A delicious vegetarian recipe: tacos with sweet potato and beans. Fast food with a twist. It's so delicious that you want to eat this everyday!
A delicious healthy recipe to start the week with. And ready in the blink of an eye. Certainly if you bake the sweet potato in the oven the night before. Then these tacos are ready to be served in a few minutes.
Final
table
Inspired by a cooking show on Netflix, called the Final table, I ended up with preparing these tacos. The Final Table is in fact a show in which 12 duos start and only 1 will be the winner (yes, that concept has of course been donebefore), but the great thing is that they are going to prepare specific recipes from a country. With the cooks own twist. And the first country (but you probably guessed it already) was Mexico. The 12 teams started with tacos. And they came up with a lot of variations, I was literally mouth watering.
There were very culinary creations, but also very simple ones. But they all sounded great (although the jury found that a few were disappointing if you actually ate them).
Taco with a
twist
So I just sat down and asked myself how I would make a Taco with a twist. For example if I would go on a vegetarian tour. And now it seemed like a good choice to use sweet potato as a base, combined with kidney beans. Nicely flavored with herbs and finally mixed with cherry tomatoes. And I understood from the series that a salsa (with pepper, that is very important) should always be a part of it.
To spice up the taco, I opted for creamy avocado, peppery radish, pepper and a red onion. Flavored with a hint of lime. I don't know if I would go to the next round in the actual show, but it was tasty. And it looked beautiful.
It's a good taste!
Recipe vegetarian tacos with sweet potato and
beans
📖 Recipe
Equipment
- A conventional oven is used. When using a convection oven (with air fan) decrease the temperature with 30 °F / 20 °C
- baking plate
- Parchment paper
- frying pan
Ingredients
avocado radish salsa
- 1 avocado
- 1 red onion
- ½ red chili pepper
- 1 clove garlic
- 15 grams ground coriander or parsley
- 50 grams radish
- ½ limes
- salt and pepper to taste
Taco filling
- 400 grams sweet potatoes diced
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- salt and pepper to taste
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 1 red onion chopped
- 1 clove garlic squeezed
- 680 grams kidney beans rinsed
- 1 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- ½ teaspoon bell pepper
- 200 grams cherry tomatoes cut into quarters
- 15 grams ground coriander or parsley
At the table!
- 10 taco shells
- 100 grams iceberg lettuce
- ground coriander or parsley to taste
- limes to taste
- 100 grams grated cheddar cheese
- crème fraîche
Ingredients you need per step are listed below the step in Italic
Instructions
Avocado radish salsa
- Cut the avocado, onion, pepper, garlic, herbs and radish into small cubes and mix well.
- Season with salt, pepper and lime juice.
- Store covered in the refrigerator until use.
Taco filling
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius.
- Line a baking sheet with paper.
- Spread the sweet potato on the baking sheet and sprinkle with the olive oil.
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Put the plate in the oven for 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, heat the oil in the frying pan.
- Fry the onion in about 3 minutes.
- Mix the garlic and stir-fry for 30 minutes.
- Add the kidney beans and the spices.
- Bake for about 10 minutes.
- When the sweet potato is ready, mix it with the beans.
- Then mix in the tomatoes and herbs.
- Season everything with salt and pepper.
At the table!
- Heat the taco shells until they are crispy.
- Place some iceberg lettuce at the bottom of the taco shells.
- Add the sweet potato mixture.
- Sprinkle with coriander and season with lime.
- Sprinkle some cheese on top and serve with the salsa and crème fraîche.
Nutrition
What did I use to prepare this
recipe?
Kitchen utensils I’ve used to prepare this recipe. When you follow the link you will go to another page with a short explanation of each item. It’s also possible to order directly if you’re in need.
- a good pair of knives
- cutting board
- Brushes, spatulas and other cooking utensils
- frying pan
- Sheet pan, baking tray or baking sheet
- Baking paper or baking mat
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