Rice and Bean Freezer Air-Fryer Taquitos (my new obsession)

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Rice and Bean Freezer Taquitos

Batch-prepare these delicious taquitos, then pull them out for a quick meal or snack.

Cuisine Mexican

Keyword freezer burritos, oil-free, taquitos, vegan, wfpb

Prep Time 30 minutes minutes

Servings 25 taquitos

Author Faith Ralphs

Ingredients

• 3 cups cooked black beans
• 3 cups cooked rice
• 2 tsp onion powder
• 1 TBSP taco seasoning
• 2 TBSP tomato paste
• 2 TBSP lime juice
• 2 cups frozen corn
• salt to taste
• 25 corn tortillas

Instructions

• Stir all the filling ingredients together. Taste, and add additional salt, taco seasoning, or lime juice until it's just right.
• Warm up the corn tortillas by putting them in a clean, damp kitchen towel, and microwaving for 1 minute. If they are not hot, they will crack when rolled. I warm about half of the tortillas at a time.
• Spoon about 1/4 cup (a little less) filling down the middle of each tortilla. Roll up, and place seam-side down onto a baking sheet or plate that will fit inside your freezer. Put a few straight into the oven or air fryer for an immediate meal, too, if you want.

  Carefully transfer them to the freezer, keeping them seam side down and not touching each other. Makes 25-30 taquitos.
• Once frozen, transfer to a ziplock bag and keep in the freezer. Write the directions below on the bag.

To cook

• Put frozen taquitos SEAM SIDE DOWN into an air fryer for 8-10 minutes. Or, bake at 400 degrees for 12-18 minutes, until crisp and golden brown.
• Dip in guacamole, salsa, or plant-based cheese sauce.

Notes

You can also use flour tortillas, if you prefer. 

You can add vegan cheese in each taquito, if you're used to cheese. 

Add sauteed diced mushrooms, bell pepper, spinach, cilantro, zucchini if desired, to add more nutrition! 

No one can deny the convenience of frozen food! Making your own let’s you have the best of all worlds–nutrition, convenience, and saving money. Vegan, gluten-free, oil-free, delicious frozen taquitos do not exist in grocery stores, but if they did, they’d be expensive! These are pennies to make yourself. My kids both love them, and I have a hard time eating fewer than 5 at a time.

Preparing these {cute} taquitos is very easy! I specifically made them EASY to make, because I don’t have a lot of time to batch cook on top of cooking our daily meals. No chopping needed to make these.

Cook up rice and beans, stir together some simple ingredients, fill and roll up the tortillas. Freeze separately on a cookie sheet (seam side down, so they stay rolled up).

Once frozen, transfer to a ziplock bag. There they sit, ready to answer the call when a crispy fam-favorite 10-minute meal is needed.

To cook, put them straight from the freezer into an air fryer for about 10 minutes at 370 degrees, until golden and crispy. (If you don’t have an air fryer, I think it will work to bake them in the oven at 400 degrees for about 12-18 minutes. Let me know if you try it).   Dip them in salsa, guacamole, or homemade plant-based “cheese” sauce.

Stay tuned–I hope to create posts with other varieties of freezer taquitos (and other frozen convenience foods in general!). I think taquitos filled with my lentil walnut taco meat, or a sweet potato black bean filling, or green chili and white beans, or jackfruit would all be scrumptious. For today, enjoy these very simple and yummy taquitos!