Taquitos with Salsa Fresca

Day 60

We love Mexican. We had quite a few ingredients for this on hand already so Laura came up with the brilliant idea to have taquitos tonight. And, she's cooking. I'm all on board...yum!

Taquitos with Salsa Fresca

Taquitos Recipe

Filling

1 1/2 cup dried pinto beans
1 large white onion, diced
1 can green chilies
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 tsp cumin
1 tsp chipotle powder
1 tsp salt
1/4 cup water (or vegetable broth)

Steps

• Do a quick soak with the beans (bring to a boil, turn off and let sit for an hour), then give them a rinse. 
• Mash about 1/4 of the beans with 1/4 cup of water.
• Sauté onions and add the 2 cloves of garlic. 

Beans & onions

• Add the mashed beans, cumin, chipotle powder and salt and can of green chilies.
• Heat the mashed mixture as well as the rest of the beans, and add them together.

Taquito filling

Making Taquitos

Place about 3 heaping tbsps of filling on a tortilla and roll it up. Ours are rolled a little fatter than taquitos are supposed to be. Top it with cheese. Make some more. Place them in a baking dish and bake at 350 degrees F for 20 minutes.

Taquitos baking in the oven

Salsa Fresca

2 avocados, diced
2 tomatoes, diced
1/2 red pepper, diced
1 medium red onion, diced
1 lime
2  cloves garlic, minced
1/2 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp pepper
Pinch of sea salt

Dice the veggies. Squeeze the lime.

Diced tomato, red pepper & red onion

Salsa fresca

Mix all ingredients and let sit for an hour or more so that the flavors meld. Serve with hot taquitos and sour cream.

Taquitos with salsa fresca & sour cream

Reviews/Comments

Almost any Mexican meal Laura makes will always get a 10 from me, but these were a bit too spicy to really enjoy. I'm probably wussy, but I like a more medium heat. I still gotta go with 10 though. Better than anything I've had all week. Next time, we'll use half the chipotle powder.

Laura: They're good. 7.