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.
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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.
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Did you make this Layered Doritos Casserole? Leave a rating and comment below.
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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We used leftover turkey from Thanksgiving because we just don’t like the texture of ground beef. We also used Nacho Cheese Doritos, Ro-Tel tomatoes, & both Cream of Mushrooms, & Cream of Chicken soups! It was absolutely delicious!! Definitely a keeper!!
What size pan to bake it in? 13×9?
This is delish! And yes it tastes great reheated. My family loves it!
Have you ever re-heated this?
I have a dog sitter coming for Friday night and was thinking of making it Thursday for him
and hopefully he can re-heat it.
Does anyone know if this will work?
Thanks!
Lee-Anne
Thanks for the yummy recipe. I added hot sauce and chopped green onions to the toppings when served to my family.
Can I leave out the Sour Cream?
I have only tried the recipe as written. If you try it please let us know how it works out for you!
Ohhh myyy gaaaawd!
Yes, I am a grown up woman and I said it!
It is just that good!!! Bless you for sharing the joy!!! ;)
My whole family would go nuts over this!
I can’t recall the last time I bought doritos… but… yeah, I will totally be throwing some in the cart tomorrow!!
Okay, so seriously, how could something with layers of Doritos not taste amazing!? I can tell this would cause major cravings…my kids will thank you for this. Added to the menu…
I admit it…..I love Doritos. I know, I know….I just can’t help it!
No judgement on having Doritos for dinner….one of my favorite family recipes involve Doritos for dinner. This looks fantastic.
I need to make this- Any excuse to use doritos with something NOT just as a dip vehicle!
Made this last night and family loved it. Thanks for such a tasty recipe. Definitely good for a TRY IT THURSDAY. ❤
I’m so glad your family enjoyed this!
Delicious, thanks for sharing with Hearth and soul blog hop, pinning and tweeting
I LOVE Doritos and this looks like an awesome recipe. I pinned it for future reference.
We love Doritos casserole’s here in our house… I mean combining tacos and Doritos can never be a bad thing right? Your recipe looks great, I’ll have to give it a try :D
I would love to make this, but I need it to be gluten free & can’t use cream soup, any ideas? Thank you, Ann
Because I don’t follow a gluten-free lifestyle, I’m not 100% sure what ingredients you are able to have. Would a recipe making your own “cream of” soup work? https://www.spendwithpennies.com/homemade-condensed-cream-mushroom-soup/
what kind of salsa did you use for this casserole?
I use Pace Chunky Medium because it’s the brand I usually have in my fridge. :)
Will this still be good with 98% fat free cream of chicken soup?
You can use regular or fat free, whatever you prefer.
I was a little disappointed in this. It had a good taste but the top was dry when I took it from yhe oven. I baked as directed & covered with foil. Not sure what happened.
This is a delicious dish! I modified for my families taste buds though and it came out excellent… We used ranch dressing in place of sour cream and added corn and some shredded lettuce, and mixed in some of the crushed chips with the meat mixture… Huge hit!
I’m so glad your family loved it!
What does it mean by drained salsa???
In step 1 you place the salsa in a strainer to drain any liquid while preparing the beef.
I have frozen, tho, only the meat sauce. When ready to make again and I thaw out the meat sauce and use fresh Doritos, shredded cheese and toppings,. This turns out better than the entire casserole being frozen, to my taste buds. Thanks! PS – I also add fresh shucked corn, off the cobb, to the meat mixture. So YuM! Also have I don’t drain the salsa, as when baking, the Doritos soak up the juice. Not soggy at all!
Thank you for the tips KB!