This homemade kid friendly taco seasoning is easy to make, and has no hidden preservatives.
This mild taco seasoning recipe is perfect for kids who don’t like things too spicy, and tasty enough for the whole family to enjoy! You can easily adjust the recipe to make it suit your kids and your family, and it’s made from spices you probably already have in the cupboard.
This kid-friendly taco seasoning recipe is perfect for family taco night!
My kids could eat tacos every night of the week and never tire of them.
Actually I probably could too.
Wrap anything in a tortilla and we are a happy little family!
Tacos made a great family dinner because they are easy to make, budget friendly, and you can easily adjust the recipe to suit your family. That means I can add spinach when I’m worried we are lacking in leafy greens, we can make homemade guacamole when avocados are on special, and I can add grated zucchini when we’ve grown way more than we could ever eat!
Tacos are also a perfect kid-friendly meal because the kids can each build their own tacos, adding just the ingredients that they like, that makes them perfect for picky eaters, and people with allergies.
It’s easy to grab a packet of store bought taco seasoning to make your tacos, but those seasoning packets can have a long list of not so great ingredients, they can be expensive, and some kids might find them too spicy, but it’s really easy to make your own homemade, kid friendly taco seasoning for your next taco night!
If you are looking for more delicious taco options try one of these taco toppings for your taco bar.
How to Make Homemade Kid-friendly Taco Seasoning.
Making your own homemade taco seasoning is super easy, and your kids probably won’t even notice the difference between homemade and store bought. I was sure my kids would turn up their noses at my first attempt at homemade taco seasoning, but they didn’t even notice, so I’ve been making it myself ever since.
The great thing about making your own taco seasoning is that you can make it the way you like it! Over the years I’ve tweaked this kid friendly taco seasoning to add a little to add more of this, or less that, to get it just the way my kids like it. So this is my basic, kid-friendly, taco seasoning recipe, it’s a good place to start but feel free to change it to suit your tastes.
Kid Friendly Mild Taco Seasoning
This mild, kid friendly taco seasoning is easy to make, and is perfect for family taco night.
Ingredients
- 2 tsp chili powder - more or less depending on how how you like it
- 3 tsp garlic powder
- 2 tsp onion powder
- 3 tsp ground cumin
- 3 tsp mixed herbs - Thyme, Rosemary, Marjoram, Basil, Oregano, Sage.
- 3 tsp sweet paprika
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp corn flour (corn starch)
Instructions
- Mix well and store in a sealed container.
- Add as much or as little seasoning as you like to your choice of meat or vegetable base.
Notes
You can easily adjust this recipe to suit your tastes. Add or remove any herb or spice as you like.
Please note: this recipe uses Australian measurements and temperatures, if you need to convert measurements or temperatures you can find our printable cooking conversion chart here.
My kids like soft tortillas with their tacos, and lots of them, but those things are expensive, and there are often lot of additives and preservatives in the ingredients list, so once I had mastered our kid-friendly taco seasoning I decided to have a go at making my own tortillas too.
How to Make Homemade Soft Flour Tortillas
Making your own flour tortillas is a little more work than the taco seasoning, but it’s not difficult. It takes a bit of time, but there is no yeast and no waiting to rise, just lots of rolling out little circles. If you happen to have a tortilla press then it’s even easier!
You need to eat these homemade tortillas pretty soon after you cook them, but you can warm them a little in the oven or microwave if you cook them a little ahead of time. Unfortunately they don’t keep well, in fact mine go hard and rather like cardboard by the next day, but that’s ok, there’s never any left anyway!
Soft Flour Tortillas
These homemade soft flour tortillas are easy to make a delicious!
Ingredients
- 4 cups of flour
- 1 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 cup of cold butter or olive oil.
- 1 – 1 1/4 cup water
Instructions
- In the bowl of your food processor, with blade attached, combine the flour, salt and baking powder.
- If you are using butter cut it into small cubes and add it to the food processor.
- If you are using oil add it to the water before you add it to the dry ingredients.
- Give the food processor a quick pulse to combine the ingredients and cut up the butter even more, then add a little water and give it another quick pulse.
- Keep adding water and pulsing until the mixture begins to come together to form a dough, making sure you scrape down the sides as you go.
- Test the dough by giving it a good poke... you are looking for a firm springy dough, a little like pastry dough. Add more water if needed but be careful not to add too much.
- You can also mix by hand and knead well for a little while until you get a smooth pliable ball of dough.
- If you have time wrap the dough and pop it in the fridge for 20 minutes. Cooling it will make it easier to roll out.
- Divide the dough into around 12 balls, more or less, depending on how big you want your tortillas to be.
- On a well floured surface, roll the dough out into large circles, the thinner the better, and set aside.
- Heat a frying pan over a medium heat, once hot, brush with a little oil and pop a tortilla into the pan and cook till you see it start to bubble and puff up, then flip it over and cook the other side.
- Place cooked tortillas on a plate and cover with a damp tea-towel to keep them nice and soft.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 12 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 52Total Fat: 1g
It’s funny how it seemed so difficult to make these two simple things from scratch, until I actually gave it a go. Now I can easily make mild taco seasoning that I know my kids will love, and that doesn’t have any questionable ingredients, and a stack of fluffy soft flour tortillas!
Are you a taco lover?
Do you ever make your own?
What other things do you like to make from scratch?
Hi Kate, I’ve just had a lovely time visiting your blog. My kids would eat tacos every night also and I laughed at the too mainstream to be a hippy and too hippy to be mainstream. That’s me to a T. Thanks for an enjoyable afternoon. Alison
Yum, Kate! I have been making my own seasoning because of all the salt and crap in the store bought stuff, but I haven’t tried to make my own tortillas yet. My boys eat heaps too, so I might have to try them out next time – you’ve inspired me!
I’m seriously going to be bookmarking your ‘from scratch’ recipes! We love tacos and tortillas!
I love this post! I have often thought to try making taco seasoning and have never tried…thank you this has inspired me to give it a go finally!
That was totally me….
I would see a taco seasoning recipe on pinterest and pin it… for… you know… one day. I finally got around to making it when I discovered way too late I didn’t have any store bought stuff and it was so easy, wish I’d done it much sooner!
This is fantastic – our household is taco mad too but we usually have it as a special treat, this way it could be a normal meal. Thanks Kate!
Wow! I am so in love with my made-from-scratch pizza base at the moment, that I’m tempted to give the tortillas a go now too.
The Circus eats at least two packets of the store bought ones in a sitting, and they have quite a few nasties in there, which two of my clowns are not supposed to eat…
Plus it is heaps cheaper to make my own!
I can’t wait for your next cooking-from-scratch installment! :)
xx
Oh wow! Heidi has all the ingredients to make Taco Seasoning in the spice rack she got for her birthday (well if we count paprika instead of chilli powder).
I foresee taco seasoning cooking in our future.
Although being honest, we generally eat Taco’s without the seasoning.
I have thought about trying the tortilla’s from scratch before as their not very cheap – but never followed through but this seems quite simple – I’ve decided to give it a go. I do already do a similar taco seasoning that I’m happy with so this meal is getting cheaper!
We are a big turkey taco family and I cringe when I look at the ingredients to simple store bought taco seasoning. I am definitely going to try the seasoning, but am slightly intimidated by the tortillas. Baby steps…:) Thanks for this!
That looks amazing! I’m so impressed!
Hi Kate,
I love the homemade tortilla idea, will be trying that one soon! We’re actually having Mexican tonight. Just to clarify, you don’t add oil to the pan to cook them, do you? Yours don’t look like they’ve been cooked in oil, but I wasn’t sure.
Mmm, you’ve got me hungry for dinner now!
Oh no… I should have said that I cook mine in a huge old cast iron pan so I sometimes give it a quick wipe over with some olive oil after every few tortillas, but if you were using a non-stick pan you wouldn’t need to do that at all.
Yum!!
Fzntastic, thanks! I substituted one cup of white flour for whole wheat, to increase the fibre content. Scrummy!!
I made these with gluten-free bread mix (Laucke brand) and they turned out wonderfully. We haven’t had tacos in months because its impossible to find gluten free tortillas that are any good without it costing $2 per tortilla. This makes it such a delicious and cheap meal, and I can eat it too! Thanks Kate!
Hi there,
Just wanted to let you know we tried your taco seasoning recipe and couldn’t believe how easy it was! And how yummy and like the ‘real thing’. The chilli knocked our socks off a bit (we too have 4 kids with a set of twins in there, boys though) and although we love the spice, the kids were not so keen. But I will just tone that down for next time – cause there will definitely be a next time! I think I will work up to the tortillas though:)
Thanks!
Hi Kate, just checking out your recipe as recommended by Janelle from Me & Mia. I make my own taco seasoning and tortillas too but I’ll try out your recipe. I’m keen to check out all your recipes now.
Oooo – my husband just said that he wanted to try to make tortillas. We’ll have to give your recipe a go!
Thank you for this! I can’t wait to make them!
Hi Kate,
Did you know that this tortilla dough also makes fabulous lavosh-style crackers? A while back I made the tortillas for burritos and had a few leftover (I know, leftovers, seems unlikely, but we are a smaller family!), so cut them into wedges and toasted in the oven. They were extremely yummy and very popular here, which set me wondering if the tortilla step could be skipped. Finally got my act together to try it today, and it works! Rolled dough out in a pasta machine, cut into rectangles, pricked with a fork and sprinkled with salt, and baked at 210ish degrees C. Yum!
Wow, this meal official makes you a super mama! So fresh and all home made. Lovely.