Meatless Monday: Mexican Inspired Vegetable Dish

 MrB and I are trying to eat vegetarian once a week (as the regular readers would know) and we have decided to join in on the Meatless Monday revolution. A dedicated night of no meat. I also love how this follows the indulgent weekends - it just feels lighter and healthier.

I love Mexican style food. With limited Mexican products and restaurants in South Africa this is a real challenge. Not all stores carry tacos, nachos and torillas. Even fewer stores have refried beans. But I love how vegetables and chillies with a nice dollop of guacomole just go together.

 

Recently we were dead set on making vegetable taco's only to find out that our tacos had been crushed. So instead we had to be creative and a Mexican Fiesta. I hope you try this recipe as this was just too delicious

Mexican Vegetable Fiesta

 

Vegetable Oil

Selection of vegetables, chopped into equal sizes (we used mushrooms, mange tout, green beans, carrots and baby corn)

Bottled Tomato Salsa (this is to add a sauciness to the veggies, you can use a mexican sauce if you can find one. Or make your own tomato salsa style sauce)

Tacos (broken into chips) or Nachos

Guacomole (blend avo, lemon juice, chopped onion, chopped tomato and coriander, season to taste)

Cheddar Cheese

 

Heat your oil in a large non stick pan. Fry your vegetables for about 5 minutes. Add the tomato salsa and cook until the vegetables are soft.

Set out your broken tacos on a plate
Top with the fried vegetables
Add guacomole and sprinkle cheese on top
Optional: add chillies to your vegetable mix

Dig in and enjoy!

 

 

For a laugh, go check out this video of a a guy that photoshops ads using people while they are waiting for the bus - too funny!