You can order a taco salad at a restaurant or make your own at home. They can be high in calories because of the taco salad bowl, cheese, avocados and sour cream.
Calories
The Taco Bell Chicken Ranch Taco Salad has 910 calories, while the Chipotle Steak Taco Salad has 900. The Taco Bell Fiesta Taco salad has 770 calories. A recipe for homemade taco salad using tortilla chips, ground beef, cheddar cheese, sour cream, tomatoes, salsa, lettuce and beans has 846 calories per serving, according to Allrecipes.com.
Considerations
Keeping your portion size small, skipping the taco bowl and using reduced-fat cheese and sour cream will help keep your calories down. The USDA's recipe for taco salad uses ground turkey or beef, lettuce, tomatoes, green peppers, onions, beans and salsa and only has 200 calories per serving.
Warning
The taco salad calories add up quickly at Qdoba and Chipotle. Using ingredients like a tortilla bowl, chicken, grilled vegetables, rice, black beans, salsa, sour cream, cheese and guacamole adds up to 1,390 calories at Qdoba and 1.255 at Chipotle. The tortilla bowl by itself has more than 400 calories.
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