Tacos Dorados with Refried Beans (tacos de frijoles)
Crispy golden tacos these tacos dorados are filled with refried beans and make for a delicious treat.
Servings: 12 tacos
Calories: 342kcal
Ingredients
- 3 cups cooked beans* pinto or black beans
- 1.5 Tablespoons oil
- ¼ cup chopped white onion
- 12 corn tortillas
- 1 cup vegetable oil for frying
Toppings
- 2 cups chopped lettuce
- ½ cup chopped white onion
- 1 large roma tomato sliced
- 4 whole radishes sliced or chopped
- ½ cup Mexican sour cream use my vegan crema recipe
- 1 cup grated cheese I used VioLlife manchego cheese
- 1 cup salsa taquera use my recipe
Instructions
Make The Refried Beans
- Heat a little bit of olive oil in a large pan. Once hot sauté the 1/4 chopped onion until soft. Then carefully pour in the cooked beans with a little bit of their broth or water or vegetable broth.
- Mash until smooth to your preferred texture. Salt if necessary. Cook for 8 minute or until they've thickened.
- Remove from heat and allow to come to room temperature.
Prepare Your Garnishes
- Decide what toppings you want to use and get them ready while the beans cool down.
Make The Refried Bean Tacos Dorados
- Pour the cup of vegetable oil into a frying pan. Allow to heat up over medium low heat.
- Grab a warmed corn tortilla then place a heaping Tablespoon of the cooled refried beans onto one half. Fold over into half moon pockets. Use two toothpicks to seal the sides. (Watch the video for a visual) If you'd like you can roll up the tacos instead of doing the half moon shapes.
- Repeat filling the tortillas until you've used up all of the ingredients or until you have enough to fry the first batch.
- Very carefully test that the oil is hot enough by putting a wooden spoon into it. If you see immediate bubbles form around it then it's hot enough and ready.
- Use tongs to place the folded tacos into the hot oil - careful not to splash yourself. Add a couple more tacos or only enough so that you don't crowd them into the pan.
- Fry for 5 minutes or until you can see the tortilla change to a darker golden color. Carefully flip over and fry another 3 minutes.
- Drain fried tacos on a plate lined with paper towels. Continue frying the remaining tacos until you are done.
- Allow to cool until you can handle then remove the toothpicks from each taco.
- Serve 3 tacos on a plate and begin layering on the toppings of your choice on top of the tacos. Some people also like to partly open the tacos and stuff the toppings into them. Either is fine and completely up to you. Enjoy!
Notes
*You can use homemade or canned beans. Either pinto beans or black beans work great.
Please notice that the calorie and nutrition information are rough estimates and will highly depend on if you use homemade or store-bought beans as well as what garnishes you use.
Nutrition
Serving: 12servings | Calories: 342kcal | Carbohydrates: 22g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 26g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 12g | Monounsaturated Fat: 7g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 15mg | Sodium: 385mg | Potassium: 306mg | Fiber: 5g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 580IU | Vitamin C: 4mg | Calcium: 124mg | Iron: 1mg
