What's For Dinner? Taco Night Menu

What’s For Dinner? Don’t worry, I’ve got you covered with this Taco Night Menu! A simple and fun dinner everyone will love!

Welcome back to another edition of What’s For Dinner! Every Sunday I post a full dinner menu idea with the hope that it will help make your meal planning just a little easier. Sometimes it’s nice to have a dinner menu thought out for you…and even better if it’s a simple and delicious one! This edition of What’s For Dinner is Taco Night…perfect for Taco Tuesday (or any night of the week)!

Make Taco Night at Family Favourite!

Taco night is a night my kids always look forward to! There’s nothing better than assembling your own dinner with all of your favourite toppings. The kids love it, and so do my husband and I. This weeks menu for tacos includes the main dish of tacos, plus a homemade salsas, a rice side dish and grilled pineapple for dessert. Delicious.

Main Dish, Taco Recipes: Ground Beef Tacos or Ground Turkey Tacos with Homemade Taco Seasoning, or Grilled Beef Tacos and Taco Toppings
Side Dish: Fresh Tomato and Mango Salsa or Salsa Verde
Side Dish: Green Chili and Cilantro Rice
Dessert: Grilled Pineapple with Vanilla Ice Cream

three soft tacos filled with meat and vegetables

Taco Night Essentials:

Tacos: Soft Tortillas (flour tortillas or corn tortillas) or Hard Taco Shells or tortilla chips
Meat: Taco Spice Seasoned Ground Beef or Ground Turkey, or Grilled Beef (steak) or Mexican Shrimp
Fresh taco toppings:
- chopped tomatoes
- bell peppers
- lettuce
- cilantro
- jalapeno peppers
- green onions
- chopped cabbage (can buy a pre-made slaw)
- fresh mango
- avocado
Grated cheese: cheddar or Monterey Jack
Sour cream
Beans: refried beans, black beans
Guacamole
Salsas, Sauce + Dips:
- Homemade Tomato and Mango Salsa
- Homemade Salsa Verde
- Queso
Rice: Green Chili and Cilantro Rice

Flavourful Taco Meat

I like to make ground beef tacos for our taco night. If you need to know How To Make Ground Beef, you can check out that post (it also includes 6 more recipes to make with ground beef). Or if you want to try something different, ground turkey is delicious in tacos too!

Make your own seasoning!

To season the ground beef, you can either buy taco seasoning or make your own. I prefer to make my own, and use this recipe for Homemade Taco Seasoning…it’s SO good, and much more flavourful than the store bought kind! I will make a big batch and keep it in my spice cupboard for easy use.

A delicious side dish or taco filling:

This Green Chili and Cilantro Rice is a great side dish for tacos. You can either serve it on the side, or add it right to your tacos. It’s really yummy.

Make some homemade Fresh Salsa!

When I can, I like to make fresh salsa for our tacos. This Fresh Tomato and Mango Salsa is a really great recipe…I like the savoury ingredients paired with the sweetness of the mango.

Don’t forget dessert!

And for dessert, this Grilled Pineapple and Vanilla Ice Cream is perfect! My kids go crazy over grilled pineapple. The pineapple in this recipe is coated in cinnamon and sugar, then grilled on the BBQ…major deliciousness.