Slow Cooker Meatless Taco Filling

Slow Cooker Meatless Taco Filling

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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 4
  • 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

View full nutritional breakdown of Slow Cooker Meatless Taco Filling calories by ingredient


Introduction

This recipe uses TVP (textured vegetable protein) and beans instead of meat for taco filling. My kids and hubby LOVE it!! This recipe uses TVP (textured vegetable protein) and beans instead of meat for taco filling. My kids and hubby LOVE it!!
Number of Servings: 4

Ingredients

    1 Cup TVP (textured vegetable protein)
    1 cup Salsa
    1 cup black beans
    1 cup fat free refried beans
    1/2 packet reduced sodium taco seasoning
    1 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! :)

Member Ratings For This Recipe


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    Incredible!
    6 of 6 people found this review helpful
    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


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    Incredible!
    3 of 3 people found this review helpful
    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


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    Incredible!
    3 of 3 people found this review helpful
    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


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    Incredible!
    2 of 2 people found this review helpful
    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


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    Incredible!
    2 of 2 people found this review helpful
    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