Double Decker Taco Supreme

My cooking club did some experimenting with copycat recipes.  They were all great!  This particular recipe was presented by my friend Kayte (the same person who introduced me to Mint Julep Baby Back Ribs! She has a knack for finding GREAT recipes!)  Anyway, she told us that the Taco Bell Crunchy taco supreme was a guilty pleasure of hers.  Well, the Taco Bell Double Decker taco's were a guilty pleasure of mine.... so I added a flour tortilla and some beans, and voila! The double decker taco has been reborn in my kitchen.  I haven't had one in YEARS, so it was so fun to indulge!!  My kids enjoyed it too.  My mom likes these better than regular crunchy tacos because the soft flour tortilla on the outside of the crunchy taco acts has a hammock to catch everything that falls out of the crunchy taco shell that breaks after the first bite.

Copycat Double Decker Taco Supreme

Beef Filling

1 1/2 Tablespoons masa harina

1 1/2 Tablespoons chili powder

1/2 teaspoon onion powder

1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

1/2 teaspoon seasoning salt

1/2 teaspoon paprika

1/4 teaspoon ground cumin

1/2 teaspoon garlic salt

1/4 teaspoon sugar

1 teaspoon dried minced onion

1/2 teaspoon beef bouillon powder

1 1/3 pounds lean ground sirloin

12 crunchy taco shells

12 small flour tortillas

1 can refried beans

Sour cream

1/2 head iceberg lettuce, shredded

1/2 cup grated cheddar cheese

1/2 cup diced tomatoes

For Beef filling: Combine all dry ingredients in a small bowl, make sure they're all evenly distributed throughout the whole mixture.

Place the ground beef into a large skillet over medium high heat.  Break up meat with a wooden spoon until it's well broken down.  Cook meat until it's all brown.  Carefully put meat into a strainer, and strain off fat.  Rinse with hot water and continue to drain off fat at water.  Return beef to the pan, add spice mix and an additional 3/4 - 1 cup of water.  Return heat to medium and simmer for 20 minutes, until most of the moisture has cooked out, but meat isn't completely dry.

While meat is simmering chop up lettuce, and tomatoes.  Grate cheese.  Heat up beans in a small sauce pan, and warm the small flour tortillas.  When all ingredients are prepped, assemble the tacos.

Assembly:  Fill crunchy taco with beef.  Add a dollop of sour cream to the top of beef.  Add lettuce, cheese and tomatoes.  Set taco aside.  Add a spoonful of refried beans to warm flour tortilla, use the back of the spoon to spread beans all over the flour tortilla.  Place prepared taco in center of flour tortilla with beans.  Fold up side of flour tortilla to cover the crunchy taco.  Repeat with remaining taco ingredients.  Serve and enjoy!!