So apparently the Super Bowl is coming up soon? I dunno. I don’t follow football, but I know a lot of you do, so I wanted to give you some budget-y options for football eats! These cute and crispy little Creamy Black Bean Taquitos are really easy, fun to eat, and are totally Super Bowl worthy. Plus, they make a pretty impressive presentation, especially when provided with multiple sauces for dipping.
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Keep Costs and Waste Down
Making a vegetarian taquito means that almost all the ingredients are very budget friendly. Corn tortillas are super cheap, especially when you buy a large pack. If you can’t use 30+ corn tortillas at once, you can freeze half of them or just use the other half to make some homemade baked tortilla chips. Because it isn’t a party without some tortilla chips anyway, right?
You can also cut the cost significantly by using beans that are cooked at home instead of canned. I’m out of my home cooked beans right now, so I had to use canned, but home cooked are usually about 1/3 the cost for me. Here’s a tutorial on how to cook beans easily using a slow cooker.
How to Serve Creamy Black Bean Taquitos
These taquitos are great on their own, but it’s always fun to have something to dip them in. I like salsa for these because the filling is already creamy, but sour cream or guacamole are also nice!
Goes great with: Cowboy Caviar, Warm Corn and Avocado Salad, Fire Roasted Salsa, Best Ever Avocado Dip
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Creamy Black Bean Taquitos
Servings 15 taquitosIngredients
- 4 oz. cream cheese (room temperature) ($1.00)
- 1 15oz. can black beans ($0.95)
- 1 4oz. can diced green chiles ($1.09)
- 2 green onions ($0.21)
- 3 dashes hot sauce (optional) ($0.05)
- 1/8 tsp garlic powder ($0.02)
- 1/8 tsp salt (or to taste) ($0.02)
- 15 6-inch corn tortillas ($1.37)
- 3 Tbsp cooking oil, divided, for frying ($0.12)
Instructions
- Rinse and drain the black beans. Drain the diced green chiles. Slice the green onions. Add the cream cheese, black beans, green chiles, green onion, hot sauce, garlic powder, and salt to a bowl. Stir together until evenly combined, then taste and adjust the salt or hot sauce to your liking.
- Stack 5 tortillas on a plate, cover with a damp paper towel, and microwave for about 20 seconds to soften (this helps prevent them from cracking when rolled). Heat a large non-stick or cast iron skillet over medium heat. Working quickly as the skillet heats, place about 2 Tbsp of the black bean filling in each tortilla then roll tightly closed.
- Once all five are filled, add about 1 Tbsp cooking oil to the skillet, give it a few seconds to heat (it should shimmer), then add the filled taquitos seam side down. Cook the taquitos on each side until brown and crispy, then transfer to a clean plate.
- Repeat the process in small batches of five, adding a little more oil to the skillet each time, until all the filling has been used (about 15 taquitos). Serve while still hot.
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Nutrition
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How to Make Black Bean Taquitos – Step by Step Photos
Start by rinsing and draining a 15oz. can of black beans (or 1.5-2 cups if using homemade). Drain one 4oz. can of diced green chiles. Add 4oz. room temperature cream cheese to a bowl with the black beans, green chiles, 2 sliced green onions, 2-3 dashes of hot sauce, 1/8 tsp garlic powder, and 1/8 tsp salt.
Stir everything together until well combined. Taste the mixture and adjust the salt or hot sauce to your liking. The mixture isn’t very pretty, I’ll admit, but it’s SO tasty!
Working in small batches of about 5 tortillas at a time, place the 6-inch tortillas on a plate, cover with a damp paper towel, and microwave for about 20 seconds to soften them up some. This helps them stay pliable and not crack open when you roll them.
Begin heating a non-stick or cast-iron skillet over medium heat. Working quickly, begin filling each tortilla with about 2 Tbsp of the black bean filling, then rolling tightly. You’ll need less filling than you suspect, I promise. You want the tortilla to wrap around itself at least once, so don’t over fill.
Once the skillet is hot, add about 1 Tbsp cooking oil and swirl to coat the surface. Give it a couple of seconds to heat until it looks shimmery, then add the rolled taquitos seam side down. Let the taquitos cook on each side until golden brown and crispy. Keeping them close together as they cook also helps prevent them from unrolling while in the skillet. You can use the few minutes while they cook to start warming, filling, and rolling the next batch of taquitos. Repeat the process in small batches, adding a little more oil to the skillet each time, until they’re all filled and cooked.
And that’s how you make super simple, delicious, crispy, and creamy black bean taquitos!
I have one very important recipe adjustment. But at least twice the recommended ingredients because these will go VERY fast at parties.
They’re awesome by themselves but might require a per person limit if spicy dips and salsas are on the same table! Sour cream and ranch work for those with less taste for heat but don’t cheat yourself if you can handle mixing them with some spice.
Only used half of the cream cheese, 3 dashes of cumin and my own homemade salsa, rolled them up after heating tortilla and used toothpick to hold shut. Mine did not fall apart nor open in cooking process, they were easy and delish, Thanks for sharing,
That’s good to hear i hope to try these soon.
Delicious!! I made it with a yummy mango salsa.
Used flour soft tortillas and fried them in a pan then put in oven at 350 for 20 minutes. Kids loved it topped with Mexican rice and the cowboy caviar recipe from this website with salsa and sour cream.
Someone in the comments noted that the tortillas roll better if you heat/cook them on the stove rather than microwaving them, and I’d like to second that. Also, I think each batch needs a little more than 1 Tbsp of oil if you want them nice and crispy. I added a little more seasoning to my filling, some cayenne, a little smoke paprika, and little more garlic powder. Once adjusting the oil the came out great, and heating the tortillas over the stove prior to rolling fixed any problems I had when them falling apart during the cooking process.
I made these with flour tortillas and baked them and they were so yummy!
I first made this a couple years back as taquitos, it was a lot of work (for me lol) and while delicious they didn’t hold up well. Enter my idea tonight: make this recipe as quesadillas. I added shredded cheese to the mix and grilled up some! It made about 6 quesadillas (I probably filled them up too much). So good and easy!
Next time I might add corn and extra cheese to make it more filling.
these work much better as a quesadilla, even following the tips given they just kept falling apart trying to cook them as taquitos. great filling mix tho.
I love this recipe but I’m having trouble rolling my tortillas and keeping them from cracking and unrolling when I cook them. They still taste amazing but they are a mess. This is only the second time I’ve made them so maybe I will get better with more practice. Thanks for the great recipe.
If you warm them on a griddle first it will help, corn tortillas have to be cooked before they can fold or roll
This was fantastic. My whole family loved it, even my 11 year old who doesn’t frequently like tex-mex recipes. I did use flour tortillas because that is our family’s tortilla preference. I also followed your recommendation and used beans that I had cooked from dry. I served these with salsa and guacamole for dinner last night. Thank you!
These were wonderful! I served them with grapes tonight for dinner. Following a previous commenter’s instructions I baked them at 425 for 30 minutes. I sprayed the pan with cooking spray before putting the taquitos on it and sprayed the tops of the taquitos as well. I have 5 kids and see this being my go to for their hungry teenage years. Lol! 😂
Have you tried freezing these? Fry half and freeze the other half?
I haven’t tried that, unfortunately. I’m not sure how the corn tortillas would hold up in that rolled state.
I’m excited to try this out! Thank you for giving the nutrition information for each serving. I’m wondering, how many taquitos is one serving? Is it one taquito for the 106 calories?
Yes, the nutrition info is per taquito, since I imagine the number of taquitos someone eats will vary quite a bit from person to person, or if they are served as an appetizer or snack.
Can you bake or air fry these? Thank you
Unfortunately, I don’t have an air fryer, so I can’t advise.
This is misleading, $0.02 for garlic salt lol you have to buy a whole thing of garlic salt if you dont already have it so its not 2 cents its more like $3 this meal costs more than it makes it out to be you cant buy fractions of things you have to buy the whole thing then fraction it. Decent meals but not as cheap as they make it out to be,
Hello. You can read more about how and why we calculate recipe costs the way we do here. While you can’t buy $0.02 worth of garlic salt, you also don’t buy an entirely new container every time you make a recipe using that ingredient. I also don’t consider an ingredient free if I already have it on hand. Therefore, I calculate the cost of the portion used in each particular recipe, and the remainder of the container will be accounted for in each additional recipe calculation.
Can these be stored?
They’re definitely best when fresh, as the tortillas will get soft when refrigerated. That being said, they’ll probably still taste great, just with a different texture. :)