Skillet Taco Pie

Well, hello! Here's a recipe I've been meaning to work on for a while now and today was the day. I found this pin on Pinterest about a month ago and I had forgotten about it. Admit it, you know we all go through Pinterest with the intention of totally gonna nail it and either a) let it get lost in the deep, dark, depths of your "BEST NOMs" board or b) this:

Image courtesy: http://craftfail.com

So I hopped on the Pinterest train about a month ago (personal account, not The Cavegirl Dish) and this Taco Pie was one of the first pins that made it on my Cavegirl Dish Project board. And alas, here we are today.

This dish was easy to make through the course of the day while I could get 5 minutes here and there. But of course, you can do it all at once.


Paleo Skillet Taco Pie
FOR THE CRUST
1 cup almond flour
1 large egg
dash sea salt
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper powder
1/4 tsp olive oil
1 tsp coconut oil



Preheat oven to 350º.

Coat cast iron or nonstick oven-safe skillet with coconut oil.

In a bowl, combine remaning ingredients. Let it come together and knead into a dough ball.

Set dough in center of skillet. Using hands evenly spread dough outward toward the edges until a lip forms along the sides. You may want to wet your hands or use a little oil on fingers to keep the dough from sticking.

Bake in oven for 10 minutes.

FOR THE FILLING
2 lbs grass-fed ground beef
2 tbsp taco seasoning (see below for recipe)
2 eggs

In a large pan, cook ground beef with taco seasoning until browned. Remove from pan and let cool.

In a separate bowl, combine cooled beef and egg. Pour into "tortilla" crust in the cast iron skillet and pat down to create an even layer. 

Place in 350º oven and bake for 20 minutes. 

Top with taco "condiments," slice and serve!

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I chose shredded lettuce, diced tomatoes, guacamole that I had thawed a few days ago (so nice to have this pre-made and frozen!) and onions and peppers fried in the ground beef grease. I fried them while the filling was baking then added them to the pie for the last 10 minutes of the baking process. 

Admittedly, this is a messy dish to eat. It came out of the skillet nicely, but once we dug into it, it was a taco esplosion on our plates. This dish is probably more for the novelty of it being a savory pie, but it was delicious nonetheless. 

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Taco Seasoning (I was lucky I had all this stuff - I didn't have any prepared taco seasoning!)
1 tablespoon chili powder

1/4 teaspoon garlic powder

1/4 teaspoon onion powder

1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes

1/4 teaspoon dried oregano

1/2 teaspoon paprika

1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin

1 teaspoon sea salt

1 teaspoon black pepper

Easy peasy. Also, here's an obligatory/gratuitous pic of the cavebaby with his new paleo teething toy.