Chickpea Tacos with Cilantro Lime Sauce

Best vegetarian chickpea tacos! Quick and easy Mexican chickpeas with a special blend of spices topped with an amazing cilantro lime sauce, avocado, lettuce, more cilantro and jalapeños. These garbanzo bean tacos are perfect for weeknight dinners and might soon become a family favorite.

Course Main Course

Cuisine Mexican

Keyword chcikpea taco recipe, chickpea tacos, easy chickpea taco, garbanzo bean tacos, vegetarian taco recipe

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 2

Servings servings

Calories 583kcal

Author Maria Doss

Ingredients

1 recipe Mexican chickpeas

Cilantro lime Sauce

½ cup sour cream
¼ cup mayonnaise
1 cup lightly packed cilantro
1 tablespoon lime juice
1 small jalapeño (deseeded if you like it less spicy)
1 garlic clove
½ teaspoon salt or to taste

Additional ingredients

1 small avocado, chopped or mashed
chopped lettuce
chopped cilantro
sliced jalapeños
4 corn tortillas

Instructions

Make cilantro lime sauce

Add all ingredients into a small food processor or blender. Blend until smooth and creamy.
Refrigerate until ready to use.

Char tortillas

Turn your gas burner to medium-low and using tongs, place the tortillas one at a time directly over the flame. As soon as they start to brown, give them a quick flip to color the other side and then pull them off. Alternatively, you can cook tortillas on a cast iron skillet. Place tortilla in a cast iron skillet, warmed over medium-high heat, for about 15 to 30 seconds on each side. You want to look few browned or darkened spots on both sides.
Keep them warm wrapped in a clean kitchen towel.

Assemble tacos

Add some mashed or avocado, Mexican chickpeas, chopped lettuce, additional cilantro and sliced jalapeños.
(I choose to go with mashed avocado since it offers a squishy bed for all chickpeas to be nestled on)

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Notes

Char corn tortillas –

Turn your gas burner to medium-low and using tongs, place the tortillas one at a time directly over the flame. As soon as they start to brown, give them a quick flip to color the other side and then pull them off. Alternatively, you can cook tortillas on a cast iron skillet. Place tortilla in a cast iron skillet, warmed over medium-high heat, for about 15 to 30 seconds on each side. You want to look few browned or darkened spots on both sides.

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