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September 16, 2025
Cheesy Mexican beef and bean bake Recipe
A bubbly casserole of kinds, this Mexican beef and bean is sort of a baked model of chilli con carne with a lot of melty cheese – however quicker to make. Consider it like your final all-purpose Mexican beef – stuff in tacos, DIY burrito wraps, dunk with corn chips – like nachos!
I can’t keep in mind how this Mexican beef and bean dish first got here to be. All I do know is that when it got here out of the oven in all its bubbly, melty tacky glory, I needed to get caught into instantly however paralysed with indecision for a way. So many choices!
Like chili, with a heat tortillas on the aspect for dunking??
OR with corn chips, deconstructed nachos type?
Making stuffed tortilla pillows?? Which, I realised, is only a burrito truly. 😂 *Mild-bulb-moment* DIY burritos! Add a pile of heat tortillas, bitter cream + guacamole or fast avocado sauce for dunking. Everyone make your personal!
All-inclusive-taco filling? So juicy and tacky already, it’s like a great ole’ traditional beef mince taco filling + taco sauce + cheese, all rolled into one. Effectivity, for the win!
Then one other light-bulb second. That is like the last word all-purpose Mexican beef filling!! It’s nearly a bit regarding how excited I used to be once I got here to this conclusion. Good meals has a behavior of doing that to me. 🤭
Right here’s what it is advisable to make this Mexican beef and bean bake:
This can be a informal, rustic dish – which implies, a lot of flexibility. I’m not so relaxed with substitutions for some recipes, so take it when you’ll be able to! 😂
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Floor beef / beef mince – Or chicken, turkey or pork. Any of those would work. (Even lamb truly).
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Pink onion – Or atypical brown / yellow onions.
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Inexperienced capsicum (bell pepper) – Or different color capsicum, or different sauté-able greens like diced zucchini/courgette, carrot, inexperienced beans (chopped), corn. Even a cup of diced combined frozen greens would work right here!
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Pink kidney beans – Or black beans (on theme with Mexican meals), or some other beans of selection. Or, extra greens.
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Tomato passata – That is pureed, strained tomato that’s clean, relatively than lump like canned tomato. Substituted with crushed canned tomato, or what’s known as tomato sauce or tomato puree within the US (eg Hunts).
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Pickled jalapeno – Provides a sprinkle of spiciness plus tang as a result of it’s pickled which is sweet on this beefy dish. Canned chopped inexperienced chillies can be a superb sub right here (however it is a US factor, hoping it turns into a staple right here in Australia one in all lately!).
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Garlic – Can’t be versatile right here! 🙂
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Cheese – Positively not versatile right here! Properly, not versatile in regards to the inclusion of some type of melting cheese. I’ve opted for Colby – provides flavour, melts effectively, will get a pleasant little bit of golden color on the floor, not too greasy. Be happy to make use of any of selection. Should you use mozzarella, I’d counsel including a sprinkling of parmesan on high (as a result of mozzarella, whereas it melts superbly, doesn’t have a a lot flavour).
The Mexican spice combine
And right here’s what you want for the do-it-yourself Mexican spice combine. Some Mexican recipes I share have an extended checklist of spices. For me, that is in regards to the minimal you’ll be able to go with out the flavour lacking one thing. All staple spices! (You may substitute smoked paprika with plain).
It’s like chili cone carne – however quicker to make as a result of by ending it off within the oven with a beneficiant sprinkling of cheese, we are able to skip the range simmer.
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Sauté the onion, garlic and capsicum first. Use an ovenproof skillet. Pictured is my much-loved 26cm / 10.5″Lodge forged iron skillet (my important kitchenware checklist is right here!).
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Prepare dinner the meat, breaking it up as you go.
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Toast the spices with the meat. Good method to deliver out flavour in spices plus get higher flavour into beef mince / floor beef – FAST. 🙂
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Add beans and tomato passata, give it a great combine then deliver to a simmer.
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Prime with cheese then bake for quarter-hour simply to soften the cheese.
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Take away from oven and begin the agonising means of deciding how one can serve it! Tacos? Corn chip dunking? Burrito stuffing? ENCHILADAS? Nachos?? #FirstWorldProblems
Pictured in publish for serving in all of the above listed kinds are:
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Guacamole, and typically avocado sauce (primarily a clean, quicker model of guac)
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Pico de gallo (recent tomato salsa). Additionally this pureed tomato salsa can be nice.
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Bitter cream (sub yogurt)
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Recent coriander/cilantro
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Tortillas – small ones and bigger enchilada dimension ones (for making small burritos).
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Corn chips – for dunking
Different glorious choices contains:
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Mexican crimson rice, plain white rice (or brown, or cauliflower rice should you’re doing the low-carb factor). Rice in bowls then smother with the Mexican beef and beans.
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And….. eeer… I’m caught. Assist?
– Johnsat x
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 red onion , finely chopped
- 2 garlic cloves , finely minced
- 1 green capsicum / bell pepper , cut into 1cm / 1/2″ cubes (or other colour)
- 500g/ 1 lb beef mince (ground beef) (Note 1)
- 400g/ 14oz can red kidney beans or black beans , drained (or other beans)
- 1 cup tomato passata (Note 2)
- 1/3 cup pickled sliced jalapeño (Note 3)
- 1 1/2 cups Colby cheese , shredded (or other cheese, Note 4)
- 1 1/2 tsp cumin powder
- 1 1/2 tsp smoked paprika (sub normal paprika)
- 1 tsp garlic powder (sub onion powder)
- 1 tsp onion powder (sub garlic powder)
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper (sub black pepper)
- 1 tsp cooking/kosher salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200°C / 400°F (180°C fan).
- Sauté – Heat the olive oil in a cast-iron skillet over medium high heat (or other oven-proof pan). Cook onion, garlic and capsicum for 3 minutes.
- Cook beef & spices – Add beef and cook, breaking it up as you go, until you no longer see raw meat. Add spices, then cook for 1 minute.
- Beans & tomato – Add kidney beans and passata. Stir, then bring to a simmer.
- Cheese it! Scatter the jalapeño across the surface, top with cheese.
- Bake 15 minutes (no lid) then remove from the oven.
- Serve! Scoop into bowls and serve with corn chips or tortillas with your favourite Mexican fixings (guacamole or avocado sauce pico de gallo or restaurant style salsa, fresh coriander/coriander, sour cream). Dunk like nachos, make DIY burritos or tacos!
Notes
Servings – This will serve 5 to 6 people depending on how you serve it. As a burrito or taco stuffing, it will easily serve 6 if not 7 people, once you factor in the toppings. If served with corn chips for dunking, it will probably serve 5 (because corn chips is less bulk than tortillas).
1. Meat – Recipe will work great with chicken, turkey or pork. Actually,even lamb!
2. Passata – this is a thick smooth tomato puree, see here for more information. Substitute with crushed tomato or what’s called “tomato sauce” or “tomato puree” in the US (eg. Hunts).
3. Pickled jalapeno is terrific here for something a little tangy and a bit of spiciness. Feel free to omit.
4. Cheese – any good melting cheese can be used here, except if using mozzarella I’d add a handful of parmesan on top because mozzarella, while an excellent melting cheese, doesn’t actually have that much flavour (this recipe relies on cheese for extra flavour boost for a quick recipe).
Leftovers will keep for 3 days in the fridge or 3 months in the freezer.
Nutrition per serving, assuming 6 servings, beef and bean only (ie not toppings).
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