Shake up Taco Tuesday and make this tasty Crescent Roll Taco Ring! It's easy to pull together, with crescent rolls, ground, beef, refried beans, and cheese. Great for dinner, a buffet, or an appetizer.
You could call this a taco pull-apart bread. The flaky crescent roll dough is filled with your favorite taco filling ingredients and layered to make something everyone will dig into.
Any Time Mexican Recipes
Whether you are looking for a Taco Tuesday or Cinco de Mayo party recipe or you want a creative way to bake tacos, this recipe is perfect for you!
This taco roll is really fun for game day appetizers or as a new way to make tacos for lunch or dinner. Plus, this taco crescent ring is perfect to add to packed school lunches.
It tastes delicious when you serve it with other Mexican foods, like homemade chips, guacamole, and Spanish Rice made with quinoa. Of course, you can't forget a margarita, or perhaps a Cerveza to get this Mexican monkey bread ready for the party.
Why You'll Love this Easy Taco Ring Recipe
Most taco ring recipes require lining up all the crescent roll triangles in a perfect circle, putting on the filling, folding them over, and baking. So much effort! Whew!
My method makes it easy by making dough balls filled with taco meat that you coat with salsa and cheese and put in a bundt pan and bake.
This recipe is a take on monkey or bubble bread. It doesn't come out like the usual pull-apart breads but more like a round taco roll or casserole ring.
Plus it has a unique bundt look and a perfect circle in the middle to place guacamole or salsa. In a way, it's like a Mexican taco bundt cake.
Ingredients
- Pillsbury Crescent Rolls
- Ground Beef - cooked with taco seasoning
- Refried Beans
- Mexican Blend Shredded Cheese - you can use a combo of Mexican cheese and cheddar cheese as well
- Salsa - make it mild or hot depending on your family's preference
How to Make a Bundt Pan Taco Ring
- Put your ingredients together in an assembly line. Cheese on a plate, taco sauce in a bowl, refried beans can open, cooked meat ready and waiting, and 2 cans of crescent rolls.
- Open the crescent rolls, divide them into individual rolls then place one flat on the table. Place a dab of refried beans and a little ground beef on the wider end.
- Roll up as usual from the wider end to the narrower end.
- Use your hands and shape into a ball.
- Drop the ball in the salsa and make sure to cover it completely.
- Roll in plate of cheese so it is well covered.
- Place the ball in the bottom of a greased bundt pan. Continue with the remaining rolls from the first package to make a nice bottom layer in the pan.
- Sprinkle the taco balls with half of the shredded cheese.
- Repeat with the second package of crescent rolls and make a second layer on top of the first. Sprinkle with the remaining cheese.
- Add any remaining salsa over the top. Don't want to waste any of the goodies.
- Ready to bake at 375 for about 45 minutes.
- Take out when baked and let cool slightly for 7-10 minutes then turn out onto a serving plate.
Serve with your favorite Mexican sides like guacamole, additional salsa, and sour cream.
If you love tacos, enchiladas, and burritos you will love this take on a taco. It makes a delicious quick and easy dinner, an easy-to-serve game-time appetizer, or perhaps an addition to a Cinco de Mayo buffet.
Tips for Crescent Dough
- Always work with cold dough. Warm, room temperature dough can easily tear and be sticky.
- Use a pizza cutter to cut the triangles instead of pulling them apart. This prevents accidentally tearing the triangles and having to press and patch them back together.
What to Serve with Taco Ring
This ground beef taco ring is a great dish to serve with an assortment of sides, sauces, and toppings. Here are some ideas:
- Guacamole
- Salsa
- Lettuce
- Pico de Gallo
- Shredded Cheese
- Sour Cream
- Taco Sauce
- Tomatoes
How to Store and Reheat
To Store: Refrigerate leftovers in an airtight container. The refrigerated leftovers will last up to 5 days.
To Freeze: Wrap with plastic wrap then cover in aluminum foil. The frozen leftovers will last up to 3 months. Thaw in the refrigerator overnight.
To Reheat: Microwave in 30-second intervals until heated through. Or place the leftovers on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet and bake at 325°F for about 10 minutes.
More Mexican Flavored Appetizers
- Air Fryer Quesadillas with ground beef and refried beans.
- Baked Chicken Taquitos with cream cheese are out of this world!
- Homemade Baked Tortilla Chips are great for dips and salsa.
- Easy White Queso Dip From Michigan to the Table
- Mexican Cheese Dip with 3 types of cheese and salsa.
Find lots of easy Mexican recipes here on 2CM!
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Easy Crescent Roll Taco Ring
Ingredients
- 2 packages Pillsbury crescent rolls
- 1 pound ground beef cooked, drained and cooled
- 1¼ cups refried beans
- 1 16-ounce package four cheese Mexican blend shredded cheese
- 1 8-ounce jar salsa (I like to use fresh salsa from the produce section)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Spray a bundt pan with nonstick spray.
- Place salsa in wide mouthed bowl and cheese on a large flat plate.
- Unroll & divide crescent rolls. Starting with 1 roll, spread wider section with small amount of refried beans, keeping it away from edges, then place 1-2 tablespoons of ground beef on top of beans. Fold up sides and ends and form a ball.
- Drop into salsa to coat then roll in cheese. Place in bottom of bundt pan.
- Continue with remaining rolls, making a bottom layer, sprinkle with a little cheese then continue making layers with a little cheese sprinkled on top until all crescent rolls are in pan.
- Pour any remaining salsa over taco balls then sprinkle with remaining cheese.
- Bake in oven for 45 minutes, checking half way through to see if it is getting too brown. If it is too brown, tent with aluminum foil for rest of cook time.
- Remove from oven and let sit 7-10 minutes.
- Loosen edges. Place large plate over top of bundt pan and invert taco puff onto plate. Tap on bottom if it doesn't immediately release.
- Serve with salsa, guacamole and sour cream on the side.
Notes
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This post has been updated with new photos and step-by-step directions. It was first posted on May 3, 2015.
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