Taco Ring

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• 1 lb lean ground beef, cooked and drained
• 1 tablespoon taco seasoning
• 1 cup cheddar cheese, shredded
• 2 tablespoons water
• 3 (8 ounce) packages refrigerated crescent dinner rolls
• 1/2 cup pitted ripe olives
• 1 medium green bell pepper
• 1 cup salsa
• 3 cups lettuce, shredded
• 1/4 cup onion, chopped
• sour cream

Recipe

• 1 cook ground beef and chopped onion in a large skillet. drain excess fat.
• 2 preheat oven to 375 degrees. in a large bowl combine beef, onion, seasoning mix, cheese, and water.
• 3 unroll cresent dough; separate into triangles. arrange triangles in a circle on 13" baking stone or pizza pan with wide ends overlapping in center and points of triangles toward outside. there should be a five inch diameter opening in the center.
• 4 scoop meat mixture evenly onto widest end of each triangle. bring points of triangles up over filling and tuck under wide ends of dough at center of ring. (filling will not be completely covered)
• 5 bake 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.
• 6 cut off top of bell pepper. discard top, membranes, and seeds. fill pepper with salsa. shred lettuce and chop tomato, and slice olives.
• 7 place bell pepper in center of ring; arrange lettuce, tomato, and olives around pepper.
• 8 slice ring to serve.