Ground Beef Tacos with Tomato-Avocado Salsa

Ground Beef Tacos with Tomato-Avocado Salsa, are a perfect easy year round meal the whole family is going to devour! You could also eat the tasty ground beef taco filling and salsa inside lettuce wraps if you prefer.

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When I was a kid I loved my mom’s tacos. Mom would fry corn tortillas to make shells. Then she folded them over to be filled with spicy taco meat, grated cheese, lettuce, hot sauce, and sometimes tomatoes. When we ate mom’s tacos, we had to hold them over a plate because so much grease would drip out!

Ground Beef Tacos with Tomato-Avocado Salsa is a different version of ground beef tacos! These days I make tacos into a low-carb meal by using low-carb flour tortillas. I season the ground beef with my homemade taco seasoning and serve the tacos with a tomato-avocado salsa (with cucumber!)

The tacos you see here are an updated version of Spicy Ground Beef and Black Beans Tacos I first made years ago! But these days a lot of my readers don’t want beans in their taco meat. (If you do want the black beans, follow that link and see the original recipe.)

And Cinco de Mayo is less than two weeks away, and these tacos would be a perfect dinner for that! You can make the ground beef tacos even if you don’t have every ingredient. We doubled the meat, so  you can probably have tacos for dinner more than once. And keep reading to find out about the frozen avocado that we used in the salsa for these tacos!

What ingredients do you need for this recipe?

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• ground beef
• Olive Oil (affiliate link)
• Taco Seasoning, I used Kalyn’s Taco Seasoning
• water
• tomatoes
• cucumber
• avocado (I used frozen avocado)
• green onion
• fresh cilantro (optional)
• Green Tabasco Sauce (affiliate link), optional
• fresh-squeezed lime juice, I used my fresh-frozen lime juice
• Mission Carb Balance Whole Wheat Tortillas (affiliate link) or other low-carb tortillas

Have you Tried Frozen Avocado?

I recently discovered frozen avocado chunks at Costco, and was excited to try them. I saw mixed reviews online, and it’s not the same as eating a creamy fresh avocado that’s at the peak of ripeness. But we thought the frozen avocado was great in this recipe! We took the avocado out of the freezer and let it sit for a while to thaw. If you try frozen avocado chunks, I’d use them in dishes where avocado is mixed with flavor-enhancing ingredients. I can’t wait to try them in my favorite avocado sauce, homemade guacamole, or guacamole tostadas.

How low in carbs are the Ground Beef Tacos?

If you make these tacos with low-carb tortillas like I did, each taco has only 6 net carbs with 32 grams of protein!

How to make Ground Beef Tacos with Tomato-Avocado Salsa:

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1. If you’re using frozen avocado, remove  from the freezer at least 30 minutes before you start. Let avocado thaw on the counter in a covered bowl.
2. Heat oil in a heavy frying pan, add ground beef, and cook over medium-high heat until meat is nicely browned.
3. Add Kalyn’s Taco Seasoning Mix (or your favorite brand) and water and simmer until liquid is evaporated and meat is well-seasoned.
4. I use an old-fashioned potato masher (affiliate link) to break the meat apart while it cooks.
5. While meat mixture simmers, chop cucumbers into very small pieces and dice the tomatoes.  If you’re using fresh avocado, finely diced one large avocado.
6. Slice up green onions and finely chop the cilantro (if using.)
7. Mix diced avocado, diced cucumbers, diced tomatoes, chopped cilantro, sliced green onion, Green Tabasco Sauce (affiliate link) or other hot sauce, and lime juice to make the salsa
8. We used Mission Carb Balance Whole Wheat Tortillas (with 3 net carbs per tortilla) but use any tortillas you prefer.
9. Warm tortillas in a hot pan or in microwave between two moist paper towels. (This takes barely a minute; don’t leave them in there too long.)
10. As soon as you take tortillas out of the pan or the microwave, fold them in half.
11. Open tortillas, cover one half with spicy ground beef, then spoon a generous amount of salsa mixture over the beef, fold tortillas over and eat ground beef tacos while they’re hot! 
12. The ground beef will keep in the fridge for a few days or frozen.
13. The salsa mixture was still pretty good after it had been in the fridge overnight, but it’s best freshly made if possible.

Make it a Low-Carb Meal:

If you want something to add to these tacos for a heartier meal, they would be great with any of these salads:

• Spicy Lime Coleslaw
• Spicy Cabbage Puerto Rican Salad
• Jicama Carrot Radish Slaw
• Heart of Palm and Avocado Salad
• No Mayo Vinegar Coleslaw

Weekend Food Prep:

This recipe for Ground Beef Tacos has been added to a category called Weekend Food Prep where you’ll find find recipes you can prep or cook on the weekend and eat during the week!

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Yield: 8 tacos

Ground Beef Tacos with Tomato-Avocado Salsa

Prep Time 30 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Total Time 50 minutes

Ground Beef Tacos with Tomato-Avocado Salsa are so tasty, and if you use low-carb tortillas this is perfect for a low-carb meal.

Ingredients

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• 2 lbs. ground beef
• 2 tsp. olive oil
• 1/4 cup Taco Seasoning (see notes)
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 1 1/4 cup chopped tomatoes
• 1 cup finely chopped cucumber
• 1 1/4 cup chopped avocado (see notes)
• 1/4 cup thinly sliced green onion
• 1/2 cup finely chopped fresh cilantro (optional)
• 2 tsp. Green Tabasco Sauce (see notes)
• 3 T fresh-squeezed lime juice (see notes)
• 1 T olive oil
• 8 Mission Carb Balance Whole Wheat Tortillas

Instructions

1. If you're planning to use frozen avocado to make the salsa, remove it from the freezer at least 30 minutes or so before you start the recipe. Let the avocado thaw on the counter in a covered bowl.
2. Heat oil in a heavy frying pan, crumble in the ground beef, and cook over medium-high heat until the meat is nicely browned.
3. Add Kalyn's Taco Seasoning Mix (or your favorite brand) and water and simmer until the liquid is evaporated and the meat is well-seasoned.
4. While the taco meat simmers, I use an old-fashioned potato masher (affiliate link) to break it apart so it's in very fine chunks when I'm ready to use it in the tacos.
5. While the meat mixture simmers, chop cucumbers into very small pieces and dice the tomatoes.  If you're using fresh avocado, finely diced one large avocado.
6. Slice up desired amount of green onions and finely chop the cilantro (if using.)
7. Mix the diced avocado, diced cucumbers, diced tomatoes, chopped cilantro, sliced green onion, Green Tabasco Sauce (affiliate link) or other hot sauce, and lime juice to make the salsa
8. We used these Mission Carb Balance Whole Wheat Tortillas (with 3 net carbs per tortilla) but use any low-carb tortillas or tortillas you prefer.
9. Warm the tortillas in a hot pan or the microwave between two moist paper towels. (This takes barely a minute; don't leave them in there too long.)
10. As soon as you take tortillas out of the pan or the microwave, fold them in half.
11. Open tortillas, cover one half with spicy ground beef, then spoon a generous amount of salsa mixture over the beef, fold tortillas over and eat!
12. The ground beef will keep in the fridge for a few days or frozen.
13. The salsa mixture was still pretty good after it had been in the fridge overnight, but it's best freshly made if possible.

Notes

We used Kalyn's Taco Seasoning Mix but use your favorite packaged taco seasoning if you prefer. Use more or less taco seasoning to taste.

You can use 1 1/4 cup of frozen avocado, thawed, or dice up one large fresh avocado for this recipe.

I'm a huge fan of Green Tabasco Sauce (affiliate link) but use your favorite hot sauce if you don't have it.

I used my fresh-frozen lime juice for the salsa.

Nutritional information is calculated based on net carbs in the brand of low-carb tortillas I used.

Spicy Ground Beef and Black Beans Tacos were first created by Kalyn in 2011, recipe was adapted into this lower-carb version in March 2020.

Nutrition Information

Yield

8

Serving Size

1
Amount Per Serving Calories 416Total Fat 27gSaturated Fat 9gTrans Fat 1gUnsaturated Fat 15gCholesterol 101mgSodium 475mgCarbohydrates 9gFiber 3gSugar 2gProtein 32g

Nutrition information is automatically calculated by the Recipe Plug-In I am using. I am not a nutritionist and cannot guarantee 100% accuracy, since many variables affect those calculations.

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Low-Carb Diet / Low-Glycemic Diet / South Beach Diet Suggestions:
If you want to eat ground beef tacos for a low-carb meal, be sure to use low-carb tortillas, and for Keto you may want to make these into lettuce wrap tacos. If made with whole wheat flour tortillas, low-fat ground beef, and low-fat cheese, these tacos would be a good choice for Phase 2 or 3 of the original South Beach Diet.

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Historical Notes for this Recipe:
A version of this recipe with black beans was first posted in 2011. It was updated to be Ground Beef Tacos with fewer carbs in 2020, and the recipe was last updated with more information in 2026.