Pulse Tacos

Course: Entrees
Difficulty: Easy
Pulse Type: Beans, Chickpeas
Specialty Diet: Vegetarian
Nutrition: 300 calories or less, 500 calories or less, 7g+ protein
Category: Meal Prep Recipes
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Total Time: 45 minutes
Servings: 12 tacos
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Ingredients

Pulse Filling:

  • 2 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 2 onion thinly sliced
  • 6 cloves garlic thinly sliced
  • 1 tbsp chili powder (heaping) (18 mL)
  • 1 tsp cumin ground
  • 1 cup lentils, green (250 mL)
  • 1 19 oz can chickpeas or your favourite beans; rinsed and drained
  • 2 cups water (500 mL)
  • 1⁄2 tsp salt (2 mL)
  • 1⁄2 tsp hot sauce your favourite

Taco Toppings:

  • head lettuce Bibb or iceberg
  • 12 taco shells hard
  • few handfuls cheddar cheese or taco blend; shredded
  • salsa Your favourite
  • large bunch cilantro fresh
  • 2 lime cut into wedges

Instructions

Make the pulse filling:

  1. Splash the vegetable oil into a large skillet or sauté pan over medium-high heat. Toss in the onions, garlic, chili powder, and cumin. Sauté until the vegetables soften and the spice flavours brighten, 3 or 4 minutes. Stir in the lentils, beans, water, and salt. Bring the works to a slow, steady simmer. Cover tightly and continue slowly cooking until the lentils are tender, 35 minutes or so. Stir in the hot sauce.

Assemble the tacos:

  1. Fit a full leaf of lettuce into a hard taco shell. This will hold the fillings in when the hard shell inevitably breaks. Fill each taco with a heaping spoonful of the lentil bean filling. Pack with cheese, salsa, and cilantro. Serve with the lime wedges and share!