Taquitos

Amber | Sunday, March 29 2020

i first made these when my last work was having a cinco de mayo potluck and everyone was being really shitty to the office vegetrian and refused to make anything meatless. supes easy and good enough for even me, a bean-hater, to eat.

this made 12 taquitos, but I think you could make more if you filled them less & roll them more tightly so they actually look like a taquito. This is like a...taquito-burrito.

ingredients:

• corn torillas
• can black beans
• we used Bush's Black Bean Fiesta which is already seasoned - add some southwest seasonings if you have plain ol' beans
• cheese (shredded)
• whatever else you feel like
• we had leftover cooked onion from a hellofresh recipe which inexplicably gave us an entire onion plus a large shallot for two burgers.

method:

• heat your oven to 350ish
• use a fork or fine potato masher to mush beans, leaving about half whole if you want
• get your toppings ready and a sheet pan ready to assembly line
• heat a couple tortillas in a pan at a time until hot (if they aren't hot enough they'll break)
• smear with beans
• top with cheese and other stuff
• roll 'em up'
• put them on your pan
• it might help to spray them with cooking spray or brush with some oil at this point to keep the edges from drying/breaking like ours did? Idk they taste fine
• bake for...a bit. 10 minutes?
• sprinkle with bonus cheese if you're into that
• eat with your fav dips. we did salsa verde & sour cream

i'm not very experienced with corn tortillas, there was probably a way to keep them from flaking or breaking maybe but idk what that would be!