Beef & Black Bean Tacos

Taco Night – so we meet again! I really do love to make tacos regularly because you can do so much with them. This particular taco recipe is a bit of an elevated version with microgreens and cojita cheese. Beef & Black Bean Tacos have such great flavors working together to make a delightful bite.

You may see microgreens and think this recipe is too far outside your wheelhouse – or maybe your grocery. More and more they are popping up in “regular” grocery stores and not just high-end or specialty stores. You can also usually find them at a farmer’s market or farm stand. We actually grow them ourselves. They are easy to grow indoors all year round and only take about 7 days to grow. All that said, if you cannot find radish microgreens – you can also use sprouts or baby arugula.

The spicy pickled onions are a big part of this particular dish. They are the only heat source. I have included my recipe for them below the taco recipe. If you don’t like the idea of spicy and/or pickled red onions, you could definitely just use raw red onion, sliced. It is also important to toast the tortillas – this helps it stand up to the mashed black beans, so that you don’t get too soft of a bite.

These are some hefty tacos, so you may only need some cilantro lime rice on the side. You could also make a little extra smashed black beans to serve on the side if you wanted. These tacos are also great for meal prepping. You can put all the components into the different compartments of your meal prep containers and then just build your tacos when you are ready to eat.

Now Let’s Get Cookin’!

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Beef & Black Bean Tacos

An elevated taco with a mashed black bean, spicy pickled onion, microgreens and cojita

Course Dinner, Main Course

Cuisine American, Mexican, Tex-Mex

Keyword asian tacos, beef tacos, black beans, cojita cheese, flour tortillas, ground beef, ground beef recipes, mashed black beans, microgreens, pickled onion, radish microgreens, red onion, spicy pickled onion, taco seasoning, tacos

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes minutes

Servings 6

Ingredients

• 1½ lb Ground Beef
• 2 tbsp Oil
• 1 tbsp Minced Garlic
• ½ White Onion minced
• 2 tbsp Taco Seasoning see recipe below
• 1 cup Radish Microgreens
• ½ cup Cojita Cheese crumbled
• 1 cup Sour Cream
• 2 cups Spicy Pickled Onions see recipe below
• 15 Flour Tortillas fajita sized

For the Black Beans

• 3 15oz can Black Beans drained
• 1 cup Cojita Cheese crumbled
• 1 tbsp Taco Seasoning see recipe below
• 1 15oz can Vegetable Broth

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Instructions

• Prepare your spicy pickled onions as directed in the recipe shared below.
• In a sauce pan over medium-high heat, add black beans, broth, and taco seasoning. Bring to a bubble and then begin smashing the beans with back of a spoon against the sides of the pan. Reduce heat to medium-low. Continue to stir and smash while the beef cooks.
• In a large saute pan, add oil over medium-high heat. Once hot, add onion and garlic. Let saute for 3 minutes then add ground beef and taco seasoning. Cook and crumble until no longer pink.
• Stir cojita into black beans.
• In a flat pan, over medium high heat, lightly toast each flour tortillas.
• Build the taco, smear half of tortilla with mashed black beans and sprinkle with more cojjita. Top with sour cream, then add a portion of beef. Next add some pickled onions, and radish microgreeens.