This was my first time making fajitas/tacos. I got inspired seeing some authentic tortillas in a health food store, and this meal/post is the result :) I didn't have much experience with fajitas/tacos before making this.
I found there were two great aspects. It's an unusually fun-to-eat meal. The assembly, once the ingredients are prepared, allows for some creativity and different ideas. (I think it'd be a fun at-home date idea.) There's the finger-food aspect. I stuffed back like 4 or 5 of these for supper. As someone who eats a fair amount of wheat (and rice), it's neat to get a really filling meal without either wheat or rice. The second great aspect is that between the black beans and avocado (and maybe fried onions and tortilla as well) it was legitimately rich in a creamy sort of way. I was not at all missing dairy cheese with these!
The only downside is that they aren't too conducive batch cooking (e.g., preparing food for several dinners in a row).
My crude recipe (makes 4-5 fajitas):
- 1 medium onion, sliced
- 1 sweet pepper, sliced
- 1/2 can of black beans
- A few cloves of garlic, chopped for veg/beans mix; 1 small clove grated for guacamole
- 100% corn tortillas
- 1 avocado
- 1 jalapeño, diced
- cilantro
- 1 lime, squeezed (1/2 in guacamole, 1/2 to spritz on top at the end)
- olive oil
- salt
- Southwestern chipotle seasoning (I found an inexpensive one that isn't predominantly salt, and I was very happy with it)
The recipe is pretty forgiving and also easy to vary. Ideas for furthering my fajita/taco game welcome :D
