Look, I don’t know. Food is fun and sometimes you just need to play with it. We’re going with Taco Thursday this week instead of Tuesday. So here we have these Air Fried Taco Stuffed Shells which are pretty much exactly what they sound like. Taco meat and cheese stuffed into some pasta shells and then fried for a quick and easy finger-food small bite of taco goodness.

The first thing I did here was to use a lean ground beef, but you can also go with ground turkey or even a vegetarian ground faux meat. I added onion and bell pepper to the meat along with taco seasoning to stretch the meat out and get a bit more bang for my buck here.

These air fried shells are perfect for dipping and dunking in your favorite salsa, guac, or queso. And they’re a great finger food to serve as an appetizer, for game day, or even as a main part of a meal. The cheese ends up melty and gooey gooey on the inside and these end up being more like 2-3 bite tacos with the pasta getting just a little crunch to them when fried.

I served mine with salsa and we ended up having a snacky grab-and-go sort of dinner.

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