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Tarantula Tacos Recipe


Tarantula Tacos Recipe
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These are great for brunch lunch or for the Halloween party. A nice looking dish sure to deilght everyone. This recipe and phot was adapted from the Betty Crocker 2009 Calendar ( General Mills )

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Ingredients
  • Ingredients:
  • 1 Box ( 4.7-oz ) Old El Paso Stand n Stuff taco shells
  • 1 Lb. Lean ( 80% fat free) ground beef
  • 1 Pkg. ( 1-oz ) Old El Paso seasoning mix
  • 2/3 cup water
  • 1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese ( 4-oz )
  • 1 ½ cups shredded lettuce
  • 1 Medium tomato, chopped ( ¾ cup )
  • ¼ cup light sour cream
  • 20 Extra-large Pitted ripe Olives

Directions
  1. 1)preheat oven to 325. Heat taco shells in oven as directed on box.
  2. 2)Meanwhile, in a 10-inch skillet, cook ground beef over medium-high heat, stirring frequently, until beef is thoroughly cooked; drain. Stir in taco seasoning mix and water. Reduce heat to medium; cook uncovered about 5 minutes, stirring frequently, until water has evaporated. Remove from heat.
  3. 3)Spoon beef mixture into the heated taco shells. Top with cheese, lettuce and tomato.
  4. 4)Spoon light sour cream into a small resealable food-storage plastic bag. Seal bag; cut a tiny hole in the corner of the bag. Pipe sour cream over top of each taco to resemble a spiderweb.
  5. 5)For each spider, top taco with 1 olive, pitted end down. Cut second olive lengthwise into 8 pieces; place around the whole olive for the legs. For eyes, squeeze 2 dots of sour cream on to top of olive.
  6. 6)Ready to serve.
  7. Serving size is 2 tacos

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Love Tacos! FIVE to you! :+D


Where was these idea when i was younger!?
it great! high 5


YuMMY! and since I'm a spider lover, they're super cute too! ^5!


I love Halloween and this is a great idea. Thanks, Ed, for finding it! 5UP

Dianne


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