Simple but totally comforting and delicious, bean and cheese tacos are a perfect quick recipe kids and adults will love for dinner on a busy weeknight or meatless Monday! Using only a handful of ingredients these tacos are cheesy and full of flavor.
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Why You Should Make This Recipe
- Not only are bean and cheese tacos absolutely delicious, they're super easy to make and a kid favorite!
- Perfect for a busy weeknight dinner, it's budget friendly too. All you need is canned beans, cheese and tortillas. Customize the tacos with your favorite extras such as guacamole, restaurant stye salsa, avocado jalapeño sauce, cilantro, rice or even add meat like carnitas, beef or chicken.
Key Ingredients and Variations
- Refried beans: I use refried pinto beans, but refried black beans work great too.
- Shredded cheese: I use a mixture of freshly shredded cheddar and mozzarella, but you can use a pre-shredded Mexican blend.
- Flour tortillas: taco size. Can be replaced by any tortilla of choice.
- Toppings: avocado or guacamole, salsa, hot sauce, cilantro, jalapeño, lime.
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How to make Bean and cheese tacos
- Add beans to microwave safe container or sauce pan, and heat up until warm.
- Preheat large skillet on medium heat, add 1-2 tortillas. Add cheese, then close it to make mini quesadillas. Cook for a few minutes until cheese is melted, flip once.
- Carefully open up mini quesadilla, add warm beans, salsa, avocado any toppings of choice. Enjoy!
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Top Tips
- Use freshly shredded cheese like cheddar for a perfect gooey taco if you can. It melts better.
- Make it your own and use this easy simple recipe as the base of others tacos. Add meat, sautéed bell peppers and onions fajita style, or even fresh lettuce.
- Spray the skillet lightly with cooking oil if needed.
- Use seasoned canned refried beans, so convenient and very tasty.
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Bean and Cheese Tacos
Equipment
- spray cooking oil
Ingredients
- 4 flour tortillas - taco size
- 1 cup refried pinto beans
- 1 avocado
- 1 cup shredded cheese
- ½ cup pico de gallo - recipe here
Instructions
- Add the beans to a microwave safe container or sauce pan, and heat up until warm.
- Preheat a large skillet on medium heat, add 1-2 tortillas at a time. Add some cheese, then close it to make mini quesadillas. Cook for a few minutes until the cheese is melted, flip once.
- Carefully open up the mini quesadilla, add the warm beans, salsa, avocado any toppings of choice to your tacos like fresh cilantro or hot sauce. Enjoy!
Notes
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