Healthy Taco Salad
A healthy fun dinner the whole family can enjoy.
Equipment
- Air Fryer
Ingredients
- Rice
- Pinto Beans
- Rajas De Poblano
- Cheese
- Tomato
- Lettuce
- Tortilla
Instructions
- Use an air-fryer and an oven safe bowl to make the edible tortilla bowl.
- Assemble ingredients into the edible tortilla bowl form bottom to top: rice, beans, filling, salsa, cheese, tomato, lettuce.
Notes
My frying method to make the edible bowl from the tortilla shell:
When I learned how to make this taco salad with the edible bowl, I observed the process happening through deep frying the tortilla in a standard frialator and shaping it with a spider (a large flat scooping utensil used for scooping stuff out of a frialator). Since I do not have a frialator and am not keen on deep frying my food due to the health disadvantages, I decided to try to use my small air fryer and an oven safe bowl for shaping. I found success with this. If you don’t have a small stand alone air fryer this can be done in the oven the same way!
*I had a little trouble getting the tortilla to stay in the optimal shape and not droop down or fold in on itself, so I used a bobby pin (yes, a hair pin!) to hold it in the desired shape.
*I heated up the tortilla to a point where it became soft and flexible so I could easily bend and fold it into the desired shape inside the bowl. Make sure to not heat it up too much or it will turn crispy and be liable tear when working with it!
When the tortilla bowl was lightly browned and holding shape, I removed it and started to build my taco salad, seen below!