Hard shell tacos with minced meat

Name: Hard shell tacos with minced meat
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 persons
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 500 gram minced meat; 12 hard shell tacos; 1 recipe for taco seasoning; 1.5 bell pepper; 3 tomatoes; 1/2 cucumber; 1/4th ice berg lettuce; 1 recipe for taco sauce; Optional: grated cheese

Hungry and in a hurry? These hard shell tacos with minced meat are done in less than 25 minutes, combine with home-made seasoning and sauce!

Hard shell tacos with minced meat ingredients

Recipe hard shell tacos with minced meat

Made by Véronique

Published at 2017-04-22, this recipe is for 4 persons and takes 25 minutes.

Founder of Ohmydish (since 2014), she prefers to spend all day in the kitchen. Once working in the hospitality industry as an independent chef, she loves helping you gain confidence in the kitchen. With her easy-to-follow recipes, handy tips, and cooking knowledge, you'll make the most delicious dishes yourself! The recipes are accessible to everyone, from beginners to advanced home cooks.

Updated at: 2025-07-19

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Preparation time

10 minutes

Time cooking

15 minutes

Total time

25 minutes

Preparation – 10 minutes

Start by making the taco sauce and taco seasoning. Wash the vegetables. Renive seeds from the bell peppers, then finely dice. Remove the hard centre from the tomatoes and dice them too.

Chop the cucumber into thin slices and the iceberg lettuce into long and thin strips.

Finishing up the hard shell tacos with minced meat – 15 minutes

Preheat the oven to a temperature of 200 degrees celsius or 390 degrees fahrenheit to heat up the hard shell tacos. It's best to let the taco shells sit on top of each other (do remove the plastic from the package!).

If separated, the hard taco shells will lose some of their shapes. Heat up sunflower oil or any other kind of neutral oil in the large skillet and add the minced meat.

Cook for a few minutes, or until it starts to brown. Add in diced bell pepper, season with taco seasoning and cook for a few minutes longer.

Divide ice berg lettuce, minced meat, cucumber slices, tomato and optionally grated cheese over each hard shell taco. Finish by adding taco sauce to liking. Enjoy your meal!