You won’t even miss the meat with this protein packed recipe! It has some of my favorite mexican food ingredients: avocados, beans, cilantro, lime….. Is your mouth watering yet?
My meat loving father who comes from a long line of butchers is probably thinking, “Where did I go wrong?” Well, dad if you are reading this don’t worry I am not going Vegetarian on you. This recipe is so good that you will want to find other ways to eat it. You can snack on it with chips, have it as a salad or eat it straight out of the bowl…. I think even my Latino meat loving father would approve of my Amazing Meatless Mexican Tacos.
Amazing Meatless Mexican Tacos
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cp quinoa
- 2 avocados diced
- flour or corn tortillas
- 1/4 cp diced cilantro
- 1/3 cp diced spinach
- 1/2 cp onions
- 1 tbl garlic paste
- 1 cp halved cherry tomatoes
- 1 can black beans
- 2 cps of chicken broth
For the dressing:
2 limes juiced
1tbl. dijon mustard
1tbl. olive oil
1 tsp. brown sugar
1 tsp. cumin
1tsp of chili powder
salt and pepper to taste
1. First soak quinoa for 5min under running water and run your fingers through it to remove the bitter taste. Then for 15min place your quinoa in 2 cups of chicken broth in a pot and bring to a boil after it boils cool on low heat for about 20 minutes.
2. In a large bowl mix in the avocado, spinach, cilantro, tomatoes and onions.
3. Once quinoa is done add the garlic paste to it.
4. Mix quinoa in with the veggies and add black beans.
5. Mix all of the ingredients for dressing in a bowl and pour over quinoa mix.
6. Place a spoonful in a tortilla and enjoy!
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I am supposed to make meatless taco to bring to a party this saturday…didn’t have a recipe yet, but this sound delicious!!! Will try!
Daniela, Yay, I love to hear that from readers! Let me know how it works for you. The dressing is key but since it’s cooked in broth it’s still has a yummy flavor w/o it but the dressing is what makes the dish come together.
I would love it, if you would share this, & any other recipes you may have, on my recipe link up. http://goodrecipesonline.com/organized-linkup-for-all-your-recipes-goodrecipesonline-com/.
I love quinoa and we are trying to eat less meat so we’ve added more quinoa to the diet! I will have to give this recipe a try sometime. We’d love it if you’d share this at our Home is Where the Heart is! http://www.homesteadsimple.com/home-is-where-the-heart-is-link-it-up-wednesdays-1/
and any other posts you’d like to share that have to do with homesteading and homemaking!
I love quinoa! Those look really good!
We really like quinoa in my house! These looks very tasty. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
Wow! This is very different but every so healthy. Sounds wonderful:) Thank you for sharing at Freedom Fridays.
Ooh looks good – we’re a vegetarian house so we will def be trying this over the Summer!
charlotte, enjoy!
This was very fresh tasting. I added corn to it, which was good. It was too sour for my family as the recipe is written. I would use 1 lime, not 2 and it needed more salt than the recipe called for. I ate the leftovers with a fork and by-passed the tortillas. Delish!
Anonymous, So glad you were able to make it your own. Thx for sharing!