# Cheesy Taco Potato Skillet

A skillet dish featuring seasoned potatoes and ground beef, topped with melted cheddar cheese, queso, sour cream, and cilantro.

- Cuisine: Mexican
- Category: Soup
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 5 small/medium potatoes
- olive oil
- salt
- pepper
- garlic powder
- paprika
- 1 lb ground beef
- 0.5 tsp salt
- 0.5 tsp pepper
- 0.25 tsp cayenne
- 2 tsp chili powder
- 1 tsp cumin
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp dried cilantro
- 1 tbsp minced garlic
- shredded cheddar cheese
- 1.5 cups white Queso
- sour cream
- cilantro

## Instructions

1. Peel, wash, and cut potatoes into cubes.
2. Toss potatoes with olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic powder, and paprika.
3. Cook potatoes in the air fryer at 400 degrees for about 20-25 minutes, shaking them around at least a couple times while they cook.
4. Heat a skillet over medium high heat.
5. Add the ground beef to the skillet and cook until browned.
6. Drain any extra grease from the ground beef.
7. Season ground beef with salt, cayenne, chili powder, cumin, paprika, dried cilantro, and black pepper.
8. Add minced garlic to the ground beef and stir well.
9. Once the potatoes and ground beef are cooked, combine them together in the skillet.
10. Top the mixture with shredded cheddar cheese.
11. Put the skillet in the oven at 400 degrees F to melt the cheese.
12. Pour warmed up Queso over the dish.
13. Top with sour cream and cilantro.

## Equipment

- air fryer
- skillet
- oven

## Tips

- This is also good wrapped up in tortillas as burritos!

## Source

- Original video: https://www.instagram.com/p/DSKpvl5kUhF/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/1a6af1b0-ed7b-48c8-8d5e-893f7b50bd1d
- Extracted: 2025-12-17

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