Slow Cooker Meatless Taco Filling

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  • Minutes to Prepare:
  • Number of Servings: 4
Ingredients
1 Cup TVP (textured vegetable protein)1 cup Salsa1 cup black beans1 cup fat free refried beans1/2 packet reduced sodium taco seasoning1 cup water
Directions
Add all ingredients to Crockpot, stir to completely wet TVP. Cook on high for 4 hours. Simmering in the crockpot makes the TVP soak up the flavor of the seasonings and the salsa.

The calories/nutritional info is just for the filling. Hard or soft taco shells, chips, and veggies, etc will be additional calories.

You can cut the sodium in this recipe by making your own taco seasoning. There is a recipe for this on SparkRecipes. You can also choose to use dry black beans and cook them yourself, which would cut the salt from using canned beans. Rinsing canned beans before putting them in the crockpot can reduce the sodium by up to 40% as well. And of course, making your own fresh salsa would also cut down the salt. Those changes do up the preparation time quite a bit, but it does remove a lot of the sodium.

My kids and husband just LOVE this recipe! They actually prefer their tacos meatless now. Miracles do happen! :)
Servings Per Recipe: 4
Nutritional Info Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 214.9
  • Total Fat: 0.5 g
  • Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
  • Sodium: 728.4 mg
  • Total Carbs: 32.2 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 12.5 g
  • Protein: 19.9 g

Member Reviews
  • LLHALL01
     This is an amazing recipe!! I recently decided to go vegetarian and have been really missing meat. This definately satisfies my craving for ground beef tacos!! I used a can of organic black beans and organic chili beans. I used my own spices: garlic, onion poweder, chili powder, gr. red pepper - 2/20/10
  • CD12899694
     My husband will only eat meat and never eats leftovers. I made this recipe with tofu crumble and he had 5 tacos the first night, and had left overs 2 other days! I cant thank you enough for this recipe!!! - 8/11/12
  • SHERRIK42
     The only thing I would change for next time would be to cook it on low. My high setting scorched the bottom a little bit. Otherwise, fantastic, great flavor and texture. Made some amazingly delicious tacos. - 11/24/11
  • MJPLOWER
     Excellent! I used lentils instead of beans and omitted the refried beans. I make this all the time now and save leftovers to top homemade nachos, or brown rice and quinoa with salsa, cilantro, sour cream, or whatever else. It is so tasty! A wonderful go-to recipe. - 5/19/12
  • REDROAVER
     The only change I made was to replace half the water with an equal amount of tomato sauce. It was wonderful and my husband didn't even realize it was vegetarian. - 4/13/11
  • BRIGIDS_CHILD
     This was great. My husband loved them, (he's been worried since we decided to go vegetarian that food wasn't going to taste good anymore. This recipe proved him wrong). - 8/31/10
  • CD8369633
     Instead of opening two cans that would not get used, I used one can of refreied black beans. I thought it was good, but family wasn't thrilled. - 5/7/12
  • MEMPHIS_IS2HOT
     I used only "Taco Seasoning (Low Sodium Substitute)", submitted by APRILDAWN678, Morning Star Crumbles and salsa in small crockpot for 4 hours. Added it to the cheese enchiladas I was making and it was amazing! My very picky husband ate the rest of the mix with corn chips- - 11/11/10
  • HUSKERFAN4EVER
     Great recipe. I used an entire can of black beans and skipped the refried beans. Using burrito seasoning instead of taco seasoning is an idea to try! - 6/27/10
  • PATTITHOBE
     I added also a can of fire roasted tomatoes instead of the water. So very very good, I will make this again! - 3/24/10
  • SCORPIOS
     I didn't have TVP or black beans on hand. I used Morning Star Crumbles (vegetarian) and kidney beans. Yum. - 3/6/10
  • CD27698623
     Really good and easy! I used Butler's soy curls (instead of the TVP) and low-sodium black beans. Yum!
    - 5/25/21
  • ROSSYFLOSSY
     Tasty alternative. - 11/20/20
  • PWILLOW1
     Kind of high cal for me. a crunchy taco supreme at Taco Bell is 190 cal. including the shell. I guess it would be a good recipe for vegetarians. It tasted okay but I still prefer meat. - 10/28/20
  • MNABOY
     Good but salty - 9/30/20
  • PICKIE98
     High protein! - 9/24/20
  • MUGABI123
     Worth a try! - 9/8/20
  • ARTJAC
     NICE - 9/2/20
  • CD6913562
     Great meatless tacos! - 6/17/20
  • RAPUNZEL53
     Will try - 11/27/19
  • HOTPINKCAMARO49
     Good! - 10/1/19
  • NASFKAB
     Great - 9/26/19
  • CHERYLHURT
     Great - 7/7/19
  • JAMER123
     I miss the meat. They are good but I will be adding ground beef as we usually do. Good thoughts. - 10/28/18
  • SUSANBEAMON
     It was fine, but I missed the meat flavor. - 10/19/17



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