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hello everyone and welcome back I'm
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Katherine with Katherine's plates
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welcome to my home kitchen where we're
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going to make taco soup today now this
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recipe comes out of my first cookbook
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making home cooking simple easy and
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delicious I'm doubling it up today I
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need to make more of my taco seasoning
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and I'm going to put that together
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pretty quickly for you while we're
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Browning up the ground beef so we can
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fill up my container here all right so
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let's get started started I'm very
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familiar with the recipe we'll put the
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book over here for right now we're going
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to put in 2 lbs of ground beef into a
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large Dutch oven now if you're
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interested in the taco seasoning blend I
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have that on my on my recipe blog
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plates.com big batch taco seasoning it's
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so great to have around you can doctor
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it up any way you want you want to add
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more of something or less of something
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we're going to start breaking this up
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and Browning it up now once we get the
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ground beef kind of broken up and it
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starts Browning somewhat we'll add a
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it all right we're going to let that go
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here I've got a medium Bowl I'm going to
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add in my chili powder this is to make
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the big batch taco seasoning now if you
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don't want to make your own taco
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seasoning you don't have to do that you
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can use a store-bought taco seasoning so
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I've got one cup Cup going in because
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I'm doubling up the recipe that I have
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website half a cup of onion powder I'm
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showing you just how easy this
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cumin I'm going to be putting in four
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tablespoons just going to go in with my
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two three and four I love the ground
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Cuma it adds such a warmth to the
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seasoning blend okay I've got my garlic
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tablespoons three and
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four we're going to put in two
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tablespoons of smoked
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one and two we're going to add two
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pepper and this is where you're going to
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be able to judge how much salt you want
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in I'm going to put in two tablespoons
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that way me put a little bit more we can
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adjust that as we're making Mexican
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dishes get you a whisk blend this
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together really well until it's all
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combined y'all this is all
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natural just the seasonings that's
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homemade taco seasoning
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blend she go all the way down to the
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bottom there we go I'm going to open up
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container and we're going to put it in
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there all right I'm just going to use my
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woo now if I have any excess we'll just
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use another container but I'm going to
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try to get it all in there we're going
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to be using some of this
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go big batch taco seasoning I doubled
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the recipe so it fits this container
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right here and we got a nice tight lid
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on it to keep it nice and cool all right
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all right let's go back to our ground
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beef I'm going to take a medium
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onion I'm going to take off the
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layer this is an important part to the
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soup I think all the components are
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important but got to have that onion in
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there I'm going to cut it in half I'm
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just going to make slices through the
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onion through the half
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just kind of follow the lines that'll
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you then we'll just turn it run a knife
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through and those are our
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dices all right we're going to add this
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beef now we'll soften down the onion as
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okay before we start flavoring up the
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ground beef we're going to go ahead and
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drain out any excess grease and I'm just
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going to use my old handy dandy trick
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here just take some paper towels place
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it down in the bottom of it after you've
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shoved everything off to the side and
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then just push into the
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meat and get up any excess grease okay
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we're going to start seasoning that up
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with our taco seasoning now you can use
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your homemade taco seasoning blend three
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tablespoons for each pound of ground
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beef so I'm going to go in with
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six now if you don't have the homemade
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Blends you can use two packages from
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your store that'll equal the six
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tablespoons 1 two 3 four
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six we're going to stir that
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in all right we're going to add in one
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can of Rotel tomatoes now Rotel tomatoes
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are diced tomatoes with green chilies
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this is 10 oz we're going to put it in
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all see those green chilies in there
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yeah this is the original so there may
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be a little extra heat in here than if
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you would have gotten the mild can so
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you could do that or get the hot and
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have it really hot or you can add diced
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tomatoes in there and put we're going to
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put in another can of diced tomatoes
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without the green chilies this is 14
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oz this is kind of a dump and go
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soup I'm going to add in one 15 o can of
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corn now you do want to drain
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this this comes together pretty quickly
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once you get your ground beef and onion
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done everything else just like throw it
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right just went over to the sink so I
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corn here we go we're going to
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add ranch seasoning now I'm going to put
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in six tablespoons of homemade blend
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here or you can use a package from your
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store and use two of them that will
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tablespoons this is my homemade blend
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you can find this also on my recipe blog
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go kind blend this all together
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now we're going to add in the
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broth I'm using the better than bullion
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and you make it per the directions back
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here one teaspoon for every one cup of
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water so I've got four cups right here
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and then I'll make another four
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cups wo yeah let's get all that kind of
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fell down to the bottom there get all
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that out cuz that's all flavor there
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I'll have my husband get me four more
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work y'all know he likes to do that all
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right we got this on a high heat we want
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to bring this to a boil let me move all
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this out of the way all right so this is
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is it's made with seasoned roast beef so
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it has a really delicious flavor in
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there all right I'm going to whisk this
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together we're going to add it to the
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together I'm going to take a spoon I'm
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going to go in I'm going to give this a
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taste see if all my flavors are where I
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them wow that is delicious I feel the
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heat just a little bit back there wow
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delicious I don't need to do anything
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else with this I'm going to bring it to
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a boil let it simmer for about 20
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minutes for all the flavors to pull
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together I'm going to show you how I'm
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going to top my bowl of soup let's grate
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some cheese I've got Cabo creamy
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seriously sharp cheddar cheese for us
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I'm doing the whole blog 8 oz it's a
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yummy topping for the soup adds is a
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creaminess got some tortilla strips this
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is like a Salad Topping we're going to
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put it on top of our soup it's
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tricolored okay the soup is done o it
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good we're going to put some cheese on
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top definitely some tortilla chips these
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strips you can find them in the salad
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section where they have croutons and
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bacon bits they have these right there
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and then I'm going to top it with a
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little bit of parsley or cilantro or
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want here's my bowl I'm going to grab a
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spoon give it a try for you here's my
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mhm wow it's nice and warm got a
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comforting feel to the
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soup that cheese adds a nice creaminess
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to it those tortilla strips they add a
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crunch all right you guys remember that
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this recipe came out of my first
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cookbook making home cooking simple easy
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and delicious it's the blue book you can
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find these on my recipe blog katherine.
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where you can also find the taco
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seasoning blend and also the ranch
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blend and the rest recipe for the taco
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soup all right give me a thumbs up on
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this one y'all I will see yall on the