Easy Taco Recipe Dinner Board
Serve an Easy Taco Recipe Dinner Board for any meal, with your favorite toppings! Make crunchy tacos with turkey, beef, chicken, or pork! Happy #TacoTuesday
Happy Taco Tuesday, Friends! I hope you enjoy my Easy Taco Recipe Dinner Board! Grab the printable recipe and shopping list and invite some people over for tacos tonight! Grab The Big Board sizes/links below! You may also want to try my Easy Pork Carnitas Taco Board or our popular Epic Walking Taco Board.
Easy Taco Recipe Dinner Board
I am a hospitality lover. Bringing people together around food is what makes me happy. I credit my mother for teaching me how to make tacos!
Probably the first thing that comes to mind when we think of a Mexican menu is tacos! You may also love fish tacos! If so, try this Crunchy Breaded Fish Sticks Taco Board for an easy taco recipe dinner board.
Why we love an Easy Taco Recipe Dinner Board
We love to invite people over for tacos on the weekend. But we really love Taco Tuesday! I grew up with delicious tacos as a staple in my home, and have the fontest memories. It was my Mom who first introduced me to crunchy tacos. Of course you can fry tortillas the old-fashioned way, but when these crunchy shells were introduced in 1954, they made weeknight cooking a breeze.
Ingredients for Easy Taco Recipe Dinner Board
Let’s get started with our favorite toppings for this Epic Taco Board.
This board serves 10! What are your favorite taco toppings?
- Hot sauce
- Salsa
- Onions
- Lettuce
- Sour cream
- Olives
- Tomatoes
- Guac (avocados)
- and lots of CHEESE!
How to make the tacos
You need these ingredients:
- Taco shells
- Onion
- Ground turkey (or your favorite meat) + seasoning
- Cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes
- Salsa, corn salsa, sour cream, guacamole, olives, cilantro, and chips
- Taco sauce
Serve an Epic Taco Board on The Big Board
Setting out a dinner board is a casual way to host, and it’s fun to see the faces as the guests walk through the door. A taco board is so beautiful!
How to make the taco meat
- Cook a medium onion, and add your favorite meat and seasoning!
- Fill the taco shells with meat and cheese and bake for 5 minutes.
Everyone asks: How do you keep the tacos hot?
Easy TIP: Prepare the tacos and keep warm in the oven.
LEAVE in the oven until right before serving.
You can still prepare the board without the tacos!
Then pull from the oven, arrange on the board, and SERVE!
How to make a taco board
- Use an epic board (make sure it’s seasoned for food, or lay down parchment paper).
- In the center, place a bowl with shredded lettuce and tomatoes.
- Fill small bowls with your favorite salsa, guac, olives, and sour cream.
- Around the outside, leave room for 30 taco shells!
My Mom taught me the “how” of hospitality, but more importantly, she taught me the “why.” She modeled for us the importance of having people around our table—including messy dishes, sticky fingers, and lots of tacos.
Tacos are such an easy dish to make for company because everyone loves tacos!
Mom also leaned quietly into people’s hearts, and nourished those relationships, both inside my family and out. And through her modeling, I learned to do the same.
I am thankful for my Mom. Her passion for hospitality is one of the greatest gifts I received from her.
So thank you Mom, for Taco Tuesday!
Happy Hosting!
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More taco recipes:
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Easy Taco Recipe Dinner Board
Ingredients
- 30 taco shells
- 1 medium sweet onion, chopped
- 2 Tbsp. olive oil
- 2 pounds ground turkey
- 1 packet taco seasoning
- Salt and pepper
- 1 pound Tillamook Mexican 4-Cheese
- 1 16 oz. pkg. shredded lettuce
- 6 chopped Roma tomatoes
- 1 cup salsa
- 1 cup corn salsa, Trader Joe’s
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 cup guacamole
- 1 cup Pepita salsa, Trader Joe’s
- 1 can sliced olives
- 1 sliced red onion
- 1 jar LaVictoria Salsa
- 1 jar Cholula Salsa
- Cilantro for garnish
- Favorite chips
- Habanero pepper, garnish
Equipment
Instructions
- On a food-safe large board or tray, place a bowl in the center with shredded lettuce and tomatoes.
- Fill small bowls with your favorite salsa, guac, olives, and sour cream.
- Around the outside, leave room for 30 taco shells!
- To cook the meat, heat the oil in a large frying pan. Add the onion and cook for about 10 minutes, until tender. Add favorite meat and seasoning, cook until meat is browned. Season to taste!
- Heat oven to 350 degrees. Fill the taco shells with meat and cheese and bake for 5 minutes.
- Place the cooked tacos around the outside of the board. Fill in open areas with chips and hot sauce!
- Serve!
Hello and welcome to my home and table!
I’m Sandy—lover of food, family, cooking, THE BIG BOARD, travel, and bringing people together. Through great recipes and connection around the table, we become better, stronger, and more courageous people. Feasting on Life is real, and every time we do it, we grow a little more. Read more...
I found your blog via this recipe. It is so good and the presentation is festive. It is so nice to add little party to everyday and family meals. This has become the only way we do tacos.
Love all your amazing ideas. I purchased the large tray and would like to try to recreate your Taco Board. In the recipe, it says to add the onion and sauce for about 10 minutes, until tender. I’m not sure what sauce your are referring to. Sorry if it is obvious and I am just not seeing it. Thanks again for all your inspiration.
Add onion and “cook” for about 10 minutes. (not sauce–fixed!)
Yummy! That looks sooooo delicious!
Looks great for a party, but how do you keep the taco shells from becoming soggy? Especially if you want it ready befor your guests arrive?
Make them up and keep warm in the oven! WE didn’t experience soggy tacos!
Sandy, baking the tacos with the meat and cheese for five minutes is such a great idea, tried it and loved it!! Thank you. Going through all your other wonderful ideas for inspiration!
Thanks Carolyn! :)
Spectacular! What a fabulous presentation and easy way to serve tacos to guests! Love the idea
Hello when u sanded ur Gabrielle board to season it did u lose the hand-carved design? I’m trying to figure out how much to sand and if u used a fine-grit or rough sand paper??? I would greatly appreciate a reply!?
You can just clean the board really well and rub down with beeswax and mineral oil (since it’s wood), or I just lightly sanded and then did that process. It’s up to you. You can also use parchment paper if you don’t feel comfortable with that. Thanks!
Where did you purchase that tray? I love it! And need it in my life!
Link in the post! :)
Love this board. Can’t wait to make it and invite some friends over. And, love your words about your mom.
Hello,
I absolutely love this idea, also where did you get the board.. thank you
Here you go Carrie:
https://reluctantentertainer.com/category/the-big-board/
Just found your blog – obsessed with this idea! Now I have to get a taco board and come up with a reason to make 30 tacos lol!
what a fun serving idea. please can you help me. i am not sure if we can buy ready made small tacos like yours. and if yes what brand wil it be. i have a party and intend to serve as a snack item. thanks for such beautiful inspiration
I’m not aware of any ready-made small tacos!
I found a board similar to yours at Ross. How do I know if it’s seasoned for food as you say? Can I do this myself if it isn’t? Thank you! Love your ideas ❤️
We now sell our own food safe boards:
https://reluctantentertainer.com/category/the-big-board/
Where can I find this AWESOME serving board???!!!
I LOVE this idea! Some of my family is vegan and others are not. This would be a great way to feed everyone at once! (Some tacos would be jackfruit, beef, or chicken.) Where did you get that fantastic – I mean EPIC tray? This is something I need in my life.
Where can I find a big tray like that??
I love your board!! Where on earth did you get it??
I bought it in the store at Pier 1 a couple years ago!
You are my new inspiration! I am planning on hosting a long table sit down dinner for 40 people (outside). Mexican meal theme, using your taco & chips/salsa boards. How would you suggest serving this? Having people serve themselves with the food boards on a serving table?
WHERE did you get your board?! I need it!!!!
Where did you get the fabulous serving tray!
Where can I find s board like this
I received this recipe just in the best moment: I want to invite some friends to my home but I was not sure about what to prepare, and this is wonderful to the afternoon in the balcony with my friends. Thanks a lot!
Can you tell me where I could purchase your taco board?
Where did you find your taco platter?
what a fun serving idea and great thing to serve in the first place, basically a wheel of tacos, who wouldn’t love that?
Yes please! Love a good taco!!