How to Make Soft Shell Tacos

Soft tacos are often served with Spanish rice and make an excellent, healthy meal.

Soft shell tacos are a quick and easy dinner that is fun to make and eat. If you include lettuce and tomato in the "fixings," you'll even have covered all the major food groups with your entrée alone! Even better, in about 15 minutes you can make delicious soft shell tacos that are so good your family will think you spent hours in the kitchen.

Things You'll Need

• Corn or flour tortillas
• Jar of salsa
• Chopped Tomatoes
• Shredded lettuce
• Grated cheese
• Ground beef, turkey or chicken
• Sour cream (optional)
• Skillet
• Microwave
• 2 large plates
• Paper towels

Instructions

1. 

   Brown the meat. Place your ground meat in a skillet and brown it. When the meat is cooked all the way through, you may want to drain the excess grease before moving on to Step 2.

2. 

   Add salsa to the meat. You can add the entire jar or just a few spoonfuls, but the more salsa you add, the juicier your tacos will be. Once you've added the salsa, turn down the heat and cover the pan.

3. Microwave four or more tortillas. Pile the tortillas on a large plate with a paper towel in between each tortilla. Microwave them on high for 20 seconds, then remove them from the microwave.

4. 

   Place a single tortilla on one side of the serving plate. You will be building your soft tacos on this plate, so be sure that you leave enough room for all of them.

5. 

   Spoon some taco meat onto the tortilla. The meat needs to be near the center of the tortilla so that it does not fall out when you fold the taco later.

6. 

   Add toppings of your choice. These may be cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream or any other topping that you enjoy on your tacos.

7. 

   Fold the tortilla in half and your taco is finished. Build all the tacos following the same steps, then serve and enjoy!