Taco Ring (from Pampered Chef)

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• 1 lb lean ground beef
• 1 (1 1/4 ounce) package taco seasoning mix
• 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese (4 ounces)
• 2 tablespoons water
• 2 (8 ounce) packages refrigerated crescent dinner rolls
• 1 medium bell pepper
• 1 cup salsa
• 3 cups lettuce, shredded
• 1 medium tomato
• 1/4 cup onion, chopped (optional)
• 1/2 cup pitted ripe black olives (optional)
• sour cream (optional)

Recipe

• 1 cook ground beef in large skillet over medium heat 7-9 minutes or until beef is no longer pink; drain.
• 2 remove pan from heat.
• 3 stir in taco seasoning mix, cheese and water.
• 4 preheat oven to 375°f.
• 5 unroll crescent dough; separate into triangles.
• 6 arrange triangles in a circle on classic round pizza stone with wide ends overlapping in center and points toward outside. (there should be a 5 inch diameter opening in center.) i use my pampered chef pizza stone, but any flat round pan should work--perhaps even a pizza sheet, but i'd spray it with pam before adding the crescent rolls.
• 7 scoop meat mixture evenly onto widest end of each triangles up over filling and tuck under wide ends of dough at center of ring. (filling will not be completely covered).
• 8 bake at 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.
• 9 shred lettuce and chop tomato, onion, olives, and bell pepper (if desired).
• 10 if you want to do something fancy, scoop out a bell pepper and fill with salsa and put into center of ring.
• 11 add your toppings to top of ring and finish with more shredded cheese and sour cream.
• 12 this is great with a salad.