Mexican
Sweet Potato and Black Bean Tacos
Sweet Potato and Black Bean Tacos is Mexican home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 2 lb sweet potatoes
- 15 oz canned black beans
- 12 corn tortillas
- 1 tbsp chili powder
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 1/2 red onion
- 2 limes
- 2 avocados
- 1/2 cup chopped cilantro
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Heat the oven to 425F and peel and dice the sweet potatoes.
- Toss the sweet potatoes with the olive oil, chili powder, cumin, smoked paprika, and salt, then roast until tender and caramelized, about 25 minutes.
- Warm the black beans in a small pot, stirring in a squeeze of lime.
- Mash the avocados with the remaining lime juice and half the cilantro.
- Warm the corn tortillas until soft and pliable.
- Build tacos with mashed avocado, roasted sweet potato, black beans, red onion, and remaining cilantro.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Sweet Potato and Black Bean Tacos carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- Medium
- Protein quality
- Partial
- Food groups it covers
- Grains, Pulses, Vegetables, and Fruit
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Sweet Potato and Black Bean Tacos takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on sweet potato, bean, and tortilla.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
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