How to make quick, tasty, and super healthy vegan tacos that even non vegans will love.
Easy Vegetarian Tacos
Vegan
Soy Free
Gluten Free
High Protein
5 Ingredients
For a healthy plant-based dessert, try this Vegan Brownies Recipe
Taco Tuesday?
How about taco every day.
The savory lentil filling in these protein-packed meatless tacos is so good, you’ll want to eat it with a spoon.
They’re a great option for a quick and simple nutritious weeknight meal, or have fun setting up a vegan taco bar station by putting everything out on the counter in different bowls—taco shells, filling, lettuce, onions, diced tomatoes, avocado, salsa—and letting people build their own tacos.
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Feel free to customize the recipe by stirring diced roasted sweet potato, cauliflower, tofu, jackfruit, or a handful of spinach into the vegan taco meat before serving.
I haven’t tried replacing the lentils with black beans, but it should be fine as long as you adjust the water amount and allow for extra soaking and cooking time for the beans. Be sure to report back if you experiment!
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Vegan Tacos
Ingredients
- 1 cup diced onion
- oil or spray, for sautéing
- 1 tbsp minced garlic
- 2/3 cup dry lentils
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 2 1/2 tbsp taco seasoning, or one batch of the homemade taco seasoning below
- optional 1/2 cup roasted diced sweet potato
- taco shells or lettuce cups
- optional toppings, such as salsa, avocado, cheese-style shreds, etc.
Instructions
- *If you want to make your own taco seasoning, simply combine all of the following: 1 tbsp chili powder, 1 tsp each of ground cumin, salt, and onion powder, 1/2 tsp each of garlic powder, paprika, black pepper, and oregano, and optional 1/2 tsp cocoa powder.In a medium pot, sauté the onion (in oil or spray) over medium heat until browned. Add garlic, and cook one additional minute. Add all remaining ingredients (excluding optional toppings, sweet potato, and shells), and bring to a boil. Once boiling, cover and lower to a simmer for 40 minutes or until lentils are soft and water is absorbed. To assemble: Stir in sweet potato if using. Place about 1/4 cup lentil mixture in each shell or lettuce cup. Top as desired.View Nutrition Facts
Notes
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Annette Kastner says
Love the idea of using lentils, beccause they are more easily digested than most other beans. Canned lentils would make this recipe even easier.
Paige Cassandra Flamm says
These tacos look amazing, and would be perfect for a quick and easy weeknight meal!
Paige
sue says
I love that you give the nutritional values. So easy to compute for WW points and you provided those also! These sound fabulous and will be making them this week! Thank you!
Pink says
Hi Katie,
How come you are not on Twitter?
Pink ♡
Jason Sanford says
Katie is on twitter, @choccoveredkt 😉
susan says
HI, Katie, I am so excited to see this recipe so soon after your new veggie burger was posted! I love your savory recipes and appreciate the simplicity yet great flavor they all have. The vegan quinoa is one of my go to meals and I love the mushroom barley soup, lentil soup, and your other veggie burger ideas, too. Your desserts are great, have made more than one of them, but as far as I am concerned you are a savory recipe rock star! Please keep them coming.:) Plan to make the veggie burgers today and these tacos will be next. Thank you!!!!
Philomina says
A very useful article to read. Thanks a lot for sharing this. Fine work. Keep it up.
Larissa Stevenson says
I made these, and they are absolutely fantastic!! Better then meat in my opinion. (:
CCK Media Team says
Thank you so much for trying them!
Karen says
Easy to make, and tastes delicious. Thank you for this quick and yummy vegan taco recipe!