32 Creative Recipes Made With Doritos

Published Jun 6, 2017 By Diane

Looking for some cool new recipe ideas? If you love Doritos or are looking for some creative but easy ideas for lunch, dinner or snacks, then we found the perfect recipes for you to try today. Mouthwatering salads, appetizers and party foods can be made simply by using Doritos when you cook. Yum! Check out these awesome tutorials and make something awesome tonight to impress friends and family. I have so many fond memories of my Mom making tacos a few times a month when I was growing up. The smell of taco seasoning wafting through the air signaled I was in for a feast. So these Dorito recipes are so perfect for me time wise and also money wise, but they just feel like home, they remind me of my Mom, who I love so much.

32 Creative Doritos Recipes

1. Loaded Chicken Taco Salad with Creamy Lime-Cilantro Dressing

averiecooks

I’ve been to plenty of potlucks and parties where ‘taco salad’ is served but there’s an absence of any lettuce other than a few shreds of iceberg. In place of the lettuce, there are thick layers of sour cream, cream cheese, cheese, guacamole, and refried beans topped with tortilla chips. Not exactly a skinny ‘salad’. For this recipe, I brought the lettuce back into the salad and loaded it with all my favorite taco fixing. There’s juicy chicken cooked with the comforting flavors of taco seasoning, juicy tomatoes and corn, protein-packed chewy black beans, creamy avocado, salty cheese, and crunchy tortilla chips. So much texture and flavor in every bite.

2. Layered Doritos Casserole

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Layered Dorito Casserole is an easy family favorite recipe! Lean ground beef is seasoned with taco seasoning and salsa to create a delicious filling. Layers of Doritos create a delicious base for this casserole which is then topped with cheese and baked until brown and bubbly. We top it with our favorite taco inspired toppings!

3. Cool Ranch Dorito Cheese Curds

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Cool Ranch Cheese Curds are so fabulous because… Geez! Cool Ranch Doritos are a guilty pleasure of many people. Making the spice mix YOURSELF and tossing it onto these cheese curds makes it… well… not precisely health food, but WAY the heck healthier than digging into a bag of Doritos. Besides, Cool Ranch Dorito cheese curds are beyond delicious on Taco Salads or as a quick, high-protein snack and game-day finger food no matter which sport you fancy most. Me? I may have turned eating these into a sport. Hey. It’s a special skill.

4. Mexican Chef Pasta Salad

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This version of Mexican Chef Pasta Salad is an adaptation from a salad my sister makes annually on our family beach trip. Confession: we can’t stop eating it. This pasta salad is a wonderful “one pot” meal. I think it’s the tangy sweetness of the dressing with the seasoned taco meat and fresh tomatoes and avocado and crunchy chips. It’s the “yin and yang” of all the delicious ingredients and the texture is wonderful too. Plus you can serve this baby room temperature or right out of the fridge. My vote: room temp!

5. Nacho Cheese Doritos Casserole

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Want a quick and easy dinner that the kids will love…then give this Nacho Cheese Doritos Casserole a try! It’s incredibly easy to make, layered with gooey deliciousness, and never fails to please! Add your favorite toppings, or a nice bed of lettuce (or more chips!), depending on what your preferences are. This simple casserole can easily be modified to your family’s preferences, like the way that we have excluded black beans from this version, as our daughter simply won’t eat them (if she sees them…we’ve been known to puree them and add them to our taco meat!).

6. Dorito Crusted Chicken Bites

rasamalaysia

Tortilla Chip-crusted Chicken Bites – coated with crispy tortilla chips and baked to perfection. 10 minutes active time and dinner is ready! It’s back-to-school season again and I have an amazing recipe to share with you—this super easy and delicious tortilla chip-crusted chicken bites, made with organic chicken tenders! So delicious and my Baby loves them!

7. Jessica’s Taco Salad With Creamy Taco Dressing

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When I want to make a one-dish taco salad to set on the table, I take the liberty of arranging Jessica’s salad into layers in a low, wide pan (I like to use this round braiser because it’s great for more than cooking in!), prettily displaying all the different salad ingredients. This method highlights the variety of colors and textures in an artful, yet simple, way. This presentation is great for entertaining when not serving buffet-style. It takes up less space on the table, and you can still have available smaller bowls of additional condiments. Like black beans. Our girls always request that black beans be served “on the side”, as they are not fans.

8. Southwest Salad With Garlic Lime Dressing And Doritos

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Vegetable eating is something that makes me feel…..on {for lack of a better word}. Sometimes I push the boundaries of my veggie consumption by adding something unquestionably unhealthy. Today’s culprit: Doritos. It doesn’t completely ruin the nutritional value of the salad, it only makes everything taste even better! The salad dressing also plays a delicious roll in this as well. I realize this salad is not a groundbreaking brand new idea, it is however exactly how I get my 5-year-old daughter to eat salad for dinner and lick her plate clean. Mix a lot of healthy with a touch of unhealthy and voila! Veggies go down the hatch.

9. “Dorito”-Flavored Popcorn

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The kids and I were all super excited to work on making a seasoning that we could put on our DIY Dorito popcorn so we could have that delicious Dorito flavor without all the allergy problems and chemical and GMO ickiness. We made a whole bunch of batches of popcorn this past weekend (it was seriously a big-time popcorn fest) but we finally think we’ve come up with the one that tastes the most like Doritos. (Nacho Cheese Doritos, that is. Maybe I can work on another flavor in the future.) And just so you know, this Dorito Popcorn really does taste like Doritos. I shared some with a friend today and she said it really did–and then we took it to a picnic and someone said that our popcorn really smelled like Doritos. Ah—culinary success :).

10. Tater Tot Taco Pizza

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Tater Tot Taco Pizza is a mouthwatering combo of two of your favorite eats: tacos and pizza! The tater tot crust makes this dinner recipe even more fun. There is a pizza shop in our area that makes some fun versions of the classic pizza and one of them in a Taco Pizza, it’s so delicious but, I wanted to make another version with a yummy twist. Instead of the traditional pizza crust, I made a tater tot crust for this Tater Tot Taco Pizza!