This delicious and nutritious ground beef and sweet potato skillet meal is perfect for busy weeknights. With only one pan to clean up, it’s a quick and easy dinner option the whole family will love!
Ingredients for Taco Ground Beef and Sweet Potato Skillet
I am always looking for quick dinner recipes that have lean protein and complex carbohydrates so that everyone is fully satisfied and energized. It has quickly become a regular on our dinner rotation. Here is everything you’ll need:
- Olive Oil
- Lean Ground Beef
- Yellow Onion
- Taco Seasoning
- Cornstarch
- Garlic
- Sweet Potatoes
- Kosher Salt
- Ground Black Pepper
- Fire Roasted Diced Tomatoes
- Diced Green Chiles
- Water
- Lime
- Mexican Cheese Shreds
- Cilantro
The measurements for each ingredient can be found in the recipe card at the end of the post.
How to Make Taco Ground Beef and Sweet Potato Skillet
This ground beef recipe is made all in one pan, and it’s so easy! Here are the steps:
- Brown the Ground Beef: Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium high heat and then add the ground beef and onion. Cook until the meat is mostly browned and the onion is tender.
- Season the Meat: Add half of the taco seasoning and cornstarch. Use a meat chopper to break up the beef and use a wooden spoon to stir. When the beef is almost completely cooked, add the garlic and cook for another minute. Then remove the beef and onions to a plate.
- Cook the Sweet Potatoes: Add a little more oil to the skillet and add the diced sweet potatoes. Season with the remaining taco seasoning and some salt and pepper. Cook until they start to brown, stirring occasionally for about 10 minutes.
- Combine: Add the ground beef and onions to the skillet, then add the fire roasted tomatoes, green chiles, water and lime juice and stir everything together. Cover the pan with a lid and let everything simmer for 10 minutes or until the sweet potatoes are fork tender.
- Add the Toppings: Top with the shredded cheese. Add the lid back for a minute so the cheese melts. Then add the cilantro.
The recipe card below contains all the instructions in full detail so keep scrolling to see everything in one place.
What to Serve with Taco Sweet Potato Skillet
This sweet potato hash is really an all-in-one type of dish if you want to keep dinner simple. If you want to add a side dish
Nothing is better than a large skillet piled high with saucy meat, flour tortillas, and gooey cheese. This one-skillet ground beef enchilada casserole is perfect for family dinner!
Easy Ground Beef Enchilada Casserole
Stop the bus. Hold the phone. Wait right there, missy. I’m about to introduce you to your new favorite family dinner recipe and the best part is, I froze it and it totally worked so it’s also a freezer meal.
For a little while, Cade lived in Arizona where there’s a lot of Mexican-inspired foods, so I thought for sure he’d have some good recipes or a love of Mexican food when we got married, but he didn’t really. I mean, he loved to eat Mexican but he was more drawn to southern or Italian recipes.
The longer we’ve been married the more he has been pulled back over to Mexican food and this one-skillet ground beef enchilada casserole is for sure one of his new favorites.
Cooking with Cast Iron
Our good friend from Country Cleaver wrote a new cookbook called, Cast Iron Gourmet, and if you haven’t gotten it yet, you pretty much should. There’s a strawberry chocolate panini that is calling my name.
Oh!! And the pesto-and-mozzarella-stuffed dinner rolls look like melty cheese, nuggets of awesomeness.
There’s everything from breakfast and sides to main dishes and desserts and I’m not kidding, I suddenly want to buy every cast iron skillet in every size and color.
If you haven’t cooked with cast iron before, well first of all you should stop reading this and buy our favorite Lodge Cast Iron skillet off of Amazon and get on that because the flavor and even cooking will sell you for life. But also, Megan covers everything you’ll need to know about it so you’ll never have any questions about what you’re doing.
Blast, I got off subject. Let’s chat more about this ground beef enchilada casserole, shall we?
Ground Beef Enchilada Casserole Ingredients
This Mexican casserole with tortillas is a cinch to make and requires very few ingredients. Here’s what all we used in this ground beef enchilada casserole recipe:
- Ground Beef: We like to get 80/20 or 85/15 for maximum flavor.
- Taco Seasoning: Make your own or grab your favorite store brand.
- Yellow Onion: adds flavor and texture
- Cremini Mushrooms: adds flavor
- Red Enchilada Sauce: Las Palmas is
This isn’t your normal one skillet recipe. This honey mustard bacon chicken skillet is healthier for a few reasons but still totally craveable!
Serve up this bold honey mustard chicken recipe with a loaf of crusty artisan bread and a bright, fresh tomato cucumber salad, and you have a winning dinner the whole family will love!
A while back, we made honey mustard bacon brats and let me tell you, they are delicious. Like major good. It’s hard to want a brat any other way now. But as Cade and I were cleaning up dinner he said, “That sauce tastes so good I want to eat it on everything!” and as he snagged one last piece of saucy bacon from the pan to gobble it down before washing the skillet, I had the idea.
This really would be good on anything. Like really. At first I was really going to go to town and make a crunchy chicken but Cade and I are trying really hard to make good eating choices during the week, which is difficult today as I just photographed the best, oh my goodness amazing pumpkin cookies ever and I can hear them calling my name from the kitchen, “Carrian, you know you could have just half a cookie and you’d feel so happy…”
Ingredients for Honey Mustard Bacon Chicken Skillet
Ok, I digress…back to this tasty one skillet chicken recipe! Here are the ingredients you will need:
- Chicken Thighs: You can use boneless chicken or use bone-in. If you use bone-in chicken, it will just need a little longer to cook through.
- NOTE: Chicken breasts (boneless, skinless) also work great with this recipe if you want a more lean dinner.
- Water: helps with the base of the honey mustard sauce
- Honey: adds flavor and natural sweetness
- Dijon Mustard: any brand works great or you could go with spicy brown mustard too if you want a little kick
- Cilantro: adds a bright pop of freshness
- Bacon: because you never need a reason for bacon
- Olive Oil: helps finish off the sauce and sauteing
- Garlic: adds flavor
The measurements for each ingredient can be found in the recipe card at the end of the post.