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If you love Chalupas from Taco Bell, you will love this Homemade Mexican Chalupas recipe!

Homemade Mexican Chalupas Recipe

Learn to make Homemade Chalupas by making this crisp and soft dough from scratch.

When I was younger I worked at a few fast food places. The first place I worked was at McDonald’s. I remember when I aced the interview and was hired on the spot! To me, that was one step closer to financial freedom. I also worked for Subway and Taco Bell. Although there are a lot of negative feelings associated with working in fast food, when you are a teenager the one perk you look forward to when working at a fast-food restaurant is the free meal you get during your shift. When working at all three of those restaurants, I tried just about everything on the menus that I could.

I had my favorites at all three, but at Taco Bell I loved Chalupas!

Homemade Mexican Chalupas Recipe
What I loved the most about Chalupas is the bread itself. I mean, it’s almost like donuts just without the glaze if you think about it. It’s fried dough just like a donut, right? That would make so much sense as to why I like them so much. You know what? Making the chalupa dough is super easy and only takes a few basic ingredients.

All you need is

  • Flour
  • Milk
  • Salt
  • Shortening
  • Baking powder

How to make the dough to chalupas

Mix all of those ingredients into a ball of dough and you have the basis for the chalupa bread. Of course, you divide the dough and fry it as you normally would. You will then fill the chalupa bread with your favorite taco fillings such as ground beef, chicken, or steak and lettuce, cheese, tomatoes, and sour cream! You can fill the chalupas with whatever you want. This Homemade Mexican Chalupas recipe allows you to be as versatile as you want. You can fry the chalupa bread and set out different toppings and let everyone serve themselves.

Homemade Chalupas
Making the Chalupa bread is quite simple. After you have divided and rolled out the dough, you place half of the dough in heavy-duty skillets, like a cast-iron skillet, and allow it to fry for about a minute. Then you flip the dough and allow the other side to fry, which should make for a nice curved chalupa shell. I won’t lie, you won’t get them all right, but you will get a few curved the way you like.

I watched this video to learn how to make chalupa bread and this one. They both were helpful.

Homemade Chalupas
This Homemade Mexican Chalupas recipe one copycat recipe that is my personal favorite. I don’t have a lot of copycat recipes on my blog but between this Copycat Taco Bell Chalupa recipe and the ones I have, which are Copycat Chocolate Hostess Cupcakes and Copycat White Castle Burgers, this chalupas recipe comes close to being as identical to the true version. I hope you like this recipe as much as I did eating them.  

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Homemade Mexican Chalupas Recipe

Homemade Mexican Chalupas Recipe

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  • Author: Nicole Nared-Washington from Brown Sugar Food Blog
  • Prep Time: 10 mins
  • Cook Time: 30 mins
  • Total Time: 40 mins
  • Yield: 8 1x
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Description

If you like Taco Bell’s Chalupas you will love this Homemade Chalupas Recipe that you can make at home! The bread is easy to make and fill with whatever you want!

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Ingredients

  • 2 ¼ c. flour
  • 1 tbsp. Baking powder
  • ½ tsp. Salt
  • 1 oz. shortening
  • 1 c. milk
  • Canola oil, for frying
  • 1 lb. ground beef, cooked
  • Sharp cheddar cheese
  • Lettuce
  • Diced tomatoes
  • Sour cream
  • Taco sauce

Instructions

  1. Heat the oil in a heavy duty shallow skillet such as a cast iron skillet.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, add the flour, baking powder, salt, and shortening. Use a fork to mix the ingredients together. Pour the milk into the dry ingredients. Use a wooden spoon to mix ingredients in with the milk to form a ball of dough.
  3. Turn dough onto a floured surface and roll until smooth. Mold the dough into a loaf about 8 inches. Divide the dough in half, then into fourths. See the picture above. Roll each individual section into a ball and roll out the small ball of dough into a round circle about 4-5 inches wide.
  4. Use tong and carefully dip half of the chalupa dough into the hot oil. Once that half of the dough has begun to fry up but not quite brown, flip the chalupa bread with the other half of the dough frying in the oil. This is if you want to try to have the chalupas have the dip on the bottom for your fillings. If it doesn’t matter to you, just fry on both sides for 2 minutes until golden brown and remove from oil onto cooling rack lined with paper towels.
  5. Fill your chalupas with beef, lettuce, cheese, tomatoes, and a dollop of sour cream. Top with taco sauce if desired.
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  1. eatfrysmith says

    This sounds very good, I started to go to the kitchen when my wife gave birth to her first child, indeed the first time was very difficult to get to know, I wandered on blogs, read about recipes, I knew about blogs Your also from here. I find inspiration with what you share
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  9. Bridget says

    Chalupas are my favorite thing to eat at taco bell and I have been looking for a recipe I’m so glad I found you can’t wait to try them. Thanks they look delicious

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  11. Brenda Keena says

    Nicole, I made your chalupas last night for dinner!! They were very easy to make, the recipe was so easy to follow👍🏼They were absolutely delicious!! Light and Crispy on the outside yet chewy on the inside❤️Amy husband and I absolutely loved them, a lot of happy tummy sighs during dinner!! I won’t be able to eat Taco Bell’s chalupas again!! Thanks for sharing your recipe, I’ll be making these a lot not only for us but for family n friends!!I tried to give you 5 stars but it would only allow me to do 4🤷🏼‍♀️

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  14. Mae Moore says

    I’ve made these like 4 times in the past month. They are yummy and a family favorite.

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  15. Mallory says

    My husband said now does she have a recipe for the Baja sauce ;). Trying this out tomorrow for taco Tuesday.

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  18. Betty Davis says

    You can make this with self rising flour. Just use a 1 to 2 formula. 2 cups flour to 1 cup milk. Stir together. If too thin add small amounts of flour to thicken it up until it easily stirs into a sticky ball.Place on floured surface. Fold over each side (knead) on floured surface. Let rest about 2 to 5 minutes. Divide into equal pieces. Roll pieces into circles and quickly deep fry. This easier recipe will make the above chalupa shells. You also can add sugar to the mix and fry it up then season as you desire for elephant ears. You can top it with Mexican inspired ingredients or eat with jams or jellies. You can literally make it with 2 tblsp self rising flour and 1 tblsp milk if you just want to make one.

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  19. Alicia Scott says

    Can you provide the exact recipe we need to mix in a bowl and how many it would make ?
    I see ingredients but how many does this make?
    Thank you !!

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  20. Deanna L Silva says

    I love the Chalupas at Taco Bell!!! I am definitely going to try this recipe. Thanks for sharing it!

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