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.
Cozy u0026 Comforting Casseroles
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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I have made this recipe before. My family and I really loved it! Making it again tonite!
I made this Layered Dorito Casserole last night. Instead of regular taco mix, I used spicy taco mix and wow – it was spicy! I topped each serving with lettuce, tomatoes, salsa, and a big dollop of sour cream to cool down the spice hit. It worked! This is a very flavorful recipe.
I will make this again but cut down on the Doritos, as they just seemed a bit too much. I used lean ground beef (93%), regular sour cream, and mild salsa (glad I didn’t use medium or hot!). The leftovers will be frozen, vacuum-sealed, and go into the freezer for another day.
Has anyone used cheddar cheese soup instead of cream of chicken or mushroom?
Hi! This looks delicious and my daughter is craving tacos tonight!
How does this double and is a 2 qt dish equivalent to a 9×13 lasagna dish?
Thanks,
Lesly
If you double it, a 9×13 dish should work fine. You make need to increase cooking time.
We really enjoyed this. My grandson went back several time for more.
I am so glad your family enjoyed this recipe Colleen!
I made this tonight and it wad great! My family loved it and i will be making this again! My picky eater even said it was good mama and while i was making it she said”mama are you really putting all that stuff on my chips” lol
I will prepare this for my cookie party, but I plan to use Jimmy Dean Sausage along with Rotel tomatoes. Thanks
This was everything I hoped it would be! Just what I was looking for. AND it did NOT
disappoint. Thank you very much for this recipe!
Jim
So glad you loved it!
What do you usually serve with this casserole?
I like to serve it with a fresh salad and/or a veggie side such as corn.
I have made this several times, instead of soup and salsa I mix in my homemade red chili and it comes out great!! Will try to using salsa and soup with a chicken dorito bake!
OMGosh! YUM! I’m definitely trying this with my leftover chili next time!
I’m going to make this recipe. But I can’t find at all what type of pan you used and if I didn’t read the comments about straining the salsa I wouldn’t of known. I read through your whole post a few times and maybe I missing something but I can’t find those two things.
I used a 9×9, but any smaller size casserole dish should work just fine. Lauren, we’ve adjusted the recipe slightly so that you don’t need to strain the salsa. Let us know how it turns out for you!
Very good & easy. I’ve been trying to get my daughter, aged 12, to get involved with cooking and she made her first meal (by herself) via this recipe tonight. Great success for the family and even her brother, aged 11, told her she did a good job. (WOW) Thank you for sharing!!
It’s so great to get the kids cooking! Thank you for sharing!
Just made this tonight. We all liked it a lot. It uses ingredients that I always have on hand. So it can be a last minute go-to recipe.
Could you make this ahead then bake? Would the chips get soggy?
You can certainly make this ahead of time. The Doritos do soften to the texture of a corn tortilla. Enjoy!
Very tasty!
Glad you enjoyed it!
just done this for my tea and its amazin will deffo be added to are weekly meals
Family loved this casserole!
Good boy
Sounds so good!
I like your recipes but there are no serving sizes. Am I missing something?
Most serving sizes are about 1 cup. I hope this helps!