Impromptu Taco Lunch Gluten Free Whole Foods Plant Based


To me, whole foods plant based means eating minimally processed foods very infrequently.  Today was one of those days.

The processed foods that I used were Siete Gluten Free Cassava and Coconut Tortillas.  Ignore the price on this page... that's for 6 packs of them from the manufacturer.  I'm just showing you the link so you can see the product and the ingredients.  While coconut oil is one of the ingredients, two tortillas is only 3 grams of fat.  These things are NOT dripping in oil/fat.

The other one is Well Your World's Asian Everything Sauce.  No sugar or oil (and by the taste of it, no salt either).

So here's the fixin's:

  • Gluten free tortillas
  • 1 can of no/low salt black beans 
  • Some leftover brown rice (probably under a cup)
  • Two broken up (homemade) veggie burgers
  • Some of the Asian sauce (maybe a couple tablespoons)
  • Shredded cabbage
  • 1 carrot cut into matchsticks
  • Hummus (homemade)
  • Lime juice
So I popped the frozen tortillas into a warming oven because I tried to warm one in my non-stick pan, but it was definitely sticking.

So I used the pan instead for the filling.  I drained and rinsed the beans and put them into the pan (medium heat) adding the leftover cooked rice.  My veggie burgers (which are homemade) were straight from the freezer... I just broke them into large chunks into the mix.  Then I stirred gently and added water along with some of the Asian sauce until it was heated through.


I put some hummus onto the tortilla, added the raw veggies and the heated mix, then squeezed some lime juice over the whole thing.



BTW, I have three recipes for homemade veggie burgers and they all freeze well.  Check the index below.  I forgot to write down my hummus recipe so I'll try to do that next time I make it.

Index of all my recipes

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