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Ortega Skillet Sauces (Available in Taco, Fajita and Cilantro and Green Chile)
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About this product
Ortega Skillet Sauces are a new way to season proteins for Mexican dishes at home. Available in Fajita (chicken), Taco (ground beef), and Cilantro & Green Chile (Seafood) flavors. All come in a 7 oz. self standing pouch.
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The Ortega Taco sauce was absolutely delicious!
The Ortega Taco sauce was a great purchase. It was easy to use and had a wonderful flavor. My family asked me to purchase and use this product again! I highly recommend this product!
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My kids said dinner tasted like authentic Mexican
It took awhile for me to find this product on the shelf. But once I did, WooHOO! Unfortunately, the taco skillet sauce looks very similar to all of the other 'taco/Mexican' products on the shelf. But once I found it and used it, we were happily surprised. The taco skillet sauce masked the fact that I was tricking the kids with ground turkey (instead of beef) and I LOVED that the recipe requires chopped onions and peppers while browning the meat (optional, but great for our family.) Dinner was finished in no time, and the family happily ate lean turkey tacos once again.
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Tasty, easy to use, but not the best value
It was easy to open up and add to my skillet to make a tasty burrito filling. It's too bad it says to use beef, because it would work great with vegetarian options too (I tried tofu, which tasted great). But it's a bit overpriced for a seasoned sauce.
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It was delicious!
I love this product. It was easy to use and so good. I prefer this sauce over the powder that I've been using all these years. It was sweet and spicy. I would and want to buy it again.
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Could Be Better
Ortega Skillet Sauces is an easier way of infusing your protein with Mexican spices. It is ambitious in that the Ortega Skillet Sauces are supposed to be the only flavoring, but sadly, it falls short of its potential. Ortega Skillet Sauces are bland, not tasting like much of anything. I can't really name many of the spices in it. There's not even a tomato taste underlying it, it's just a bag of bland. Skip Ortega Skillet Sauces and pick up a seasoning packet.
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Disappointingly Bland
I really wanted to like Ortega Skillet Sauces because it looked more convenient than the regular pre-seasoned packets where you have to guess on how much liquid is enough. However, the Ortega Skillet Sauces is just bland. If I didn't have the package in front of me, I wouldn't know that it was supposed to be taco flavored at all. It tastes very faintly of what someone's idea of Mexican food is, but then watered down any hint of real flavor and authenticity. I cooked the taco Ortega Skillet Sauces with ground beef and everyone ate it so it's not as if it's so bad that it's inedible. It's just that the Ortega Skillet Sauces didn't stand out very much and I felt as if I didn't add any flavor to the meat.
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Different type of skillet taco sauce
I was interested in trying this product as my family enjoys tacos and a good taco sauce. I am used to using a powder product that water is added to so this was a different type of product. I was not expecting the sauce to be in a pouch. I found this product easy to use and it had a good taste.
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It goes SOOOO well with shrimp.
I followed the recipe on the back of thepackage and the result turned out so good.
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Nice mild heat in the taco flavor.
I really like how this sauce was all in one. I did not have to deal with powder or adding any water. It seemed to be ready faster, and it had a great flavor.
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Easy to use, for a fast meal that tastes great
This packet of sauce smells great right out of the package I used the fajita style and it was great. Thinly sliced steak, thinly sliced red, yellow and orange peppers along with the sauce and it's ready in no time. Just place in a tortilla add some chips and salsa on the side and dinner is served.
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Great item that made dinner easy
I loved this product. It had a great flavor and helped make dinner prep very easy. It didn't taste like it came in a bag!
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Delicious and so easy to use
The skillet sauce was delicious. It was extremely easy to make a quick meal that tasted great and my family loved.
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Tasty with rice and beans!
As a vegetarian, I mixed this sauce with black beans and rice instead of meat. Though I like to cook with fresh veggies, this sauce provides a great option when I'm too busy to shop, and it cooks up really quickly with beans. Served it over rice with a little sour cream, and it tasted great!
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Taco Night Every Night Now!
I love how easy Ortega Skillet sauce was for making dinner. Just add the protein then Ortega Skillet sauce then dinner is done! The spices smelled really nice and fresh, but the consistency of the sauce is a little watery so definitely simmer the protein in the Ortega skillet sauce for a bit. My GF thought I learned something from the Food Network because dinner looked so professional! The Ortega skillet sauce had an excellent flavor that impressed her!
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Convient to use great taste
This product was easy to use. It had a great flavor. I just wish it was a little spicier. It mixes well into the meat. It helps make a quick dinner even easier.
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Easy to make
It tastes decent I would use it again. It doesn't take a lot of time to cook either.
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Easy to make and tasty to eat
My girlfriend and I enjoy Mexican food and we enjoy having tacos and nachos at home. Because we are not industrious enough to make our own taco spices (because we cannot get the measurements correct), we typically buy powdered taco spice. We were pretty excited to purchase this liquid one, but we're a little confused why it cost so much more than the powdered kind. While powdered packages aren't hard to make, they are a little annoying to have to measure and add water, and this takes out that middle step. For busy families and couples, this would be perfect eliminate a step or two. The taste was a little more tomatoey than the powdered kind and the price was a little steep, but it is undeniable that it is faster to make. Definitely tasty, but if you are on a budget then you should stick with the powdered kind because the taste is not significantly better to warrant the higher price.
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Very good packaging
The skillet sauce made it quick and easy for fajitas. Very happy with the taste and ease of the product.
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Ortega Taco sauce rocks
We make tacos on a regular basis using the dry packets to season the beef. This time, we used the liquid sauce packet of Ortega taco seasoning. The taste was great (as expected- it's hard to mess up typical taco seasoning) and the liquid form made dinner prep just a little easier. The dry packets are still cheaper but this product is great for those wanting to save even one minute of their time. Excellent product!
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Simple, easy and tasty!
I used the taco pouch for taco night. It was so easy to open the pouch and pour the sauce right in. No mixing or extra dishes to wash. The flavor was delicious! Good spice and full of the taco flavor we associate with Ortega. The chunks of tomato we found in the sauce were a pleasant surprise. We would use the pouches again as we didn't notice any sacrifice in flavor!
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Not bad
This product I thought would be easier to use then then powder mix I usually get. However, the packet , which serves 4, didn't seem to coat the beef with enough seasoning. The flavor was a bit on the salty side as well.
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Very good taste & easy to use.
This product was so much easier to use than the usual dry powder seasoning packets. The resulting meat sauce was very creamy and blended very well with the meat. Overall the family liked the heat level; my daughter who likes spicier food just added some hot sauce.
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Good, quick meal night accessory
Ortega is a brand we use around the home on a regular basis. They offer fairly classic flavors and ease of use. The Ortega Skillet Sauce Taco Flavor Seasoning for Ground Beef offer an easy to use and flavorful product. Easy to open. Quick to cook. Flavoring offered a slightly sweet and slight tomato paste flavoring to the ground beef. Just hints of spice that will satisfy anyone in the household. I would recommend for quick weeknight meals when you want something hearty but with easy cleanup.
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Simple, easy, and delicious taco skillet sauce
This is so easy to prepare! I just browned up the meat and added sauce. It is as simple and easy as it gets. The finished meal smells wonderful and looks great. The package is small but it definitely contains enough sauce for the amount of meat recommended. Must have for quick meal. I only tried taco flavor. I'll definitely try fajita, and cilantro & green chile flavor in the future.
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Easy to prepare
This adds a little spice to your ground beef dish or taco meat. It is easy to add to the meat but I believe I prefer the dried seasoning add in better and it is just as easy as well as less cost. I could not find this on store selves, had to order from Walmart.com
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This was an Ok product
I purchased Ortega Skillet Sauce taco flavor at my local Wal-mart. I had high hopes for the product as Ortega always has high quality products that taste great. This Skillet sauce didn't deliver though. It stated to use with 1lb of ground beef with I did, but there seemed to not be enough sauce in the pouch for a whole pound of ground beef to flavor the whole pound. My first thought upon opening the pouch was that it oddly smelled like sloppy joe mix, sadly it tasted a bit like sloppy joe as well. I usually make tacos with refried beans but thought against it as I was trying this product. So I just tried this product in a shell with cheese. There wasn't a whole lot of flavor to it and I was really a bit disappointed in the product. I mentioned to my husband it might be good mixed into some rice or something with the ground beef.
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Super easy and delicious!
We're not the kind of family who reserves one night a week for a taco night; we maybe have tacos 3 to 4 times a year. When we did in the past, we either used a taco seasoning packet for the meat or mixed up a few spices we had at home to make do. I saw the Ortega skillet sauce in the store and decided to give it a try - I bought the 'Taco' one. This was SO easy to use! I just browned up the hamburger, added this sauce, and boom! The meat was done. I know, not much different from the flavor seasoning packet, BUT, this one also seems to have a taco sauce flavor. It saves the extra work of having to add taco sauce AND the seasoning packet. It's super convenient! I will warn users to be careful when opening the packet - mine splattered all over my face. I'll use scissors next time (no, I wasn't squeezing the package when I ripped it open). In summary, this skillet sauce is delicious, super easy to prepare and a hit at our house! We'll be buying this again the next time we have tacos!
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Easy tasty
I liked this product because it was easy to use. All I had to do was pour it into the pan with the beef and stir! It was nice that it was liquid as opposed to dry seasoning because it created a juicy texture which was delicious in the taco! The flavour was really good however I found that it a bit saltier than I would prefer.
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Delicious!
This product tasted really good! It was super easy to prepare - just add any kind of meat, even though the recipe says beef - I usually use turkey, and it's as simple as that!
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Not my taste
I recently tried the Ortega skillet taco sauce and I was not impressed. Overall the concept is good but the product is just awful. Maybe it's just me but I am not a fan of a tomato-based taco sauce or this product just had way too much of a tomato flavor. It was like I needed to pour this sauce over pasta instead of using it for tacos. Not only was the taste bad there just wasn't enough sauce in the pack in my opinion. If you were just using this sauce your taco meat would be dry. Overall great idea but it needs a better taco sauce recipe for me to even consider buying this ever again.
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Ortega Taco Skillet Sauce makes taco easy and fast
Ortega Taco Skillet Sauce made making tacos a breeze. I didn't have to measure out water to add. I just added the packet, mixed it up and heated it up....dinner is done! The taco skillet sauce added flavor and was fast, but I didn't feel that it added ENOUGH flavor. It could have used a bit more taco seasoning flavor. But, I did like that it had pieces of tomato and bell pepper in it! It made it feel more homemade, for a fraction of the time. I would recommend this to someone who doesn't have much time, but wants a home cooked meal that feels like it took longer to make. If you like your food spicy or very taco seasoned, I would add more seasoning to your taste.
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It was a different and better
I used this product to flavor chop meat for a taco type dish I was making. Packaging was a bit difficult to get all the sauce out, perhaps a jar would be better. The quantity was really only enough for a few, you would need several pkgs for a family. The taste was quite good although the sugar in the product could have been omitted as it was noticeable. It was quite an easy product to use and we enjoyed eating it.
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Quick, easy and delicious skillet sauce
I found this skillet sauce to be easy to use and delicious. All you have to do is add this sauce to cooked ground meat and veggies and you have a great meal. We loved the flavor of this taco sauce, well seasoned but not to spicy. This sauce makes making tacos simple and delicious.
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This is an easy way to get dinner on the table!
I recently tried the Ortega Skillet Sauces in Fajita flavor. I chose fajita because I love fajitas! The sauce comes in a pouch, and is easy to tear open. You pour the sauce directly onto the food you are cooking (in s skillet) and heat it in the sauce. For our quick dinner, we made chicken fajitas with onions, and peppers. I like that this sauce is convenient-you do not need to measure any spices and you have a flavorful addition to your cooking. I thought the spices smelled nice, were easy to add and made my dinner preparation a lot easier. This was not my favorite flavor, I would prefer more lime and a deeper chipotle flavor. But, it was easy, it did taste good and we certainly gobbled up the fajitas. I think these pouches would be great to have on hand to help make dinner simpler, quicker and yummy! I recommend the Ortega Skillet Sauces and I will be trying out the other flavors!
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Decent skillet sauce
This was pretty good skillet sauce, I made it exactly as directed. My 3 year old son said it was "too hot", but I thought it was an okay temperature.
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Simple and Delicious
The Ortega skillet sauce is very easy to use and really tasty. Use your own ingredients or try the recommendation on package. Cook time was very quick. Food turned out perfect with enough for leftovers.
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Quick to use
I was really impressed with the fact that this skillet sauce was so easy to use and also really had great flavor. I used it to make tacos and it saved me time by being already made. I will be using again since the whole family loved it
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Super easy taco mix
I usually buy the powdered mixes for tacos. I thought they were cheaper, but the prices keep going up. It's nice to find a liquid product that you add to the cooked meat and and veggies. It makes a delicious taco mix that you add right into your soft or crunchy taco shells. Just add your favorite toppings like lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese! I have always purchased Ortega products and now I will buy this one too. Try it and you will like it too!
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Convenient Skillet Sauce
Overall, Ortega Skillet Sauce was a very convenient seasoning sauce. I purchased the taco sauce and added it to grass-fed ground beef for tacos. The packaging was very easy to open and kept the sauce fresh. I was pleased with how little work I had to put into the dinner using this saucel Also, the taste was very good and was a great addition to my tacos.
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Good flavor, but too overpowering for fajitas
I had never tried this fajita seasoning before because I kept thinking I prefer my fajitas to be dry. Now, having tried it, I am sure I prefer my fajitas to be dry. The sauce has a nice flavor, albeit a strong one. I just think this sauce would be better used for some other type of Mexican dish. Again, the flavor is good, but, in my opinion, too overpowering for fajitas.
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Easy Dinner
I tried the Green Chile sauce. It is made especially for seafood but I tried it on chicken because that is what I had in my refrigerator. The nutrition on the sauce is actually very good at only 140 calories for the whole pouch. The flavor of the sauce was great but I did have to add salt. It is fairly watery, so it is necessary to simmer it off. It did work very well on the chicken. I also added peppers and onions. I would definitely recommend this sauce if you are looking for a simple way to make a Mexican-style meal. It was really tasty!
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Tasty, easy to use product!
I love that this product was ready to use and tasted great with our shrimp we chose to make. I really enjoyed the cilantro flavor
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Ortega Skillet Sauces
Ortega Skillet Sauces are great for a quick and easy meal, not to mention they are affordable as well. We made tacos with ours. It cooked nicely and the flavor was really good. I would definitely purchase Ortega Skillet Sauces again.
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Great product
I bought this and tried it out. It was easy to use and easy to follow the instructions. I liked it better than the dry kind, since I don't have to add water. The taste, to me, was a blend of taco and chilli flavors. I didn't like that as well, but the amount of heat was right on for me.