Shredded Pork Taco Bowl

This Shredded Pork Taco Bowl is an easy dinner recipe that takes a little help from the store! Dinner is on the table in just 15 minutes!

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An Easy Recipe For Taco Night!

There is nothing I like more than making tacos for dinner – or anything even related to tacos for dinner. It’s always a huge hit in our house and there are empty plates all around.

In this case, we’re going to be seeing empty bowls because we’re making some taco bowls up tonight.

Taco bowls are such a fun dinner to make because you can customize the ingredients for each bowl. Some might like beans, others not – everyone seems to love avocados in our house and of course everyone wants the cheese.

For our taco bowls tonight we’re swapping out the shells with a quick Mexican rice as a base and then we’re going to load it up with all the toppings we can think of. Sometimes it’s all the toppings that get you right? It seems like a quick dinner but then it’s getting all the toppings together that gets hectic…on top of making whatever kind of meat you’re using for your tacos.

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Take A Little Help From The Store, Buy A Store Bought Protein

I mean it doesn’t get much easier than this. HORMEL® Taco Meats come in a few different varieties, Shredded Pork, Shredded Beef, Shredded Chicken and Beef Crumbles. So pretty much any taco-related meal can be made with one of these Taco Meat flavors. The best part? They come already cooked and already perfectly seasoned. So all you have to do is heat it up and start assembling your taco bowls…

And since HORMEL® Taco Meats are 100% natural, you don’t have to keep these Shredded Pork Taco Bowls to a once in a while thing – you can feel good about serving this dinner up as many times as you want to.

I chose to heat up our shredded pork for about 5 minutes in the oven, but you could use the stove top too or even throw it in the microwave.

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Next I made up a quick Mexican flavored rice to be the base of my taco bowls. Just add onion, garlic, tomato sauce and a few cups of cooked rice in a large skillet and in about 10 minutes you’ve got some crazy good rice to hold all your toppings.

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Pile on the shredded pork and customize your taco bowl to your own liking. A squeeze of fresh lime and you’re all set – the more toppings the better if you ask me!

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Shredded Pork Taco Bowl

  • Author: Dan
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 15 minutes
  • Total Time: 25 minutes
  • Yield: 4 servings 1x

This taco bowl takes a little help from the store to make getting dinner on the table a breeze!

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Ingredients

For the Rice:

(Or Use Our Spanish Rice Recipe)

  • 1 tablespoon canola oil
  • 4 cups cooked white rice
  • 1/2 cup diced onion
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1/2 cup tomato sauce
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon fresh black pepper
  • 1 teaspoon cumin

For the toppings

  • diced tomatoes
  • grated Cheddar cheese
  • avocados
  • red onion
  • cilantro
  • black beans
  • fresh limes

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees.
  2. Heat a large skillet over medium heat and add the oil. Add the onion and garlic to the skillet and cook for 2-3 minutes until softened.
  3. Add the cooked rice along with the tomato sauce, salt, pepper and cumin and stir to combine.
  4. Cook for 5 minutes, turn off the heat and cover to keep warm.
  5. Place the shredded pork on a baking sheet and bake for 5 minutes just until warmed through.
  6. Assemble the taco bowls by placing a large portion of rice in the bottom of the bowl and top with the about a half cup of the shredded pork.
  7. Top with all the toppings that you like and a fresh squeeze of lime on top.
  • Category: Dinner
  • Method: Stove Top
  • Cuisine: American / Tex-Mex
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