If you love Mexican food, these air fryer mini beef tacos in the Ninja Foodi need to start being on your Taco Tuesday rotation. These fried mini tacos are super easy to make with cooked ground beef seasoned with taco seasoning, quesadilla cheese, and flour or corn tortilla shells. Our favorite gameday snacks or easy dinner recipe.
Don't have an air fryer yet? I love my Ninja Foodi that has pressure cooking, baking, and air crisping all in one. These mini tacos might be reason enough to get one. Ninja Foodi air fryer mini beef tacos are made with street taco flour tortillas, ground beef and cheese then air fried until crisp. So easy to make and so good.
Ingredients for Mini Beef Tacos
The ingredients for these mini beef tacos are simple.
- Street Taco Tortillas - Corn or Flour tortillas will work. I think the flour work better for this recipe because they do not break as easily.
- Ground Beef - If I am being honest, I mix ground pork with ground beef. But not everyone has to do that. I just love the flavor of pork and beef together for any Mexican recipe that calls for ground beef or hamburger.
- Taco Seasoning - Try this homemade version of a taco seasoning. I also love Penzeys Bold Taco seasoning. To shake it up, also add some ranch seasoning to the meat.
- Queso Quesadilla Cheese - This cheese is my favorite cheese for these tacos because of how it melts. I get the block of this cheese and grate it myself. You will not regret splurging on this cheese. Honestly, it isn't even that expensive.
- Cojita Cheese - This is the white powdery cheese. It is great on top of the tacos and toppings but completely optional.
- Taco Toppings - lettuce, guacamole, salsa, sour cream and anything else you like. We actually put all the toppings on the side of the tacos and dip the tacos into the toppings.
Ninja Foodi Air Fryer Mini Beef Tacos
The simplicity of these tacos is why I think they will be a regular rotation at our house. I love street tacos. Then my girlfriend brought over mini chicken tacos from Sam's Club to make in the Foodi. While they were great, I knew the beef version would be a big hit for my family.
The beef base was made from ground beef cooked in the microwave in my microcooker. Feel free to brown on the stovetop. When the hamburger is about cooked, add taco seasoning. I am obsessed with the bulk homemade taco seasoning recipe from Mama in Midst.
When the beef is cooked, mix shredded queso quesadilla cheese with the beef. The cheese should melt. Stuff the street taco with the cheese and beef mixture. Then top off with a bit more shredded cheese.
Fill the shells and get the Ninja Foodi preheated as you continue to fill the tacos. One pound of meat will easily fill ten street taco shells.
Spray the air fryer basket with cooking spray and then lay the tacos in the basket. Spray the top of the tacos with cooking spray as well.
Cook on 400 degrees for 10 minutes. Flip them if you want about halfway through. The cook crisp on both sides even if you don't flip them. Once the cheese is melted and the shell is crispy, the mini beef tacos are done.
I prepped our plates with shredded lettuce, guacamole, and sour cream while the mini tacos were in the air fryer. Serve with your favorite taco toppings. You can actually peel them open to put topping inside as well.
Just keep filling the air fryer with tacos until the family is entirely filled. Trust me, it will take a few rounds of tacos to fill the family.
Taco Recipes
If your family loves tacos, then you will want to put some of these recipes into your taco night rotation.
Creamy Chicken Tacos - Baked Chicken Tacos
The Ultimate Baked Tacos - Creamy Ground Beef Baked Tacos
Guacamole Burgers - Lettuce Wrapped Burger Version
Ninja Foodi Recipes
Looking for more amazing recipes to make in the Ninja Foodi? Look no further, I have my favorite recipes here for you to make.
Air Fryer Broccoli Recipe- Ninja Foodi Broccoli
Ninja Foodi Quiche - Crustless Bacon Cheese Quiche
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Air Fryer Mini Beef Tacos in the Ninja Foodi
Equipment
- Ninja Foodi
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground beef
- 10 Street Taco Shells
- 1 tablespoon taco seasoning
- 8 ounces Queso Quesadilla Cheese, Shredded
- cooking spray
Instructions
- Cook the ground beef until no longer pink. Mix the seasoning into the meat with a half a cup of water. Cook until water is evaporated.
- Mix half the cheese with the ground beef taco meat. Begin heating up the air fryer on 400°.
- Spoon the meat and cheese combination into the street tacos. Top off with the remaining shredded cheese.
- Spray the air fryer basket with cooking spray. Place the mini tacos in the basket. Spray the tops of the tacos with cooking spray.
- Cook for 10 minutes on 400° or until cheese is melted and the shells are crisp.
Nutrition
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Wow, these look really, really good. Thanks for sharing the recipe!
Did you turn them at 5 minutes?
Yes. Sometimes, I turn them sooner depending on how crunchy my kids want them.