Cool Ranch taco salad from Cravings - Hungry for More (page 58) by Chrissy Teigen

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  • mandycbeck on March 04, 2026

    I thought this was good but not mind blowing. I think chips on a salad would be hard to do badly. I don’t love ketchup so I opted to make my own ranch style dressing. I also added cheese, because it felt weird not to!

  • Clairehg on February 28, 2026

    Made the ground beef mixture for tostadas. Better than packaged taco seasoning.

  • EatnCookFood on January 04, 2026

    This has a lot of steps so it doesn’t get made as often as it should but the finished product is SO good!

  • Eljabo on October 14, 2024

    So good! Usually, I'm lazy but I made the dressing and the spice mix. Loved them both. Great combination of flavors. I left out the tomatoes because my family hates them. I also left out the avocado because I didn't have one that was ripe enough. I thought I'd miss the cheese but I totally didn't.

  • craftycarmen on February 01, 2024

    Loved this! Been craving the taco salad that Togo’s no longer sells and this hit the spot. I was debating between using cool ranch or regular tortilla chips. I decided on the cool ranch and that was 100% the right decision as it adds an extra dimension of flavor.

  • Hansgee on November 15, 2022

    One of my all-time favorite CT recipes. I love taco salad and this one is amazing. The bean/beef mix is well seasoned and tasty, I love the dressing recipe (I don’t halve the recipe for this reason), and the charred corn and raw red onion top it all off. Cool ranch Doritos are the chip of my childhood and I’m so glad they’re included in this. This is a substantial salad - even cozy/hearty enough for winter months.

  • averythingcooks on January 23, 2022

    Well….this has been on the “to make list” forever and as I had iceberg lettuce to use up, today was the day. And it was delicious! I cut everything in 1/2 for the 2 of us, eyeballing the amt of lettuce. The dressing is really good (especially with a little extra cayenne), the taco meat mixture was great and the cool ranch chips made for perfect salad crunchies. And yes, I did add some shredded cheese and some sliced red & yellow peppers and yes, the verdict was “make that again for sure”!

  • jenmacgregor18 on July 15, 2021

    Ok, so we couldn't do without cheese & I added it. Also, it was late & I was tired, so I subbed ranch dressing I already had made for the dressing & sour cream. It was very good. We really enjoyed it. This works well with Tostitos salsa verde chips too. Next time, though, I want to try Chrissy's dressing.

  • kari500 on December 13, 2019

    I liked but didn’t love this. The dressing was too sweet and I missed the cheese.

  • hirsheys on March 21, 2019

    I really liked this, too! I agree that this is a very good beef taco mixture and the dressing was yummy! I'm excited to eat the leftovers for lunch tomorrow. (I also reduced the cayenne - mine is very spicy...)

  • BethNH on February 28, 2019

    I'm almost embarrassed to admit how much we enjoyed this. I used canned corn which charred nicely in the skillet. The taco spice had a really nice kick to it and tasted so much better than the stuff in a package and better than the homemade taco mix I've made in the past. Half a recipe of dressing is definitely more than enough. The dressing was so good that I'd make it on it's own just to have with a tossed salad. Cool Ranch Doritos were perfect alongside. My husband, who always appreciates my cooking, immediately said he wanted me to make this again.

  • Zosia on November 02, 2018

    So easy and so good. My family and I have never had a taco salad and we loved this. I made half the dressing and minor ingredient substitutions (cherry tomatoes for beefsteak, green onions for red etc) but otherwise followed the recipe.

  • southerncooker on September 30, 2018

    This one has an unusual dressing for a taco salad and doesn't call for cheese. It uses Cool Ranch Doritos hence the name. Daughter and I love cheese and I've never had a taco that didn't contain cheese but it really works without the cheese and other ingredients. I used frozen corn and charred in pan per instructions in book. My daughter said she'd eat this with me again anytime I want to make it.

  • anya_sf on September 27, 2018

    Definitely spend 30 seconds making the dressing rather than buying sickly-sweet bottled Catalina. Half the dressing was enough for the salad. I reduced the cayenne in this and the taco seasoning since my son doesn't like too much spice. Used frozen corn, which charred nicely in the skillet. Substituted ground turkey for beef. This may be the first time I've purchased Cool Ranch Doritos, but they definitely were perfect in this salad. I thought I'd miss the cheese, but didn't. My family loved this so much that I'm ashamed to say 3 of us devoured the whole thing.

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