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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Love your recipes. Thank you so much for all your recipe shares.
Thankyou Sharon!
Why is the soup even necessary?
It adds a creamy base to the recipe.
I had a MAJOR Dortios obsession when I was a kid. I’d come home from school and eat most of a large bag. What I wouldn’t give for that metabolism again :)
Ahh yes the elusive teenaged metabolism… :) Doritos is definitely one of my all time favorite treats. I don’t eat them often but I sure do love them!
wondering which soup taste the best with the dorito casserole
I prefer cream of chicken.
What if your not a sour cream fan is there a substitute?
You can use Greek yogurt in place or the sour cream.
This recipe sounds tasty. I think I’ll try ground turkey in place of the ground beef, though. Thanks, for the cool recipe.
Made this tonight just as written. Excellent! My son ate almost half the casserole! Definitely in my rotation of meals now. Hubby raved over it. So yummy!
I’m so glad your family love this dish!
What do you set the oven temperature at?
I set it at 350 (as in step #1).
It all looks so good, I will be cooking this tomorrow
I made it exactly as instructed, and it didn’t look like the picture at all. The sour cream & soup mixture gave it a very light color and I think also caused the flavors to become too mellow so nothing really stood out except the Doritos. I’ve been wanting a recipe like this, so I’ll try it again but without the soup.
Barbara,
Don’t eliminate the soup. It truly does add to the flavor. However, try using a spicier salsa and instead of using water, save the juice from the salsa and use that instead. I use Tostitos restaurant style salsa (the purple lid). It has some kick but is not overly spicy, IMO.
I have made this recipe a few times now. Most recently last night to use up the Doritos that got demolished while traveling on vacation. I was left with a bag of mostly crumbs that no one would eat. My only change to this recipe is the addition of chopped green onions for additional garnish and…. I felt that draining the salsa was wasteful, so I kept the juice that was drained and used it in place of the water with the ground beef & taco seasoning. Otherwise…. SUPER EASY! SUPER DELICIOUS!
So glad you loved it! Great idea to sub the drained juice in for water!
I would definitely not drain the salsa, I would just add it to the ground beef and onions and let the liquid evaporate. Mix the other ingredients as listed.
Will try it
I notice in the recipe it says salsa but not an amount.How much?
You will need 1 cup of salsa.
Omg…i’ve finally made the Doritoes layered casserole tonight…it was sooo Good! I’ve had it saved on my phone’s start screen for almost a year…i will definitely make it again and again…it’s so easy to make…make sure you have a glass of red wine close by
LOL! So glad you finally were able to make this, we love it too! (And yes, a glass of red wine should always be nearby… always)!! :)
which soup did you use , the cream of chicken or mushroom? Im confused at which soup to use
You can use either however I usually use cream of chicken.
Do I mix the soup with water are just use condensed
Just use the soup condensed.
I completely forgot to add the soup! It was sitting right in front of me. Before I noticed I had it all together and in the oven!!
Hope it was still yummy!
Why drain the salsa and use water, why not substitute the juice from the salsa instead of the water? It would enhance the flavor.
Great suggestion!
do u add the water/milk the cream soup calls for on the can?
No, just add the canned soup as is.
What type of salsa
I personally use Pace medium but any salsa will work in this recipe!