Taco Bell Burrito Supreme (Copycat) is an easy make at home recipe for one of Taco Bell’s best menu items. With beans, beef, red sauce and cheddar cheese.
This easy Copycat Recipe is ready in under 10 minutes, and is perfect for packed lunches. Made with easy Taco Bell Red Sauce, and you can even make your own Taco Bell ground beef and Homemade Refried Beans.
TACO BELL BURRITO SUPREME (COPYCAT)
The Burrito Supreme just might be the best thing at Taco Bell, and thanks to this recipe you can have it from the comfort of your own home. There’s no need to order take-out or go to the drive-thru. Just cook them up fresh so they’re even better than the flavorful burritos you’re used to.
Taco Bell Burrito Supremes have everything you could want and an easy bean burrito. Seasoned ground beef, refried beans, red sauce, onion, lettuce, sour cream, tomato and cheddar cheese make it crunchy, creamy, and bursting with flavor. Plus, making it at home means you can swap ingredients out, try some add-ins and experiment as much as you want.
Burritos are the perfect make-ahead meal. You can keep them in the freezer for an easy lunch to grab and take on the go.
HOW TO WARM UP TORTILLAS
When you warm tortillas in the microwave they can get dried out and less pliable. If you wrap the tortillas in a wet paper towel it gives enough moisture so they won’t get so dry. You can also use this trick to reheat leftover burritos or quesadillas before eating them.
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MAKE-AHEAD BURRITO SUPREME
- Start by cooking your refried beans, ground beef, and Taco Bell Red Sauce.
- Lay out 6 squares of tin foil that are large enough to wrap the finishes Burrito Supremes.
- Put the flour tortillas onto each of the tin foil squares.
- Spread refried beans over each tortilla then add ground beef, red sauce, onions, lettuce, sour cream, cheese, and diced tomatoes.
- Fold up each burrito, then wrap them tightly in the tin foil.
- Write the date on the tin foil so you’ll know when the burritos are good until. They’ll keep well in the freezer for up 3 months.
- When you’re ready to reheat the burrito unwrap the tin foil, wrap each burrito in a damp paper towel and microwave it for 2-3 minutes.

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VARIATIONS ON TACO BELL BURRITO SUPREME (COPYCAT)
- Meat: Instead of using ground beef you can try making a chicken burrito, use ground turkey or steak slices.
- Cheese: You can change up the cheese by using shredded Swiss, pepper Jack, provolone, or mozzarella cheese.
- Bean: If you don’t want to use refried beans try out black beans, pinto beans, or kidney beans.
- Add-ons: For more add-ons try seasoning with garlic powder, chili powder onion powder, and paprika. You could also add extra ingredients like nacho cheese, olives, and peppers.
- Lighter Beef Burrito Supreme: To make a Beef Burrito Supreme with less calories try using lean ground beef, reduced-fat sour cream, and low-fat cheese.
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7-Layer Burrito:
- Lay out your flour tortilla and spread refried beans over the top.
- Add a ¼ cup Mexican Rice over the top.
- Spoon 2 tablespoons sour cream on top.
- Add ⅓ cup shredded lettuce.
- Top with 2 tablespoons shedded pepper jack cheese.
- Next add 2 tablespoons of guacamole.
- Top the whole thing with diced tomatoes and wrap up the tortilla.
Quesarito:
- Cook Taco Bell Ground Beef.
- Cook some white rice according to the package instructions.
- Lay out one tortilla on a microwave-safe plate then sprinkle cheddar cheese over it, and top it with another tortilla.
- Put a wet paper towel over the tortillas and microwave them for 15 seconds or until the cheese is melted.
- Add rice, then ground beef, more shredded cheese, sour cream, and guacamole to the tortilla.
- Fold the ends of the tortillas and roll them up.
Shredded Chicken Burrito:
- Combine ½ avocado, ⅛ cup ranch dressing, ⅛ cup buttermilk, a few pinches salt, 2 tablespoons sour cream in a blender.
- Cook boneless skinless chicken breasts in a skillet. Add 2 cans of tomato sauce, cover and cook for 20 minutes. Once it’s done shred the chicken.
- In a sauce pan cook 1 cup long grain white rice, 2 cups chicken broth, salt, pepper, lime zest, 2 tablespoons cilantro, and 1 teaspoon cumin. Bring it to a boil then reduce the heat and leave covered until he rice is ready.
- Warm 6 tortillas in the microwave covered in wet paper towels.
- Spread ranch dressing over the tortilla.
- Layer chicken, then rice, then top with cheddar cheese.
- Roll up the burrito and repeat for the other five.
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HOW TO STORE TACO BELL BURRITO SUPREME
- Serve: Don’t leave your burritos at room temperature for more than 2 hours.
- Store: You can keep your Taco Bell Burrito Supreme in the fridge for 3-4 days.
- Freeze: The burritos will also stay good in the fridge for up to 3 months.


Ingredients
- 1 pound ground beef , (80/20)
- 4 cups water
- 1 recipe Taco Bell Seasoning , Recipe below
- 3 cups refried beans
- 6 burrito sized flour tortillas
- 1 cup Taco Bell Red Sauce
- 1/4 yellow onion , minced
- 1 cup lettuce
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 cup cheddar cheese , finely shredded
- 1 vine tomato , diced
Instructions
- Add ground beef to a large pot with the water.
- Bring to a boil and using a potato masher, mash the ground beef until completely broken apart.
- Add in the Taco Bell Taco Seasoning mix and stir well.
- Cook until the liquid is reduced.
- Wrap tortillas in damp paper towels and microwave for 20 seconds on 50% power.
- Top each tortilla with refried beans, ground beef, Taco Bell red sauce, onions, lettuce, sour cream, cheddar cheese and tomatoes.
- Fold in the top and bottom and wrap tightly before serving.
Notes
1 teaspoon cornstarch
1 teaspoon garlic salt
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon paprika
1 teaspoon chili powder
¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
¼ teaspoon white sugar Mix ingredients together before adding to your pan.
This tastes EXACTLY like Taco Bell burrito supremes from the 80s. It’s delicious!! I can’t stress how delicious this is!
Love it! Thank you Julie and thanks for the five star review.
Hi! My husband and I made this tonight, and he and his dad are sooo happy! Little background.. I’m an American, and moved to Australia 15 years ago. I’d talked about Taco Bell, and never dreamed they’d come here. Well, a couple of years ago, they opened in Perth (our closest big city), and my husband and I stayed in one of our fave hotels. Turned out Taco Bell delivered there!
Long story short, my husband got two of these burritos with shredded chicken and inhaled the things! Dad has never had them, so I went on a hunt and found this recipe 🙂 Very easy to make, very easy to eat 🙂
Thank you so much for this recipe! We actually didn’t put onion in, and used El Paso Taco Seasoning. We don’t cook with onion because our old girl loves to pre-wash plates and at her age, we just make sure nothing is in things that would hurt her 🙂
Thanks for sharing your story with us. So glad you enjoyed the recipe!
I’ve tried this recipe before and it tastes just like the Burrito Supreme from the 1980s. You can’t get that from Taco Bell anymore, what they make is nothing like what it used to be. That being said, this recipe is missing one important ingredient, black olives.
Very good!
Thanks Liz and thanks for the 5 stars!
This is a keeper! I followed the recipe as directed and made the seasoning, sauce, and beans. Fabulous!
Going to try this. Curious – I’ve never seen a recipe that says to cook the ground beef with water – is there a reason? Definitely going to try this. Going to make the red sauce right now. Thank s for your work and for sharing!
Some do add water to ground beef as it cooks to retain the moisture. This can be done with leaner cuts of beef to keep it moist since there isn’t much fat. The water can also make it easier to break up the meat as it cooks. If you’re looking for tiny crumbles of ground beef, water can also help. Hope this answers your question.
I always cook my ground beef with a bit of water. It’s not so greasy and/or dried out that way. Just enough water so that it evaorates by the time the ground beef is cooked. Try it, you’ll like it. My daughters and granddaughters like it that way also and cook it that way for their families.
Thanks for the tip Feisty Granny! Enjoy!
Picky Husband APPROVED! Yummy, fun, easy dinner!
Sabrina, I keep checking back. I was hoping the link worked for the Taco Bell seasoning recipe? Can you please post it again or email to me? I would really love to make it.
Hi Marilyn, I’m so sorry for that, I added the recipe to the bottom of the recipe card for you.
Hi there, you forgot the sliced black olives. if it’s a copycat recipe you got to have it all.
There are no sliced black olives in the burrito supreme.
There used to be. When they made it back in the 1980s, it had black olives.
Hi Sabrina, Do you still have a recipe for the Taco Bell seasoning? The current one no longer works. (Thank you!!)
Super excited to try it but the link to the Taco Bell Seasoning doesn’t work.
Delicious. I devoured this tonight.
Alissa do you have the recipe for the taco meat?
The link to Taco Bell Seasoning doesn’t work. I got all excited for nothing.
Thank you for the heads up! Working to fix it now :)!
Sabrina…I am new to your site and it seems like the link to the copycat Taco Bell Taco Seasoning link isn’t working again. Would you be able to send it? Thank you!
Omg I am loving these recipes! Thank you for putting in the Taco Bell ground beef instructions since the link wasn’t working properly! Can you add in the Taco Bell seasoning, the link doesn’t seem to work for that one either?
Hi! Thank you for letting me know, working to fix it now!
Freeze lettece??? No! I would add it after the have thawed, if you freeze them.
You could do it that way if you want. Hope you enjoy it!