These easy homemade baked tortilla bowls are irresistibly crispy—perfect for taco salad! Making homemade taco salad bowls is as simple as pressing a tortilla into an oven safe bowl and baking it. An equally tasty yet healthier alternative to the typical deep fried bowls! Learn how to make taco bowls in the oven in 20 minutes or less, using whole wheat tortillas or flour tortillas.
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tortilla shell maker molds (available at Amazon.com) — press tortillas inside forms, bake for 14-16 minutes or until evenly browned.
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oven proof bowl — coat inside with cooking spray; press tortilla inside bowl; bake for 14-16 minutes or until evenly browned.
Homemade Tortilla Bowls Ingredients
- Tortillas of choice, burrito size (8-10 inch). Personally, I like to use regular flour tortillas or whole wheat tortillas for my taco salad bowls. But, you can also experiment with your favorite gluten-free or grain-free tortilla shells if they’re large enough and relatively sturdy! However, I don’t recommend using corn tortillas as they tend to tear easily.
- Cooking spray
- Oven safe bowl (or tortilla bowl molds)
What do I bake my taco salad bowl in?
First, you’ll need at least one oven safe bowl that you can prepare your homemade baked tortilla bowls in. Look on the bottom of the bowl or on the packaging to be sure it says ‘oven safe’ somewhere. Also, I recommend choosing a bowl that’s fairly deeper than average—about 1-quart to 1½-quarts in size. This is crucial to shaping your taco salad bowl for best results!
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How do you make a tortilla Bowl mold?
Step 1. Preheat the oven to 375F. Step 2. Find the items to use as the tortilla bowl molds. The easiest thing to use as a mold is tin foil 🙂 What you need to do is take a large sheet of tin foil and crumble it into a ball!
How do you cook tortillas in the oven?
Method #2: Form tortillas inside an oven-proof bowl. You can also use any oven-proof bowl you have. Coat the bowl with cooking spray, gently press the tortilla inside the bowl, and bake. These didn’t get as evenly browned as the ones I cooked in the tortilla molds. The edges of the tortilla bowl browned before the bottom.
Can a tortilla mold maker hold a bowl?
These can be made for friends and family in large scales. However, many tortilla mold makers are small and only hold up to one tortilla bowl. First, before we can dive into how to use a small tortilla maker though, we should know the history behind tortillas as well as how to make the masa for a tortilla.
How do I make a tortilla Bowl?
There are also many tips and tricks you can use to perfect making your delicious tortilla bowl! For example, although you can use a small tortilla maker kit, some people use pans that directly go inside of the oven! This does take longer, but gives you the ability and capacity to make more then one tortilla bowls!