Enchilada Dip with Ground Beef
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Enchilada Dip with Ground Beef is a Delicious Mexican beef appetizer or side dish that is ready to serve in 15 minutes flat. No slow cooker or special pan needed and most of your enchilada ingredients are right in your home!
Get ready to say WOW!
This beef dip recipe is a great one to experiment with flavors and is a great base to something even greater! Such a fun flavorful dip, enchilada beef dip also makes a perfect lunch if you want something to whip up quickly and still tastes great.
Why you will love this beef dip!
While enchilada dips can be made a variety of ways, with chicken, cheese or beef, this ground beef enchilada dip is one of the best Mexican sides, delicious appetizers or full lunch. Heart beefy meat with tons of cheese and the ease of canned enchilada sauce means not only quick but massive flavor.
Ingredients
Beef enchilada dip with melted cheese and sour cream is Taco Tuesday any night of the week! Before you get started on making this recipe, here are the ingredients needed for Beef Enchilada Dip.
- ground beef or ground sausage
- can of red enchilada sauce
- shredded cheese – Mexican flavored mixes go great
- sour cream – full fat
- cumin
- garlic salt
- onions – diced
Ugly Dips make the Best Dips
After over 10 years of blogging and tens of thousands of photos taken and advertised I have learned one thing- y’all, the audience, don’t always care if the pictures are perfect. If the lighting is right. If something is a little overexposed or not sharp enough.
What you want is a solid, delicious recipe idea that is easy, doesn’t break the bank, and tastes great. And throughout the years I have had far more amazing recipes than crappy ones.
But here is the thing- some food is just freaking UGLY. Casseroles, dips, heck anything that involves beef, but its also some of the BEST food. So I am going to try to let my personal need to only put out pictures that are awesome and instead share with you some of my normal day to day life that doesn’t include set ups, but rather real cooking experiences.
And I hope that you come along with my adventures, forgive me for the “non-professional” imagery and give these homemade recipes a shot.
How to make Beef Enchilada Dip
- Brown up ground beef (or ground sausage) with chopped onions until meat is done. Feel free to drain grease if you have to much in your cast iron pan
. I buy lean meats so I typically do not have a lot to drain out and like the extra flavor fat can bring. - Season ground beef with garlic salt, cumin and a bit of pepper (optional). I have suggested measurements on these spices, but you can add more or less depending on your taste buds.
- Pour in one can of enchilada sauce and combine everything together in the pan. Heat and stir well.
- Add 1/3rd cup sour cream into the enchilada mixture and stir until melted.
- Add 2 cups of shredded cheese, continue stirring so as not to burn, until completely melted.
- Serve dip with tortilla chips or broken taco shells.
. I buy lean meats so I typically do not have a lot to drain out and like the extra flavor fat can bring. 
Related Recipes
This cheesy beef dip is just one option in a large array of amazing dip recipes. If you are looking for more to munch on, whether its a football party, Saturday afternoon or Netflix night, dips make the greatest usage of time in the kitchen.
- Try Velveeta Dip with Chicken, this is a favorite recipe around here and is so good left in a slow cooker!
- TikTok Queso – this is the infamous grilled Queso that can be made right in the oven or on the grill and it is SO easy to get right the first time!
- Last but not least, try this doubles as a dinner dip, super cheesy enchilada chicken dip. It looks plain on film but is creamy and classic, plus easy to add extras like Pico De Gallo on top for color.
Beef Enchilada Dip
Ingredients
- 1/2 pound ground beef or ground sausage
- 10 oz. red enchilada sauce canned
- 2 cups shredded cheese Mexican Mix
- 1/3 cup sour cream
- 1 tsp cumin
- 1 tsp garlic salt
- 1/4 cup onions
Instructions
- Brown up hamburger meat and chopped onions until done. If there is extra grease, drain.
- Season beef with garlic salt, cumin and a bit of pepper (optional).
- Pour in one can of enchilada sauce and combine until well mixed.
- Add 1/3rd cup sour cream into the pan and stir with a wooden spoon until melted and creamy.
- Add 2 cups of shredded cheese around the skillet, stirring so as not to burn, until completely cheese is fully melted.
- Serve immediately while hot with tortilla chips.
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Nutrition
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This looks so good. I am a huge fan of anything enchilada, so an easy dip is a must for our family!
I made this tonight, it was pretty good but needs more flavor! And I’m Not sure what to add
If you like things spicier, maybe try some Tabasco or cumin? I would also think adding a jar of salsa would add some tomatoes and a little kick 🙂
adding taco seasoning is the quickest and easiest way to add more flavor
Hi Tonya, yes that would be a great variation of this dip recipe!
Maybe try it with sausage? I love the flavor regular sausage adds to things
Try a can of corn, drained and thinly sliced green onions added at the end
This looks amazing! Definitely going to try it this weekend, my kids would love it.
What kind of cheese did you use for your recipe
Hi Larry, cheese choice is always up to you of course, but I like mixed cheeses like Monterrey Jack and Colby (used here). Mixed Mexican cheeses work great too!
Can I use cream cheese instead of sour cream?
I dont see why that wouldnt taste good! Sour cream is used often in dips, so should be fine.
I made this, and added black beans to it. Soooo good. Will make it all the time, and try putting different things in it.
Ooh, black beans, what a delicious addition!!
Are you sure about a tablespoon of garlic salt?
nope its a tsp
Can you make this dip ahead of time & refrigerate?
Yes, there shouldn’t be any problem in reheating!
1/4 cut onion,1/4th cup?
Good grief….I cant believe I spelling mistake with a T instead of a P. Thank you for the catch!
Try a can of green Chile’s in the recipe for more flavor.
Great recipe. I added a can of seasoned black beans and a candle rotella tomatoes full pound of beef. Turned out great. Thank you for the recipe
Oops can of rotella
Wow! Love this dip! It has a unique flavor.
Definitely our new football dip.
Added a few cubes of cream cheese and was delish!
Can I substitute ground turkey for ground Beef?
It might taste different but protein substitutions are just fine.
Do you think this could be made in a crockpot? If so, how long would you suggest it cook?
If it was going crockpot, I would make the meat and then combine everything in the crockpot on low, stirring every 20 minutes or so until hot and then move to warm.
Easy-Peasy & SO yummy! Best chips to go with it: El Patio Original (Austin, TX) I had left over taco meat, so I just used that – came out great!
Have made this twice and it is always gone. This time added 4 oz can of mild hatch green chilies, added a little extra flavor.