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    Home » Recipes » Amish Main Dishes

    Amish Deep Dish Taco Squares

    Published: Oct 26, 2022 · Updated: Oct 26, 2022 by Kevin Williams | 6 Comments

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    I have so many recipes from so many different Amish cooks stored in my office that I could post them for decades and not run out.  Some of them - many of them - are just sitting sealed in n a large green plastic tote.  So I thought it'd be fun to literally just stick my hand in there, rummage around, pull out an Amish recipe and post the first one I grabbed.

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    • 🌮 Amish Deep Dish Taco Squares
    • 📋 Instructions
    • 🌯 More Amish Tex-Mex Recipes
    • 🖨️ Full Recipe

    Amish Deep Dish Taco Squares

     Just so happens what I grabbed sounds like a not-very-Amish recipe but don't be fooled.   I have seen Deep Dish Taco Squares in a number of Amish cookbooks and seen the recipe from Indiana to Pennsylvania.  This is a popular recipe among Amish cooks who want the taste of Tex Mex merged with the more traditional Amish hearty "dinner pie" type recipe.  Deep Dish Taco Squares fits the bill!  This version comes to us from a Katie Lehman in LaGrange County, Indiana

    Amish Deep Dish Taco Squares

    The ingredients in this are very basic. And you can experiment by adding things like ground turkey in with ground beef. Make sure you use lean meat. If you want something with a bit more heat than taco seasoning, you diced some jalapenos to add into this. Some chopped green pepper would go well too. There is a lot you can do with this! Even though there is pizza sauce in this, I think some diced tomato might go well. You can use a Mexican cheese mix with this, but I think shredded cheddar cheese is well good in this recipe.

    This is the onion-egg-cheese and mayo mix! Stir until well combined. Choose a small or medium bowl to mix. A sprinkling of garlic powder, cumin, oregano, paprika, or chili powder might go well here. Ah, this is one of my favorite Amish meets Mexican meals! The crust on this is amazing. A great array of flavors!

    Amish Deep Dish Taco Squares are hearty and delicious! It's like a comfort food casserole. It is packed with calories.

    🌮 Amish Deep Dish Taco Squares

    • 1 pound hamburger
    • 1 cup sour cream
    • 2 /3 cup mayonnaise
    • 2 tablespoon chopped onion
    • 2 cup Bisquick
    • ½ cup cold water
    • taco seasoning or pizza sauce
    • 1 cup shredded cheese

    📋 Instructions

    1. Heat oven to 375.
    2. Brown hamburger and drain.
    3. Mix in sour cream, mayo, cheese and onions.
    4. Set aside.
    5. Mix Bisquick and water until soft dough forms.
    6. Press into a 9 X 13 cake pan. Press dough up the sides.
    7. Layer beef on dough.
    8. Spoon sour cream mixture on top.
    9. Bake 30 minutes.

    🌯 More Amish Tex-Mex Recipes

    Delicious Burritos - Give these a try!

    Breakfast Burritos - Amazing!
    Incredible Taco Rice - So good!

    Taco Salad - Delicious!

    🖨️ Full Recipe

    Amish Deep Dish Taco Squares

    Amish Deep Dish Taco Squares

    a delicious twist on Tex-Mex
    3 from 1 vote
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    Course Main Course
    Cuisine American, Amish

    Ingredients
      

    • 1 pound hamburger
    • 1 cup sour cream
    • 2 /3 cup mayonnaise
    • 2 tablespoon chopped onion
    • 2 cup Bisquick
    • ½ cup cold water
    • taco seasoning or pizza sauce
    • 1 cup shredded cheese

    Instructions
     

    • Heat oven to 375.
    • Brown hamburger and drain.
    • Mix in sour cream, mayo, cheese and onions.
    • Set aside.
    • Mix Bisquick and water until soft dough forms.
    • Press into a 9 X 13 cake pan
    • . Press dough up the sides.
    • Layer beef on dough.
    • Spoon sour cream mixture on top.
    • Bake 30 minutes.
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    About Kevin Williams

    Hi, my name is Kevin Williams and I am owner of Oasis Newsfeatures and editor of The Amish Cook newspaper column.

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    Comments

    1. Dorothy

      May 15, 2015 at 8:02 pm

      Sounds and looks delicious, but where does the taco seasoning or pizza sauce go?
      And it looks as if the sour cream etc gets mixed into the ground beef, but it's separate from the beef in the instructions.

      I'm making this tomorrow. I think I'll add the taco seasoning to the beef and keep the sour cream mixture separate to go on top.

      Reply
    2. D. Smith

      October 26, 2022 at 1:29 pm

      Kevin, Taco John's has been around since the late 1960's. Taco Bell gained in popularity in the mid 1980's. Taco Bell used to have something called a taco-lite (it had a very thin crunchy taco shell and a bunch of us girls from work used to go there for lunch or have 1 person go and bring back about 20 of them at a time! Wish they still had those.

      I do not use bisquick, never have. Ewwww.

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      • Kevin Williams

        October 28, 2022 at 5:36 pm

        Interesting about Taco John's, I think there was one by my brother's college in Bloomington, Indiana in the late 1980s, so, yeah, I guess they have been around, but not as prolific as Taco Bell

        Reply
    3. christy mckenney

      October 27, 2022 at 3:31 pm

      is there an alternative to bisque my family does not like the taste of it?

      Reply
    4. christy mckenney

      October 27, 2022 at 3:32 pm

      3 stars
      Is there an alternative to bisque my family does not like the taste of it.?

      Reply
      • Cindy Monnier

        October 28, 2022 at 12:34 pm

        Try a pack of crescent roll dough

        Reply

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