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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My family loves it we also added jalapenos
Sounds like a great idea to ad jalapenos!
Made this added jalapenoes and everyone loved it
Love it first time making it
So glad you liked it! :)
Charlie Gibson (Retired..Good Morning America) made this on the show, it looked soooo good I had to try it…..Home run!!!!
So glad you enjoyed it Linda!
Making this with beef tomorrow night. Which soup would be best?
Either works great, I usually use mushroom because I always have it on hand!
Loved it my family wished I had made a bigger pan . I added refried beans to it and put cheese on each layer . It was fast and easy to make and I made Mexican rice for a side I will be making this dish alot from now thanks for the recipe
I am so glad this was a hit with your family!
Why the soup? Would it be ok without it?
It adds creaminess. I have only made it as written, but if you do try it please let me know how it works out for you.
We are trying this tonight! Hope it tastes as good as it looks.
Made this for dinner tonight it was so good i added a can of refried beans in with the meat mixture it turnded out really tasty will definatly make this recipe again yummy
So glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you!!!! I made this as directed except I used half the doritos (by mistake, I doubled the recipe but forgot to grab extra chips). My husband just got up and got seconds! My son said he wants me to send him the recipe when he gets older so he can make it (he’s currently 8 lol). Only one I couldn’t please was my teenage daughter who thinks all food is gross. Thanks again!
Thanks so much for the Dorito casserole recipe. It has become a favorite at our houae. Making it again tonight. It’s perfect..
That is awesome! We are glad to hear it :) We love this recipe too!
on most of my Mexican dish I use a product that I get at Grocery Outlet calls taco meat it has all the taco seasoning in it. look a little funny before it is cooked but taste great and cost is pretty good we pay 4.99 a 2 lb. roll.
Sounds delicious and easy!
Im making this tonight for my husband and the kids.we cant wait to try it out.looks so good.thanks for sharing the recipe.
sounds so Yummy for my Family
Can I make this ahead of time and serve it col
This dish is best served hot.
Making it tonight! I can’t wait to try it!
Made this for tonight’s dinner, was really good!
I am so glad that you enjoyed it!
Make this even better…mix the taco meet with beef rice a roni prepared by the package. Blow your mind good
Sounds delicious!
I made the Doritos casserole tonight. It was so very good and I will be making it again but I was thinking next time I would put Doritos as a side due to them tasting kinda stale when they are baked.
Love your recipes, keep them coming
Thank you Judy!