Black Bean Tacos Sweet Potato, Quinoa, and Lemon Tahini Sauce for a healthy gluten-free vegan taco recipe.
Mondeeeeeeee! We’re going meatless!
It’s Monday and we’re all groggy from daylight savings, but looky here: we’ve got tacos!
Do you ever say to yourself, “I want a taco right now, and I need it to be meatless?” I typically like my tacos oozing with saucy meat, but I’ve needed to take a brief hiatus from the animal lately on account of the fact that I’ve been eating so dang much of it. I mean, have you been around here the last couple of weeks? It’s been a real animal house.
In honor of my meat hiatus, I have a Meatless Monday meal for you! I made us a taco that’s loads better than loosing an hour of sleep, right up there with the new Rihanna, Kanye and McCartney song, and almoooost as good as two of my favorite artists, Zac Brown and Chris Cornell, singing a little ditty together.
This is a simple, super filling, and tasty recipe to keep you fed throughout the workweek. You can prepare any of the ingredients ahead of time and eat on them for lunch or dinner.
Yes, you will use all sorts of pots and pans in the making of these tacos, but the actual effort you put into the prep is child’s play, I promise.
Just as the title suggests, our meatless tacos include quinoa, black beans, roasted sweet po’s, some avo, and green onion. The lemon tahini sauce is what really seals the deal, so be sure to make it a priority.
Or whip up your sauce of choice, like guac, salsa, queso, cashew cream, what have you. What I’m getting at, is sauce is really what makes these things gravy. Make it saucyyyyy!
Sweet po tacooooooooooos!
Sweet Potato and Black Bean Tacos with Quinoa and Lemon Tahini Sauce
Ingredients
- 1 large sweet potato chopped into ½” cubes
- 2/3 cup dry quinoa about 2 cups cooked
- 1 14- ounce can black beans drained and rinsed
- 1 large avocado peeled and diced
- 6 to 8 corn tortillas
- 4 green onions chopped
Lemon Tahini Sauce:
- 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- ¼ cup water
- ¼ cup tahini
- 2 teaspoons honey or pure maple syrup
- ½ teaspoon ground cumin
- ¼ teaspoon fine sea salt or to taste
Instructions
Prepare the Lemon Tahini Sauce:
- Add all ingredients for the sauce to a small blender or food processor. Blend until completely smooth. Refrigerate until ready to use. Note: Sauce will thicken in the refrigerator.
Prepare the Tacos:
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
- Spread the chopped sweet potato over a large baking dish and drizzle enough olive oil to lightly coat, about 2 tablespoons. Sprinkle with sea salt and chili powder. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes, until sweet potato is golden brown and cooked through, stirring once after 20 minutes.
- While the sweet potato is roasting, cook the quinoa per package instructions.
- Heat black beans on the stove top and toast the corn tortillas.
- Prepare tacos by adding desired amount of quinoa, beans, sweet potato, avocado, and green onion to corn tortillas. Drizzle with desired amount of lemon tahini sauce.
Hooray for daylight savings! I can taste summer. I guess I need to get a pedicure in anticipation of flip flops. And maybe lift some weights so my arms are tank top ready! And shove tacos in my face. Yeah. Going to go and do all that right now!!
You sing straight to my soul.
These are the tacos of my dreamssss!! So my favorite taco place (just a block from my house, bad/not bad) stopped making my favorite taco and it was JUST like this one! Totes making these for dinner so I can pretend it’s almost summer, because I really just neeeeed it to be summer already!
WHY WOULD THEY STOOOOOOP?!! Well sheesh, guess that means you and I will just have to make deez tacos together in bulk…wanna meet somewhere in middle USA?
“I want a taco right now, and I need it to be meatless?” — ALMOST. But I’m an adult, and I don’t want a taco I NEED a taco. Like 5 minutes ago. Nom!
Heck yeah. I’d throw tantrums for tacos. Like a straight-up 4-year-old 😉
Do you ever say to yourself, “I want a taco right now, and I need it to be meatless?”—>Yes, I actually do say that, quite a bit. 🙂 So these are perfect!! I love everything about these tacos.
nom nom nom SO glad you like them!
Ooooh these tacos are my jam! I want to shove 3 in my mouth at once and then wash them down with that lemon tahini sauce.
And can we talk about how jealous I am that you live so close to Lake Tahoe? I love that place so much it makes me want to cry. I need to start planning a weekend there soon so we can hang out and drink white wine in red solo cups. 🙂
YEEEES! Getyo booty up here, girl!
Daylight savings time is the best. I don’t even care that we lost an hour of precious weekend time because it will no longer be dark when I leave work! And these tacos – yum! I always have tahini on hand but I never thought to use it with tacos!
This was my first go-round using tahini on tacos, and I was surprised how well it just worked! Let me know if you try it!
Daylight savings drives me crazy. I do like it to stay light later. However, in the last 10 years or so they’ve added two months to the length. It makes calling standard time standard nonsensical, since we’re now spending 8 months of every year on daylight savings time!
It’s very strange, indeed. I saw this video on Facebook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br0NW9ufUUw which gave me a good laugh. Funny how we hold on to traditions that don’t make a lick of sense. What really gets me is how some states observe DS and some don’t…Although I love the extra hour for snapping photos, I’m thinking we just need to kick DS to the curb 😉
Hello, I love receiving your daily recipes… they are so tasty and healthy.
I do have a request: I see no calories posted for any of them… It would be wonderful if you could add this feature.
Thanks so much…
Hi May, I appreciate the feedback, and thanks for the kind note! If you’d like nutritions facts for any of my recipes, you can use websites that have free calorie counters. 😀
Thanks… will do that… 🙂
What a great meatless monday idea!
Thanks Annie!
I’m so into this right now – especially after my meatcoma weekend. Well done, lady!
“I want a taco right now” is pretty much my mantra. I could seriously eat tacos every. single. day. Yeah, I’m all about the sun staying out a little longer. Also, it’s 45 degrees here, which is pretty much summer compared to last week. I even thought about digging out my flip-flops. Girl, gimme all the tacos. Pinned.
I knew I’d be in good company on the taco front. Who are the people who don’t like tacos, is what I want to know. 😉 YES to 45 degree weather after the arctic freeze y’all have been having! And yes to flip flops…can we call them thongs just for fun?
We have been eating so many tacos lately! I am all about them! They are so easy and versatile. I can’t wait to serve andy the quesadilla version of this because he loooves both these veggies! Oh and thank you for giving me a new song to like!!!
Yeeeeeah so glad you like that song!! I love all the musics, and figured the Zac and Chris duo would be a little too hard for more people, but shiiii man…it’s just too good not to share. YES to the queso version of the recipe!! You’s brilliant, m’dear!
Yes daylight savings and yes meatless tacos. I never think to make tacos without meat, which actually makes NO sense whatsoever. Look how good these look!
I hear ya sister – it’s tough to go meatless for something as wonderful as a taco. Let me know if you try them!
Well you know I am allllll about the meatless taco! I actually made sweet potato and black bean quesadillas this week and they were fabulous…but now I’m thinking i need to taco that filling and get some lemon tahini sauce in there.