Easy Taco Salad Potluck Idea

Want an easy potluck idea where you and your guests share the ingredients and prepare one meal? Taco salad is a crowd-friendly meal that can be put together in no time. With all the different ingredients coming in with guests, no one person must handle a large expense. Furthermore, taco salad is a comfort food that almost everyone loves. Here's how to throw a taco salad potluck that's easy on time, is convenient, and makes a great indoor or outdoor meal.

Taco Salad: Guests Contribute Ingredients

Almost everyone knows what goes into a standard taco. That's what goes into a taco salad. As host, you will need to prepare the taco meat, but your guests will bring the rest of the ingredients. Those ingredients include: chopped onions, chopped lettuce, chopped cilantro, diced tomatoes, sliced black olives, sliced marinated jalapeño, sour cream, guacamole, picante sauce, salsa, taco sauce, green chilies, black beans, shredded cheese, and taco chips.

To prepare the salad, begin with lettuce on the plate, then the taco meat, then all the rest of the fixings and sauces. Taco chips go on top. Servers can serve a line of guests or guests can self-serve. Having an assortment of ingredients allows everyone to put together a meal that pleases.

Taco Salad Potluck: It's a Convenient Meal

Imagine feeding a crowd this meal. All you need to do is to keep the hot foods hot and the cold foods cold. Although it will take a lot of serving dishes and serving utensils to cover all the ingredients, it won't take a whole lot of preparation time. Browning the hamburger will be the most costly in terms of time, and it can be kept hot on the stove or in a crock-pot or roaster. All other ingredients can be prepared at home and brought ready to serve.

Taco Salad Potluck: It's a Shared Expense

Taco meat is probably the most expensive part of the meal, but when that's all you are expected to provide, it's doable. Having to purchase every one of the ingredients used in making tacos, is quite an expense. To throw a taco salad dinner for a crowd, can cost better than a hundred dollars--if you pay for all the ingredients. But with the ingredient expense being shared by the guests, it makes a taco salad potluck more than convenient and tasty. It makes it affordable.

Taco Salad Potluck: It's a Comfort Meal

Tacos are one of those comfort foods that we all seem to love. If you worry about what to serve a crowd of discriminating people, you won't be worrying with taco salad. Even vegetarians can find their way around a taco salad table. Dieters are delighted with the veggie options, and picky-eaters can find something among the ingredients that suit them.

Taco Salad Potluck: It's Great Indoors or Outdoors

One great thing about the taco salad potluck is that it's flexible. You can serve taco salad inside or outside, in a church fellowship hall or at the city park. The meal is easy to transport, and if you serve the meal using paper plates and plastic utensils, there's very little clean up.

For a great potluck idea that takes most of the work off you and is a crowd-friendly favorite, you can't miss with a taco salad potluck. You get to share the meal expense with all the guests, and you can take the meal anywhere. Why not consider making your next potluck a taco salad potluck?