How to Serve Canned Diced Tomatoes at a Taco Bar

Canned, diced tomatoes are a useful addition to a taco bar.

Tacos are an easy choice to feed a crowd. A taco bar accommodates individual tastes by allowing people to choose for themselves the ingredients they want on their tacos. Common items on a taco bar include seasoned ground beef, shredded cheese, taco shells, sour cream, lettuce, taco sauce and diced tomatoes. Canned diced tomatoes are easy to serve and save you the time of having to chop fresh tomatoes.

Things You'll Need

• Serving dish
• Canned diced tomatoes
• Can opener
• Serving Spoon

Instructions

1. Select a clean dish for containing the diced tomatoes. The dish should be large enough to hold enough tomatoes to serve several people, but keep under consideration the total allotted space for the taco bar. The dish for the tomatoes should be no larger than the dishes used for other toppings.

2. Open the cans of diced tomatoes. Drain the liquid from the tomatoes. Pour drained tomatoes into serving dish.

3. Place the serving dish filled with diced tomatoes on the taco bar. Include a serving utensil, such as a spoon. Tomatoes are one of the last toppings people put on tacos, so the dish of tomatoes should be placed near the end of the line of taco fillings.

4. Monitor how quickly the tomatoes are being used and refill the bowl of canned, diced tomatoes as necessary.

References

• Food Network: Emeril Lagasse: Taco Bar Recipes