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    Home » Recipes » Tacos

    30+ Vegan Taco Ideas and Rainy Day Everything Tacos

    Published: Sep 12, 2017 · Modified: Jul 29, 2022 by Abi Cowell · As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases · See my privacy policy linked in footer · This blog uses cookies

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    What to cook on a rainy day? Tacos! Delicious for breakfast, lunch or dinner, make easy vegan tacos with whatever you have on hand. Keep reading for over 30 taco filling ideas and top seasonings for TexMex food.

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    • 30+ vegan, plant-based taco filling ideas
    • How to season tacos or TexMex food
    • Rainy day breakfast ideas
    • Rainy day dinner ideas
    • 🗺 Cultural influences
    • 💜 More recipes you'll love
    • 📖 Recipe
    • 💬 Reviews
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    Filling options for tacos are almost limitless. Here are some easy ideas of different fillings you can throw in a tortilla and have delicious plant-based tacos in no time!

    30+ vegan, plant-based taco filling ideas

    1. 🥔 Potatoes - Oven roasted with garlic, ground cumin, chili powder & salt
    2. 🥔 Potatoes - Papas a la Mexicana style: pre-cooked steamed potatoes sautéed with onions, jalapeño, tomato, garlic and cilantro
    3. 🥔 Hash browns
    4. 🍠 Sweet potatoes - roasted or mashed with spices
    5. 🧅 Onions - sautéed/charred, caramelized or raw
    6. 🫑 Bell Peppers - sautéed/charred or raw
    7. 🫑 Poblano Pepper - fire roasted, skin removed and chopped
    8. 🌶 Jalapeños - pickled, sautéed or raw
    9. 🍅 Tomatoes
    10. 🌽 Corn - steamed or roasted
    11. Black Beans - whole, seasoned with cumin and garlic
    12. Black Beans - mashed or refried
    13. Pinto Beans - whole, seasoned with Mexican oregano, garlic, onion
    14. Pinto Beans - vegan spicy charro beans
    15. Pinto Beans - mashed or refried (make sure they're vegetarian)
    16. 🍄 Mushrooms - sautéed or grilled
    17. 🥕 Carrot
    18. Zucchini or Yellow Summer Squash - sautéed or grilled
    19. 🥬 Spinach - raw or cooked
    20. 🥬 Kale - cooked or mixed in other veggies
    21. 🥬 Lettuce - shredded on top or used instead of tortilla
    22. Purple cabbage - shredded
    23. 🥑 Avocado - sliced raw or turned into green salsa
    24. Butternut squash - roasted or mashed
    25. Baked tofu with TexMex seasonings
    26. Cashew sour cream or Silken Tofu sour cream
    27. 🍅 Pico de Gallo
    28. 🥑 Guacamole
    29. 🧀 Vegan chile con queso nacho cheese sauce
    30. 🧅 Pickled Purple Onions
    31. 🥕 Pickled Carrots and Onions
    32. 🌶 Pickled Sliced Jalapeños
    33. Baked tortilla strips - for crunch
    34. Quinoa - cooked with taco seasoning or any of the below seasonings
    35. 🍚 Rice - plain, Spanish rice or Cilantro Lime Rice
    36. 🥦 Cauliflower - roasted or "riced" with taco seasoning
    37. 🥦 Broccoli - roasted or raw, cut into tiny pieces
    cooking potatoes and beans

    How to season tacos or TexMex food

    To give your tacos a TexMex flavor, consider adding some of the below seasonings to your ingredients as they cook. Don't add them all - just pick a few.

    1. 🧄 Garlic (fresh or granulated garlic)
    2. Ground cumin
    3. 🌱 Cilantro
    4. 🌶 Chile powder
    5. 🌶 Cayenne
    6. 🍋 Lime juice
    7. 🌱 Mexican oregano
    8. 🌱 Bay leaf (for cooking beans)
    9. 🌶 Jalapeño pepper
    10. 🌶 Serrano pepper
    11. 🌶 Habanero pepper (really hot)
    12. 🌶 Chipotle pepper powder or chipotles in adobo sauce
    13. Prepared pico de gallo (salsa fresca)
    14. Red salsa or picante sauce
    15. Green salsa
    16. Cilantro sauce
    17. Prepared hot sauce, like Cholula or Chipotle Tabasco
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    Rainy day breakfast ideas

    On a rainy day, you just don't feel like going anywhere. And, you want something equally comforting and uplifting.

    Here's what I reach for on a rainy day to brighten my morning. These are all vegan breakfast recipes.

    • Hot tea! My favorites: Black tea with soy milk or oat milk, Apricot peach rooibos tea, Coconut oolong tea or peppermint tea.
    • Bake something (especially if it's cold & rainy)
      • Super quick & easy: 3-Ingredient Banana Oat Breakfast Cookies
      • Indulgent: Vegan Banana Bread
    • Quick and easy breakfast, if you're running low on energy, like:
      • Breakfast Couscous with Strawberries and Banana
      • Simple Maple Oatmeal
      • Healthy Hash Browns
    • If you have time to spare, make a comforting, weekend brunch-style breakfast, to brighten your mood and delight your family
      • Vegan Chorizo Potato Breakfast Tacos
      • Breakfast Tacos with Spinach, Sweet Potato and Spicy Charro Beans
      • Vegan Pumpkin Bread
    • Vegan Chorizo Potato Breakfast Tacos
    • Breakfast Couscous Bowl with Banana and Strawberries
    • 3 Ingredient Banana Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies (no egg, no flour)
    • Vegan Banana Bread with Applesauce
    • Simple Maple Oatmeal with Sliced Banana
    • Healthy Hash Browns (air fryer or stovetop)
    • Breakfast Tacos with Spinach, Sweet Potato and Spicy Charro Beans
    • Vegan Pumpkin Bread

    Rainy day dinner ideas

    Vegan or vegetarian dinner ideas on a rainy day have to easy and effortless, so you can get to relaxing and enjoying the pitter patter of the rain.

    I asked a Facebook group what they love to cook on a rainy day and the #1 answer was: Soup or Chili.

    Some of my go-to quick and easy dinner ideas, that are also comforting and filling:

    • Lazy Vegan Chili (instant pot or stovetop)
    • Sesame Noodles - super slurpy and addictive. Serve with non-starchy veggies, like broccoli, cauliflower or greens.
    • Jamaican Rice and Pigeon Peas - if you don't have pigeon peas, use canned kidney beans instead for a still-authentic version.
    • Easy Tomato Vegetable Soup
    • Lazy Vegan Chili (instant pot or stovetop)
    • Sesame Noodles (vegan)
    • Jamaican Rice and Pigeon Peas (vegan)
    • Easy Tomato Vegetable Soup for the Soul

    🗺 Cultural influences

    How did this recipe come about?

    We were onto day five of hunkering down during Hurricane Harvey’s onslaught of rain over Houston and were so thankful to be safe and dry. Not only that, we still had food, water, power and gas for cooking.

    We were, and still are, beyond grateful that our experience during the storm was mild, especially since we were taking care of my wheel-chair bound mother-in-law.

    Our food options were starting to dwindle a bit and the roads were still flooded. I made all manner of meals over the previous four days to satisfy the five of us.

    Each day, worried that we would lose electricity and/or water, I was in a cooking frenzy to use up the food in our fridge so it wouldn't spoil and so we'd have plenty of prepared food ready to eat by candlelight, if the need arose.

    The morning of day five, I pulled out whatever fresh veggies we still had and chopped them up and threw them in a pan to make some quick and easy tacos.

    Add some spices, frozen corn, black beans, a can of vegetarian refried beans and some corn tortillas and we have breakfast, folks!

    These could be called "Everything but the Kitchen Sink" tacos.

    Or, "Whatever you have on hand" tacos.

    Or, "Clean Out the Frig" Tacos.

    But, I decided to go with "Rainy Day Everything Tacos", because we pulled everything together for a nutritious and filling meal on this rainy, rainy day.

    💜 More recipes you'll love

    If you love tacos, check out these other plant-based TexMex recipes.

    • Quick and Easy Seasoned Vegan Black Beans
    • 5-Minute Vegan Black Bean Dip
    • Easy Vegan Avocado Tostadas, 3 Ways
    • Vegan Refried Black Beans (fat-free, oil-free)

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    📖 Recipe

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    Black Bean Potato Tacos

    Abi Cowell
    Throw whatever fresh or frozen veggies, beans and potatoes you have on hand together for quick and easy "everything but the kitchen sink" tacos. Makes 10 tacos.
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    Estimated Cost: $3
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    Prep Time 5 mins
    Cook Time 15 mins
    Total Time 20 mins
    Course Tacos
    Cuisine TexMex
    Servings 4
    Calories 418 kcal

    Equipment

    • Non-stick skillet
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    Ingredients
     
     

    • 1 purple onion diced
    • 1 large carrot peeled and diced
    • 3 mushrooms sliced
    • 1 cup frozen corn
    • 1 potato pre-cooked or steamed potato, cut into cubes
    • 1 cup spinach rough chopped
    • 15 ounces canned black beans drained and rinsed
    • 2 tablespoons salsa
    • ½ teaspoon garlic powder
    • ½ teaspoon ground cumin
    • ¼ teaspoon chili powder
    • ¼ teaspoon sea salt
    • freshly ground black pepper
    • 15 ounces canned refried beans fat-free vegetarian
    • 10 corn tortillas
    • hot sauce to taste

    Instructions
     

    • Heat wide pan over medium high heat and add onions and carrots. Saute for 3-5 minutes. Add a tablespoon of water if it starts to stick.
      1 purple onion, 1 large carrot
    • Reduce heat to medium and add mushrooms. Saute 1-2 minutes.
      3 mushrooms
    • Add corn, potato, spinach, black beans, salsa and spices, stir and cook until heated through.
      1 cup frozen corn, 1 potato, 1 cup spinach, 15 ounces canned black beans, 2 tablespoons salsa, ½ teaspoon garlic powder, ½ teaspoon ground cumin, ¼ teaspoon chili powder, ¼ teaspoon sea salt, freshly ground black pepper
    • Add refried beans to bowl with 1 tablespoon of water. Stir and heat in microwave for 60-90 seconds, with a paper towel or cover on top.
      15 ounces canned refried beans
    • Heat corn tortillas one at a time over open flame on stove, for 10-15 seconds each side. Keep warm on a plate lined with a clean kitchen towel. Alternatively, you can heat them in a dry skillet or in the microwave.
      10 corn tortillas
    • To assemble, spread a little refried beans down the middle of the tortilla, then top with veggies and hot sauce.
      hot sauce

    Notes

    If you don't already have a baked potato on hand for this recipe, you can bake one in the microwave, Instant Pot or oven. The microwave is fastest, only taking a few minutes until it's "stick a fork in it, it's done!"

    Nutrition

    Serving: 2.5tacosCalories: 418kcalCarbohydrates: 83gProtein: 18gFat: 3gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 1273mgPotassium: 1004mgFiber: 20gSugar: 6gVitamin A: 3427IUVitamin C: 22mgCalcium: 158mgIron: 5mg
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    About Abi Cowell

    Hey y'all! I’m the plant-based food blogger, recipe developer, photographer and cooking class instructor behind Very Veganish. Join me as we explore and taste incredible plant-based food, with cultural influences from around the world. You’ll find healthy comfort food vegan recipes and inspiration here. When I'm not cooking, you'll find me homeschooling my two boys, volunteering and trying to survive the Texas summers with copious glasses of iced tea.

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