Mexican
Black Bean Sweet Potato Tacos
Roasted sweet potato cubes and black beans in tortillas with cabbage and lime. The potato is the main event, seasoned with chili, not sugar.
- Prep
- 15 min
- Cook
- 25 min
- Total
- 40 min
- Servings
- 4
- Difficulty
- Easy
Why you’ll love it
- Roasting concentrates the potato instead of boiling it soft.
- Cabbage and lime keep the taco from being only sweet.
- Beans make it more filling than potato alone.
- One sheet pan does the hot part.
Ingredients
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Instructions
- 1
Heat the oven to 425°F.
- 2
Toss the sweet potatoes with oil, chili powder, cumin, and salt. Spread on a sheet pan.
- 3
Roast 20 minutes. Add the beans to the pan and roast 5 minutes more, until the potatoes are tender and browned at the edges.
- 4
Toss the cabbage with lime juice and a pinch of salt.
- 5
Warm the tortillas.
- 6
Fill with potatoes, beans, cabbage, and cilantro.
Pro tips
- Cut the cubes about 3/4 inch. Smaller ones dry out. Larger ones stay hard.
- Do not add the beans at the start or they dry and split.
- Salt the cabbage. Unsalted slaw tastes watery next to the potatoes.
Easy substitutions
- Cabbage
- Shredded lettuce.
- Corn tortillas
- Flour tortillas.
Storage and reheating
Storage
Refrigerate the potatoes and beans up to 3 days. Make the slaw fresh.
Reheating
Warm the filling on a pan at 400°F for 8 minutes. Use fresh cabbage.
Nutrition
Estimates per serving, using standard ingredient averages and rounded to the nearest gram. This is not a lab analysis, and it shifts if you change brands or add sides.
- Calories
- 390
- Protein
- 13 g
- Carbs
- 64 g
- Fat
- 10 g
- Fiber
- 13 g
Budget friendly · Oven · Vegetarian
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