Taco Casserole

Source: Lauren's Kitchen

Found this in my google reader. Another taco dish, but H and I really like tacos. This dish certainly didn't disappoint.

Ingredients

• 16 oz. taco sauce (used 8 oz)
  
• 12 ounce can buttermilk biscuits (used 16 oz can)
  
• 4-6 ounces shredded cheddar cheese (used 8 oz)
  
• 4-6 ounces shredded mozzarella cheese (used 8 oz)
• 1 can sliced olives, drained (omitted)
  
• 1 pound ground beef
  
• 1 teaspoon chili powder
• 1 teaspoon cumin
• 1/4 cup red bell pepper, chopped (used all green)
  
• 1/4 cup green bell pepper, chopped (used 2 full peppers)
• 1/2 medium onion, chopped
  
• 8 ounces mushrooms, sliced (omitted)
  
• 1 jar salsa

Preparation

• Preheat oven to 400F.
  
• Lightly grease a 13x9 inch baking dish.
  
• Spread taco sauce evenly over bottom of dish.
• Separate dough into 10 biscuits. Cut each biscuit into 4 pieces.
  
• Place biscuit pieces in hot sauce, turn to coat.
  
• Sprinkle biscuits with half of the cheese and the olives.
  
• Bake for 15-18 minutes.
• In a large skillet, combine ground beef, peppers, mushrooms, cumin and chili powder.
  
• Cook until ground beef is cooked through and add the jar of salsa.
• Sprinkle the ground beef mixture over the baked biscuit mixture.
  
• Top with the remaining cheese.
  
• Bake an additional 5-7 minutes, until cheese is melted.

Next Time- I really liked this. We used medium salsa and taco sauce and that gave quite a kick, so maybe use mild in one of those. No other changes need to be made.