY up the heat with a crazy HOT hot sauce, or by using extra spicy chili flakes. I have some 7-Pot flakes here that blast this up.

Nutrition Information

Calories: 591kcal   Carbohydrates: 46g   Protein: 24g   Fat: 34g   Saturated Fat: 10g   Cholesterol: 80mg   Sodium: 371mg   Potassium: 744mg   Fiber: 5g   Sugar: 2g   Vitamin A: 825IU   Vitamin C: 21.2mg   Calcium: 49mg   Iron: 3.2mg
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  1. Mark Kuzma says

    September 12, 2021 at 5:35 pm

    5 stars
    how much garlic is supposed to go into this recipe? Step 2 says to add in the garlic but there's no measure

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    • Michael Hultquist - Chili Pepper Madness says

      September 13, 2021 at 5:55 am

      Mark, I used 4 cloves garlic, but you can adjust to your preferences. I updated the recipe to reflect this. Thank you.

      Reply

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