Can't really talk about beans without talking about taco's/burrito's now can we? We eat some form of taco's every single week. We love them! You can stuff them full of super yummy, healthy stuff. And ours almost always contain black beans.
A quick and easy lunch that I've been making lately are bean and cheese burritos. They are really simple and take very little prep.
Ingredients:
corn tortillas
black beans
cheese
1 tomato
cilantro
lemon/lime juice, pepper, garlic powder to taste
hot sauce (I like Tapatio)
1- Warm up corn tortilla's in a pan or on a griddle with some cooking spray/EVOO (I usually do 3 if it's just me eating them).
2- When your tortillas are slightly brown on both sides and warm, spoon some black beans on them and put some cheese on top. Melt for 30 seconds in the microwave.
3- I like to add some veggies here, so I just make a simple pico de gallo to go with. Dice up one tomato in little pieces. Dice up a few sprigs of cilantro. Mix together with a little lime/lemon juice, garlic powder, and pepper. Put a few spoonfuls on top of your beans and melted cheese. If you like hot sauce or salsa, add that too.
4- That's it! Fold in half and enjoy! Super easy, healthy lunch. When using corn tortillas these are low glycemic and will keep your blood sugar at a steady level.
Here are some other taco recipes that we do that you might want to try...
Quinoa and Black Bean Tacos. These are my all time favorite recipe!!! I'm serious! I love these! They are so yummy, so healthy, and vegetarian because quinoa is a complete protein. I recently shared this recipe with my sister in law and she loved them! If you have been wanting to try out quinoa or use it already give this one a try. (I already blogged this one a while back, find the post here).
GOOP Shrimp Tacos. This is the recipe that really turned me onto taco's way back when. It's from Gwenyth Paldrow's blog and they are so yummy. I like how she makes her beans, warming them up on the stove with a clove of garlic and a few sprigs of cilantro. If you're feeling like shrimp, give this a try.
Fish Tacos. Sorry, no pic for this one. My husband likes to fish and so we use the trout that he catches for fish tacos a lot of the time. Or you could just grill up whatever fish you have on hand. We do grilled fish, shredded cabbage, black beans, pico de gallo, some feta cheese, and hot sauce. And they are so YUMMY!!! Okay... can you tell I'm obsessed with tacos.
One fun tip when making tacos. Put a griddle right on the kitchen table if you have the room, and warm up your tortillas right there when you are making them. It's fun, you always have a warm, fresh tortilla, and it adds to the ambiance of the meal.
** Also, you might notice that I don't add onions to any of this stuff. If you like onions, by all means onion them up! I just think they are disgusting and refuse to put onions in anything that I make. My poor husband... he loves them. But I can't even kiss him if he's had onions... and I can always tell ;).
What kind of taco's do you love?
Beef tacos (we add black beans or kidney to our meat mixture), pork tacos (thank you crock pot!), fish tacos (we usually have tilapia with a lime cilantro coleslaw and avocados), refried bean tortillas, beef fajitas, chicken fajitas (we add cabbage to our fajitas) and we make a chicken mushroom one too. We LOVE mexican food!
ReplyDeleteSounds good Christina!! I really should use my crock pot more for stuff like this. I would get more variety if I did. And I didn't even catch the kidney bean thing the first time I read it... but I'm glad you don't add kidney's to your meat mixture ;).
DeleteHaha that should say kidney 'beans'. I'm going to try the quinoa and black bean recipe- thanks for the idea!
ReplyDeleteYum!! Those look so good. I watched Gwyneth Paltrow's video and I want to make the shrinp tacos so bad.
ReplyDeleteMAKE THEM!!! They are soooo yummy made that way!
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ReplyDeleteMmmm...tacos (in any form, especially quesdillas!) always steal my heart. Thanks for some tasty recipes!
ReplyDeleteWe just had delicious chicken tacos on Sunday. You are inspiring me to up my game in the cooking department. I love these posts - keep sharing!!
ReplyDeleteWe love beans too! We've been eating a lot of bean and rice burritos lately. I cook the rice with half a packet of taco seasoning mixed into the water and I warm the beans by simmering them in 3/4 cup of beef broth with 4 slices of jalepeno dropped in (that I can pick out easily at the end). The beef broth gives them a really nice richness, and I just simmer them until the excess liquid has been absorbed. I picked up some Tapatio per your suggestion and we loved it, so thanks for the tip!
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