PIN Green Chile Chicken Tacos to try them later!

These Green Chile Chicken Tacos are going to be perfect for Cinco de Mayo, and Kara and I really enjoyed this when we worked on the recipe! We loved the spicy green chile chicken, the slightly-spicy slaw with chopped Poblano peppers, and the squeeze of lime we added at the table. And when Kara took leftovers home, her family devoured the tacos too.

And I’m happy to have both an Instant Pot and a Slow Cooker version of this recipe. The tacos were originally inspired by my love of Hatch Green Chile Enchilada Sauce, something I’ve used often since I first tried it. Any recipe with that sauce is going to be something I’ll enjoy! And recently I discovered that my original nutrition calculator sometimes was not accurate for low-carb tortillas, and I’m happy to say these tacos are even lower in carbs than I thought, see more below about that.

Either version of Green Chile Chicken Tacos will be tasty, and even the slow cooker method only takes a little over three hours to cook. So this is pretty easy for a chicken taco dinner no matter which method you choose! I hope you enjoy trying it.

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PIN Ground Beef Tacos to make them later!

When I was a kid I loved my mom’s tacos. Mom would fry corn tortillas to make shells. Then she folded them over to be filled with spicy taco meat, grated cheese, lettuce, hot sauce, and sometimes tomatoes. When we ate mom’s tacos, we had to hold them over a plate because so much grease would drip out!

Ground Beef Tacos with Tomato-Avocado Salsa is a different version of ground beef tacos! These days I make tacos into a low-carb meal by using low-carb flour tortillas. I season the ground beef with my homemade taco seasoning and serve the tacos with a tomato-avocado salsa (with cucumber!)

The tacos you see here are an updated version of Spicy Ground Beef and Black Beans Tacos I first made years ago! But these days a lot of my readers don’t want beans in their taco meat. (If you do want the black beans, follow that link and see the original recipe.)

And Cinco de Mayo is less than two weeks away, and these tacos would be a perfect dinner for that! You can make the ground beef tacos even if you don’t have every ingredient. We doubled the meat, so  you can probably have tacos for dinner more than once. And keep reading to find out about the frozen avocado that we used in the salsa for these tacos!

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PIN the Cottage Cheese Taco Bowl to try it later!

This Cottage Cheese Taco Bowl is my version of  a viral recipe that had sweet potatoes and hot honey, and I knew those ingredients wouldn’t be a hit with many of my readers. So I experimented with Kara to make a cottage cheese bowl with taco ingredients that was low in carbs!

And we loved the bowl meal we came up with that has perfectly-seasoned taco meat, cottage cheese, diced avocado, and diced cherry tomatoes! Kara and I both liked this plain, but it kicked up the flavor even more when we drizzled it with some kind of sauce that goes well with tacos. So in this post I’m recommending a few options for sauce, and all of them only add a few carbs if you use a moderate amount.

And whether you drizzle with sauce or eat it as you see it in the photos, this cottage cheese bowl meal is low in carbs, high in protein, and gluten-free. And you can make the meat for Weekend Food Prep and then enjoy this bowl meal a few times during the week! I hope you try it soon.

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PIN the recipe for Slow Cooker Taco Meat to make some later!

This tasty Slow Cooker Taco Meat that cooks unattended without pre-browning the meat is an idea I loved the minute I saw it. When I taught school I’d take Taco Salad for lunch several times a week. Now I’m still a huge taco salad fan, even though I have more lunch options. And for years I’ve loved this method of cooking ground beef to use for tacos or taco salad, and this ground beef taco meat is something you’ll always find in my freezer!

This recipe is also perfect when you want to make tacos for a crowd. Make a batch of taco meat for perfect game-day food! Then keep the meat warm in the slow cooker and let everyone assemble their tacos with the ingredients they prefer.

If you don’t want to use a slow cooker, I’m also a big fan of taco meat made in the Instant Pot. That’s another option for making easy perfect taco meat. No matter which method you prefer, I hope you try my recipe and make some tacos soon!

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Pin the Salmon Tacos Recipe to make them later!

This Salmon Tacos Recipe (with Mexican Slaw) happened after a couple of things aligned to inspire the recipe. First, I had been thinking how great Mr. Tortilla 2 Net Carb Multigrain Tortillas would be for tacos. Second, I had two extra large salmon fillets thawed out in the fridge with no idea for what to make. And third, I happened to have all the ingredients for Spicy Mexican Slaw, which I think is so great for fish tacos.

After I had the idea of combining these ingredients, I was pretty sure the tacos would be amazing, and when I made them with Kara to take the photos we absolutely loved them. We used the Air Fryer to cook the salmon in six minutes, which made salmon tacos so quick and easy for a week-night meal. But I’ll give links to other cooking methods for the salmon if you don’t have an Air Fryer.

And no matter what method you use, this new salmon tacos recipe will be a quick and easy dinner. I’m confident everyone who likes salmon will love this recipe, and If you like fish tacos at all I hope you’ll try it soon!

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PIN the Chicken Lettuce Wrap Tacos to try them later!

These Spicy Shredded Chicken Lettuce Wrap Tacos are a recipe that every Instant Pot or slow cooker fan will appreciate when it’s hot outside, because this is a perfect idea for a summer dinner! And once you’ve made the spicy shredded chicken there are endless ways to use it if you don’t want lettuce wraps.

When I first made this recipe I experimented with the cooking sauce to get just the right spicy flavor, and then we made the chicken lettuce wrap tacos with an amazing avocado salsa that was so tasty! But you could also use the shredded chicken with my favorite low-carb tortillas to make regular tacos, chicken tostadas, or burritos.

And whether you make this spicy shredded chicken into chicken lettuce wrap tacos or some other variation of tacos, I hope you don’t skip the avocado salsa, which was the perfect thing to go with the spicy meat. I hope you enjoy this recipe if you need something to help you stay cool!

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PIN the Green Chile Pork bowl to make it later.

This tasty Green Chile Pork Taco Bowl is a perfect dish to make in the Instant Pot, or use instructions from Slow Cooker Pulled Pork and make it in a slow cooker if you prefer! But please make these taco bowls if you like the sound of slightly-spicy green chile pork served over cauliflower rice for a tasty low-carb meal!

We used the inexpensive pork sirloin roasts from Costco, and that worked worked perfectly. And yes, you can make the green chile pork bowl with frozen cauliflower rice! One thing that bumped up the flavor for this recipe was adding finely diced Poblano chile pepper to my Easy Cauliflower Rice, but if you don’t have that, the recipe will still be great.

And this perfect Cinco de Mayo dinner is a meal where every family member can assemble the taco bowl the way they prefer. Or some people can eat the green chile pork inside tortillas as a taco. I hope you will try this for dinner soon!

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PIN the Beef and Chorizo Tacos to make them later!

Beef and Chorizo Tacos are a new recipe that’s another idea that came from my friend Donna, and after she told me about the combination of beef and Chorizo as a taco filling I had to try it! For my recipe we added chopped Poblano pepper, white onion, minced garlic, and Herdez Salsa Verde to the meat, made a delicious Pico de Gallo to serve as a topping on the tacos, and of course we made our tacos with low-carb tortillas.

And Kara and I loved this recipe when we were testing it. We served the tacos with extra Pico de Gallo to add at the table, and of course I ate mine with an extra squeeze of lime, which I really recommend. If you’re looking for something new to try for Cinco de Mayo, maybe this will be just the thing for your family; I hope you try it!

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PIN the Ground Turkey Tacos recipe to make tacos later!

This recipe for Ground Turkey Tacos served with with Avocado Salsa is one of my favorite taco recipes! And of course that’s partly because I love the avocado salsa that’s the perfect finishing touch. And when the tacos are made with my favorite low-carb tortillas and this is a great low-carb taco recipe!

And if anyone is thinking that ground turkey might be a bit boring, I promise you there is nothing remotely boring about the perfectly-seasoned green chile turkey in this recipe. In fact, if you try it, this might become one of your favorite recipes for tacos!

If you’re just not a ground turkey fan, just make these delicious green chile tacos with ground beef. You can certainly add other toppings like cheese, sour cream, lettuce, or salsa if you wish. But please try the tasty turkey tacos the next time you need a quick dinner idea!

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PIN the Spaghetti Squash Taco Bowls to try it later!

Spaghetti Squash Taco Bowls might be the recipe that gets you to try spaghetti squash if you haven’t discovered how delicious it can be. I’m definitely a fan of this interesting winter squash when it’s used in a creative recipe, and I’m reminding you about this fun way to use spaghetti squash for my Friday Favorites pick this week!

I know some people think of spaghetti squash as just a low-carb substitute for pasta, but personally I put it in a class all its own, and I’ve enjoyed it in lasagna casserole, sauteed with vegetables, in a gratin with chard, and in a twice-baked casserole with pesto, to name just a few.

And this taco bowl meal with a base of spaghetti squash is one of my favorite spaghetti squash recipes on the blog. I hope you’ll pick up some spaghetti squash and give it this recipe a try!

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