Vegan Black Bean Tacos
These healthy and delicious vegan black bean tacos are great for an easy weeknight meal. Packed with beans, veggies, spices, and toppings of your choice, they’re full of flavor, ready in 30 minutes, and perfect for the whole family!
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 357kcal
Ingredients
- 2 tsp olive oil
- 8 soft corn tortillas
- 1 red onion diced
- 15 oz black beans, rinsed and drained 1 can
- 1 red, yellow or orange bell pepper, diced
- 15 oz diced & fire roasted tomatoes 1 can
- 3-4 cloves garlic
- ½ tsp salt more to taste
- ½ tsp taco seasoning more to taste
- ¾ cup frozen corn
- 1 avocado mashed with some lime juice or guacamole
- chopped cilantro to taste
Instructions
- Warm corn tortillas in the oven or microwave and chop all your veggies/toppings
- Heat a pan over medium-high heat. Add 2 tsp olive oil and saute the onion, black beans, peppers, tomatoes, corn, garlic, salt and taco seasoning until heated through - about 10 minutes.
- While the bean mixture is cooking, mash your avocado and add salt & lime juice to taste.
- Assemble your tacos! Start with your tortilla, add the bean mixture, top with mashed avocado/guac and cilantro.
Notes
Expert Tips
- Get creative. You can always use your favorite on these plant-based tacos, but you can also top them with your favorite Mexican sides. Or try something new like green cabbage, a cilantro sauce, quick pickled onions, or anything else you might like to experiment with.
- Use homemade seasoning. Try making your own homemade taco seasoning using this Old El Paso taco seasoning recipe – it’s cheaper and more flavorful than store-bought!
- Adjust the smokiness. If you don’t like a smoky flavor, switch out the fire-roasted tomatoes with regular diced tomatoes. If you enjoy smoke and spice, feel free to add more of the tomatoes and peppers as well.
- Build the taco with purpose. Add the bean mixture to the bottom of the taco to hold the other ingredients.
- Increase the vegetables. Too much filling? Never! For more roasted veggies, add in 6oz chopped baby spinach to the black bean mixture.
- Make it your own. Make sure to adjust the salt and spices to taste. If you like your tacos super spicy, feel free to add some cayenne pepper to the black bean mixture! Whatever flavors you prefer for vegetarian bean tacos can easily be accommodating in this recipe.
- Change up the veggies! Roasted cauliflower, carrots, squash, zucchini or sweet potatoes would all work well in these tacos.
- Try making some vegan taco "meat" by crumbling tofu and sautéing it with taco seasoning or chili powder
- Try using refried black or pinto beans instead of whole beans
- Add pico de gallo as one of your toppings in addition to salsa
- Add some more fresh ingredients like shredded romaine lettuce and other fresh herbs
- Try different salsas like: mango salsa, tomatillo salsa, pineapple salsa, or even a tahini sauce instead of salsa!
Nutrition
Serving: 2tacos | Calories: 357kcal | Carbohydrates: 56.1g | Protein: 12g | Fat: 11.3g | Saturated Fat: 1.7g | Sodium: 489mg | Potassium: 922mg | Fiber: 14.3g | Sugar: 6g