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    Home / Recipes / Main Dishes / Beef Recipes

    Beef Tostadas with Homemade Guacamole

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    A plate with beef tostadas made with guacamole, shredded cheese, and sour cream. Text is Easy Beef Tostados with Homemade Guacamole - Add Salt & Serve logo
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    A plate with beef tostadas made with guacamole, shredded cheese, and sour cream. Text is Easy Beef Tostados with Homemade Guacamole - Add Salt & Serve logo

    Fresh guacamole and chipotle sour cream are the perfect tostada toppers for warm, taco-seasoned beef with red bell pepper.

    A plate with beef tostados made with guacamole, shredded cheese, and sour cream.

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    ⏲️ Time needed

    You can expect to spend 15-20 minutes making the guacamole and chipotle sour cream and about 10 minutes heating the beef topping. Assembling the tostadas takes just a minute or two, for a total time to the table of about 30 minutes.

    🥘 Ingredients

    Chipotle Sour Cream

    • chipotle sauce
    • sour cream

    Guacamole

    • avocados
    • onion
    • tomato
    • jalapeno
    • salt
    • lime
    • fresh cilantro

    Tostadas

    • cooked taco-seasoned ground beef
    • red bell pepper
    • oil
    • chili sauce
    • salt
    • pepper
    • tostada shells
    • lettuce
    • shredded Mexican cheese

    🌾 Adaptations for dietary restrictions

    Tostada shells are traditionally made from corn, so in theory, they should be gluten-free. If you want to be certain your shells are safe, they're quick and easy to make at home from corn tortillas.

    📋 Instructions

    Chipotle Sauce. Mix the sour cream and chipotle sauce together and chill.

    Guacamole. Do not make the guacamole in advance as it does not age well. Start it about 15 minutes before cooking the hot toppings so that it will be fresh (it can chill in the refrigerator while you heat the other ingredients).

    Cut each avocado in half lengthwise, then cut in half lengthwise again. With each cut, take the knife all the way to the pit and, with the avocado on the cutting board and the knife horizontal and parallel to the cutting board, rotate the avocado carefully while holding the knife in place. If the avocado is ripe, it should be fairly easy to cut through.

    Take the quarters apart and remove the pit by gently twisting with your fingers.

    Peel each section of avocado (again, if it is ripe the peel should come off easily). Add the remaining ingredients and mix thoroughly.  Adjust seasonings to taste and refrigerate until ready to use.

    Beef Topping. Sauté the red pepper over medium heat in oil until pepper is tender, then add the cooked, taco-seasoned ground beef. Stir in the chili sauce, salt, and pepper. When heated through, remove from heat and set aside.

    Just before serving, layer lettuce, taco meat mixture, guacamole, cheese, and chipotle sour cream on each tostada shell.

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    A plate with beef tostados made with guacamole, shredded cheese, and sour cream.

    Beef Tostadas with Homemade Guacamole

    Fresh guacamole and chipotle sour cream are the perfect tostada toppers for warm, taco-seasoned beef with red bell pepper.
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    Prep Time 25 mins
    Cook Time 5 mins
    Total Time 30 mins
    Course Main Dish
    Cuisine Gluten-free, Tex-Mex
    Servings 6 servings
    Calories 581

    Ingredients
      

    Chipotle Sour Cream

    • ½ cup sour cream
    • 2 tablespoon chipotle sauce

    Tostadas

    • 1 lb. taco seasoned ground beef, cooked
    • 1 red bell pepper, chopped
    • 1 Tbsp. oil
    • ½ cup chili sauce
    • ¼ teaspoon salt
    • ¼ teaspoon pepper
    • 6 tostada shells
    • ½ recipe homemade guacamole
    • 3 cups lettuce, shredded
    • 1 ½ cups Mexican cheese, shredded
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    Instructions

    Chipotle Sour Cream

    • In a small bowl, combine sour cream and chipotle sauce until thoroughly blended. Refrigerate until ready to use.

    Tostadas

    • Sauté the red pepper over medium heat in oil until red pepper is tender; add cooked, taco-seasoned ground beef.
    • Stir in chili sauce, salt, and pepper.
    • When heated through, remove from heat and set aside.
    • On each tostada shell, layer lettuce, taco meat mixture, guacamole, cheese, and chipotle sour cream.

    Notes

    Choosing avocados: For immediate use, avocados should be firm but have some give when you squeeze them gently in the palm of your hand. I usually buy the Hass variety, which turns darker as they ripen (other varieties may not darken with ripeness). The color of this variety in addition to the feel when you give them a gentle squeeze will help you determine the level of ripeness. If you end up with unripe fruit that you need to use, you can hasten ripening by putting them in a paper bag and rolling down the top. Leave them in the bag at room temperature until they ripen, checking them each day with a gentle squeeze. 

    Nutrition per serving

    Calories: 581 calCarbohydrates: 27 gProtein: 24 gFat: 43 gSodium: 1038 mgFiber: 8 gSugar: 6 g
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    Posted by Mary Ann on July 7, 2020; Updated on December 22, 2020Filed Under: Beef Recipes

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