That’s right, a Dorito Casserole—a delicious dinner!
Seasoned ground beef, salsa, and sour cream is layered with your favorite flavor of Doritos and lots of cheese.
Add your favorite taco-inspired toppings for a new family favorite.
Holly’s Recipe Highlights
- Versatile: It’s easy to make with simple ingredients. Customize with your favorite Dorito flavor and toppings.
- Prep Ahead: This casserole can be assembled a day ahead. Cover it tightly and store it in the refrigerator. Just leave the Doritos off until ready to bake.
- Family Friendly: Perfect for feeding a crowd or family. It’s kid-friendly and fun to eat!
Ingredients For Dortios Casserole
- Doritos: There are many flavors of Doritos, use your favorite (I use Nacho Cheese). Try siracha, cool ranch, or spicy-sweet chili.
- Meat: This recipe uses lean ground beef seasoned with taco seasoning.
- Sauce: The creamy sauce combines condensed soup, sour cream, and salsa (mild or hot). It’s easy and delicious.
- Cheese: Cheddar or a Mexican cheese blend works well here.
Variations
- Filling: Mix refried beans or black beans into the meat mixture, add extra vegetables, like corn or green chiles, or stretch the casserole by adding rice.
- Toppings: Top with your favorite vegetables like shredded lettuce or fresh diced tomatoes, or add a dollop of sour cream or guacamole on top of each serving.
- Garnish: Before serving sprinkle with cilantro, sliced green onions, or olives for added flavor.
How To Make Dorito Casserole
- Brown ground beef and onion.
- Combine the meat mixture with the remaining filling ingredients (full recipe below).
- Layer in the casserole dish and bake.
Add your favorite toppings and serve!
Holly’s Casserole Tips
- For crushing the Doritos, place them in a bag and crush them by hand, but not too small.
- Drain the fat from the ground beef so the casserole is not too runny.
- Buy pre-shredded cheese to make the assembly easier.
- Spray the tin foil with cooking oil so it doesn’t stick to the top layer of cheese.
- Remember to remove the foil for the last 20 minutes. This will help the casserole top layer turn brown and bubbly.
Cozy u0026 Comforting Casseroles
Did you make this Layered Doritos Casserole? Leave a rating and comment below.
Layered Doritos Casserole
Seasoned ground beef and salsa create a filling that's perfect for layering with cheese and Doritos.
Equipment
Ingredients
- 14.5 ounces Doritos 1 bag, any flavor
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- 1 yellow onion diced
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 1 cup salsa
- 1 package low sodium taco seasoning or homemade taco seasoning
- 1 cup sour cream
- 10.5 ounces condensed cream of chicken soup or cream of mushroom soup, 1 can
- 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese or mexican blend, divided
- toppings as desired see notes
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Cook ground beef with onion and garlic until no pink remains. Drain any fat.
- Add salsa, taco seasoning, and ⅓ cup of water. Cook until thickened, about 5 minutes, and remove from heat.
- In a large bowl, combine beef mixture, sour cream, soup and 1 cup of cheese.
- Slightly crush Doritos (not completely, you don’t want crumbs). Layer 1 ½ cups Doritos in the bottom of a 2 qt casserole dish . Top with ½ of the beef mixture. Repeat layers. Finally top with an additional 1 to 1 ½ cups Doritos and remaining cheese.
- Spray a piece of foil with cooking spray and cover casserole.
- Bake 30 minutes covered, remove foil and bake uncovered for an additional 20 minutes or until hot and bubbly. Top with lettuce, tomatoes and olives if desired.
Notes
Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.
Nutrition calculated without optional toppings.
Optional toppings: lettuce, tomato, olives, sour cream
Nutrition Information
Calories: 560 | Carbohydrates: 36g | Protein: 26g | Fat: 33g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Cholesterol: 96mg | Sodium: 985mg | Potassium: 494mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 715IU | Vitamin C: 2.7mg | Calcium: 255mg | Iron: 2.2mg
Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.
Course Beef, Casserole, Dinner, Entree
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I Love these type of recipes, however, Doritos and the Condensed soup contains a lot of Sodium and people similar to me can not enjoy these types of dishes because of Monsodium Glutmate and Sodium – we get really sick. Would you be able to add a *Optional Ingredient swap out* idea to these type of recipes – I am not sure what to use as a substitute for the Condensed Soup and I might be able to find another brand of chips that doesn’t cause illness and allergy reactions so severely. I love to read your recipes and have even tried various ones…but this one has stumped me – but I would LOVE to enjoy something that doesn’t make me ill to eat. Thank you for your time and support
I’d recommend making homemade condensed chicken soup, it’s linked directly in the recipe too. I haven’t tried another variety of chips since this recipe is “Dorito casserole” but I’m certain any variety will work.
Odd question. The recipe sounds yummy, especially since I am addicted to Doritos. But they are so unhealthy. However, I have a bag of stale , plain tortilla chips. I wonder if they would
soften in the juicy filling, but be a bit healthier and lower sodium than Doritos, albeit not quite as decadent .
Hi Nancy, I have only made this recipe as listed but other readers have used Tostitos with good results. I would love to hear how it turns out for you.
A big hit with family.
Our kids loved this and told me not to lose this recipe.
If the condensed soup is canned, should you add water to it?
Hi Bill, the only water you need to add is the 1/3 cup thats listed in the recipe.
I wanted to make a similar recipe, but couldn’t find it, found yours! I had already added refried beans to the Hamburg and seasoning, then didn’t have any cream of chicken soup. Used a can of cheddar cheese soup. So I’m sure hoping it comes out edible.
This recipe was a hit at our house. I made it with Cool Ranch Doritos, as they are our favorite.
Can you make this as a freezer meal?
I haven’t tried freezing it. If I did, I would freeze it before baking and cook it the same way I would cook a frozen lasagna. If you do try it, I’d love to hear how it works for you because I’m sure other readers will have the same question! :)
Good go to for kids. They see cheese and doritos it’s on!!!
it’s ugly looking but the taste is outstanding I will put this in my rotation
Just a tip for warming up the leftovers – microwave it until hot, then put it in a VERY hot frying pan (sprayed with cooking spray) to finish it. This crisps up the bottom layer of Doritos, which is so much better than soggy in my book. I do the same thing when I warm up pizza.
Love this tip, thanks for sharing!
Made many times and this time got the perfect combo. Never layered chips after first time, just added well crushed chips to mixture. Only other changes were two cups of Costco salsa, one small can of sliced olives, GENEROUS cup of sour cream and one can of refried beans. This time used Lime Jalapeño tortilla chips which I found at Winco and I crushed. MAJOR uptake in taste from the Nacho cheese chips. Mixed sautéed onion, beef and garlic with all other ingredients and produced the yummiest of all my tries.
We loved it! I did not have onions, garlic or salsa, so I left those out. I used the Taco Bell Mild Taco Seasoning and it did not disappoint. I used cream of mushroom soup instead of cream of chicken and I ran out of doritos, so the bottom was doritos and the top layer I crunched up Taco Bell’s Crunchy Corn Taco Shells. I put it in a 9 x 13 pan and only ended up baking it for only 40 minutes – the last 8 minutes uncovered. It was absolutely perfect and we will be having it again!
So I skip the onion and just make taco seasoned meat, and if ground beef is hard to get, I tried subbing half with a cup of quinoa cooked in chicken broth/bouillon, I also add a can of drained navy beans for extra “veggies”. It’s my go to for meal trains now, and I send it with a bag of shredded lettuce, extra Doritos, homemade salsa and tortilla chips. Finally a meal that my kids will eat!! Thank you!
Hello, I have long intended to drop a note to let you know that I have made this so many times. This so easy to make and taste great. I always keep the ingredients on hand when I start to crave it, which is often. Thank you for the recipe.
Thank you so much for coming back and leaving a comment. I’m glad you’ve loved it Gloria.
Simply amazing. I’ve had this recipe bookmarked for 5 years. Back in 2017 when I was staying with my Aunt and Uncle I suggested this recipe and it was a hit with the both of them (they’re 60!). I’d already had the meal prior and I was eager to share it with them. Since then I’ve sent this recipe to my Aunt 2 more times and she’s made it 3 or 4 times now. Just telling her I was gonna make this had her asking for the recipe again. I just recently moved into my first apartment and have gradually begun to learn how to cook by following recipes. This is the 3rd meal I’ve cooked on my own and it turned out great. It taste just as I remember 5 years ago and it’s even better knowing I did it myself. I was able to follow the recipe step by step. I didn’t deviate as I’m a beginner and the final result was delicious. The chips were neither stale nor soggy. The casserole wasn’t salty either. I’m an extremely picky eater so it’s hard for me to find recipes that interest me, but this checked all my boxes and bonus of living alone, I get to eat the whole thing myself!
Congratulations on the new apartment! I’m so glad you loved this recipe Jade, Happy Cooking!
You must try this recipe. This is delicious and everyone enjoyed it.
Another winner!! I used nacho cheese Doritos like in your recipe and cream of chicken soup, since we don’t care for cream of mushroom. Usually use shredded iceberg with these type of recipes for garnish, but only had romaine in the fridge, so julienned some with a diced romaine tomato (always available) for topping. It’s a keeper! ;) Thanks again.
We love this easy casserole!! It’s full of flavor! Thanks for all the awesome recipes!
You’re welcome Claudia!
We love this recipe. We make it about every other month when we are ready for a nice simple recipe to make for the weekend that can go into the week for lunches. Simple and oh so good.
My family and I love this dish. My husband is super picky and usually won’t eat anything with sour cream in it, but he will eat this every time I make it. It is super easy and taste great. I usually don’t have any left over.