These tacky Baked Black Bean and Sweet Potato Flautas are considered one of my best recipes ever, and for smart cause too!
Ingredients
- 9 corn tortillas
- 1 cup black beans (drained + rinsed if utilizing canned)
- 1 cup mexi-corn (corn + red/green peppers)
- 1 small/medium candy potato
- 1/4 cup diced onion
- 1/2 tsp chili powder
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp dried or recent cilantro
- 1/2 tsp cumin
- 1/4 tsp flooring cayenne pepper or red pepper flakes optional
- 2 oz full-fat or 1/3 fats cream cheese room temperature (optional but tasty!)
- 4-6 ounces grated cheese* plus additional to taste
- 1-2 TBSP taco sauce, enchilada sauce, or salsa plus additional to taste
- salt and pepper to taste
- all-natural olive oil spray or plain oil
- parsley or cilantro + recent veggies to garnish
- DIP IT!
- salsa
- sour cream or Greek yogurt
- guacamole
Instructions
- Pre-heat your oven to 425F.
- Poke just a couple of holes on your candy potato, wrap it in a fairly damp paper towel, and microwave on excessive for about 6-8 minutes. The paper towel trick retains the potato moist
- While you wait, combine corn, diced or minced peppers, and diced or minced onion together with your black beans, garlic powder, chili powder, cumin, cilantro, cayenne, and taco sauce/salsa. If you choose very smooth veggies, really experience unfastened to saute the vegetables first in barely butter or oil to tenderize. Your cayenne and red pepper flakes will manage the spice-factor; regulate these to taste. I change among utilizing my favourite flavorful red enchilada sauce, spicy taco sauce, and a natural, zesty salsa like Mrs. Renfros Green Salsa, all have produced delicious results!
- Once your candy potato is cooked, fluff the internal with a fork and upload the flesh [minus the skin] to the relaxation of your veggies and blend thoroughly.
- Add salt, pepper, and any additional seasoning to taste. I typically upload barely additional sprinkle chili powder, cumin, and garlic!
- Next, operating in small batches of perhaps 3-4 tortillas, wrap corn tortillas in a moist paper towel and microwave on excessive for 30 seconds. Follow it up with an extra 30 seconds, if needed. The objective right right this is to steam the tortillas so they roll into proper flautas with out breaking or cracking =) This trick works like a charm!
- Immediately spray or rub one area every tortilla with oil and upload "line" of veggie filling to the heart of the "dry side" of every tortilla, about 1-inch thick.
- Top it off with a layer of cheese [as a lot or as low as you want! if you are utilizing cream cheese as nicely you possibly can blend it into the shredded cheese earlier than topping] and roll the tortilla.
- Place on a wire baking/cooling rack and seal with a toothpick, if needed.
- Repeat these steps till you've got a rack filled with flautas.
- Give them one additional teeny spritz of olive oil to get them additional crispy [no-frying! whoo!] and set the rack baking sheet lined with aluminum foil. The wire rack elevates the flautas and permits them to get smart and crispy on equally sides. If you do no longer own a wire rack, merely location the flautas on aluminum foil after spraying and switch over midway by means of cooking so equally facets gets a possibility to crisp up. Uber easy!
- Bake at the middle rack, at 425F, for 15 minutes.
- At the end, set to broil on HIGH for just underneath a minute to crisp the tortillas right into a perfectly golden, crunchy shell.
- Pile excessive with any + all veggies you've got accessible and serve with plain greek yogurt, salsa, and guacamole for dipping! You also can whip up a small bowl of jalapeno ranch for dunking too! If you've got any recent lime or cilantro equally will make a tasty garnish!
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I went full-on neurotic with this recipe. I tested. And tested. And examined some more.
Poor me right? I needed to consume all these delicious flautas. The horror.
Each time they tasted great, but I’m a piece ruthless. I needed them to be downright irresistable.
It’s about time that veggies take heart degree in a dish, and never just be an after-thought, slapped on our plates like a pile of sad peas. Not that peas are sad, but whilst you spend hours slaving over a fundamental course only to microwave a small pouch of buttered peas and pour them subsequent to your masterpiece of a fundamental dish… well, that’s type of sad. Veggies want love too! So, as always, I’m right right here to offer vegetables first billing. Followed by cheese, wonderful cheese.
Baked Black Bean and Sweet Potato FlautasThese tacky Baked Black Bean and Sweet Potato Flautas are considered one of my best recipes ever, and for smart cause too. I cannot look ahead to you to attempt them!