It is as delicious cold as it is warm and is great
wrapped in a tortilla with some fresh baby spinach leaves.
This veggie meat mixture is delicious and perfect stuffed into a sweet potato, mixed with eggs, or wrapped
in a tortilla for veggie tacos!
Serve with desired toppings in a bowl or try
serving in a tortilla, taco - style, or with lettuce for a taco salad.
One night we
put in tortillas with salsa for tacos, and the next day we added BBQ sauce to make a BBQ dinner.
Arrange the green
in the tortilla salad bowls and top with the lentils, tomatoes, black beans, olives, corn, and avocado.
Sprinkle with salt and pepper and serve on toast or wrapped
in a tortilla so it can be eaten on - the - go.
8 - 10 whole wheat tortillas (I filled 9 tortillas with my mixture, but it could be slightly more or less depending on how much filling you
use in each tortilla).
Corn tortillas are so easy to make and are quite similar in flavor to the ones I buy, but fresh really is
better in a tortilla.
Each element of these tacos is full of fiber, from the sweet potatoes, to the black beans, and even the
corn in the tortillas.
They are so light and refreshing, I am making a mental note to wrap
things in tortillas less and into rice paper rolls more.
Oil a large baking dish (I use an 8 × 12 - inch oval one) and
spread in the tortilla mixture and any sauce hanging out on the bottom of the bowl.
This recipe is a great way to get the same flavors without the need for white flour or vegetable
oils in the tortillas.
The chicken can be cut off the bones and eaten topped with the salsa, or rolled up in
up in the tortilla with salsa, like a soft taco.
I kind of think of it as avocado toast
in tortilla form, which means you know it's gonna be good.
My mother in law is Mexican and she makes these as simple as they come (potatoes mashed with butter and salt, spread
in the tortilla first and then fried).
The drawback of this approach, however, is that it will often
result in a tortilla with an irregular shape.
Today I had more of them, this time with some roasted vegetables (which were pretty juicy) and
hummus in a tortilla, and it was a great combination.
Pour in the tortilla mix and cook over a medium - low heat until it is just set and coming away from the sides of the pan.
I struggle to come up with things to
put in my tortillas so I usually end up with chicken and salad most of the time.