When one is hungry, one tends to turn to tacos. (If one happens to be obsessed with any sort bean wrapped in any sort of tortilla, as I am.)
Unfortunately, when one is broke because one goes out for too many drinks and takes too many cab rides home after working late-night hours, one cannot afford many ingredients for beautiful complicated taco fixins.
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| A typical drunken awesome night in which my net taco worth is zero. |
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| Beautiful vegan tacos with loads of complicated & amazing fixins. I can afford this kind when I don’t partake in drunken shenanigans. |
When I am hungry and want a taco, I am one lucky girl when I have these ingredients on hand:
Quick and Easy Vegan Tacos
- 1/2 cup beans (pinto, black, or refried)
- 1/3 cup daiya shredded cheddar cheese
- 2 or 3 corn tortillas/1 or 2 flour or spelt tortillas
- 1/2 cup alfalfa sprouts
- 1 t Earth Balance, oil, or nothing
- 2 T Nutritional Yeast
- A few squirts Secret Aardvark Hot Sauce, or hot sauce of your choice, if you like hot sauce, which you probably should
Instructions
Using either precooked home made beans or rinsed canned beans, warm in pot on stove top over medium heat. Optional: add spices while cooking (common spices to make beans even MORE delicious are cumin, garlic powder, chili powder, cayenne, and of course salt and pepper) When hot, usually 4-5 minutes, remove from heat.
Meanwhile, heat skillet to medium heat with either 1 teaspoon Earth Balance; 1 teaspoon olive oil; or if you have a fancy nonstick pan or cook without added fat, nothing. Place first tortilla in pan, sprinkling with nutritional yeast for a sort of vegan cheesey coating. Once heated on one side, flip over. Place around 1/2 the cooked beans on one side of the tortilla. Add 1/2 the daiya cheese. Fold in half. Heat for 1-2 minutes. Flip when bottom side starts to brown. Once both sides are browned and daiya is melted, remove from heat. Open, stick in some sprouts and hot sauce, close, and take a bite.
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| How could I resist? |
Repeat with 2nd and if necessary–or extra hungry–3rd tortilla.
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| Secret Aardvark Hot Sauce is not needed to make a taco delicious, but is a welcome addition. |
Once you have your tacos, all made and melty and waiting for you to partake in their deliciousness, do a little taco dance. Then eat.
This is what I look like eating a taco:
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| Rowr. |
Of course, you can add anything slightly mexican-y to your tacos–black olives, romaine lettuce, mushrooms, bell peppers, vegan taco meat…. or anything not even remotely mexican-y–hummus, bbq sauce, chickpeas….
The world is your (vegan) oyster–experiment and have fun!
* If you don’t want to make tacos, and you live in Portland, and it’s a Wednesday night, go to the Hawthorne Hideaway. Tacos are 2 for $1 and include TVP (texturized vegetable protein), romaine, fresh tomatoes, and salsa.
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Wow, these are gorgeous and probably tasty, too! I shared this on:
http://fuckyeahvegantacos.tumblr.com/post/18633985452/beautiful-vegan-tacos-with-loads-of-complicated
xotaco!