Oven Roasted Cauliflower Taco Recipe is a vegetarian taco recipe that's easy to make, flavorful and nutritious. Cauliflower rice combines with sauteed mushrooms creating a meaty flavorful vegetarian taco filling!
Taco Tuesday just keeps showing up week after week and sometimes you need to keep things spicy and change up your tacos!
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Cauliflower Taco Recipe
Cauliflower Tacos are a meatless alternative to traditional ground beef tacos and will quickly become a family favorite recipe.
Make your tacos meatless with our cauliflower taco meat and I guarantee you'll never miss the meat when you make Oven Roasted Cauliflower Tacos.
Baby bella mushrooms team up with oven-roasted cauliflower rice as a fabulous flavorful substitute for a ground beef taco filling.
Baby bella mushrooms not only add a meaty flavor, they are also low in calories, are a low-fat source of dietary fiber and provide B vitamins and potassium.
Add in seasonings and tomato paste and you'll be craving these vegetarian tacos on Meatless Monday and again on Taco Tuesday!
When cauliflower slow roasts to delicious goodness and then combines with mushrooms giving a meaty flavor to this meatless taco filling, I would say that your Taco Tuesday just got a whole lot more delicious this week.
Oven Roasted Cauliflower Tacos provide a punch of nutrition too!
When plant based taco meat is brimming with cauliflower and mushrooms you know it’s going to be a delicious meal filled with the nutrition of fresh vegetables.
Looks like you just got a new vegetarian taco recipe to add to your recipe rotation!
A fun way to serve tacos is on a taco charcuterie board!
Jalapeno Cheddar Cornbread is the perfect side dish for your Taco Tuesday dinners.
Check out all this information on cauliflower, including what does cauliflower taste like!
Check out all the Taco Tuesday recipes I have here for you at Swirls!
Got leftover taco filling? You’re going to want to make some of these recipes with taco meat!
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Whole30 Recipe
Are you doing Whole30 this month?
By simply substituting lettuce leaves for the tortillas you will have yourself a new Whole30 recipe! Make Oven Roasted Cauliflower Taco Lettuce Wraps and keep to your Whole30 program.
Be sure you're doing it right! Check out all you need to know about Whole30 at the Whole30 website.
How to make cauliflower tacos
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- Preheat oven to 425F.
- Toss cauliflower rice and 2 Tbs. olive oil until evenly coated.
- Arrange in an even layer on a large baking sheet and roast until lightly browned.
- Meanwhile, heat the remaining 1 Tbs. oil in large non-stick skillet over medium-high heat.
- Cook chopped mushrooms, onion, and taco seasoning until mushrooms have released their liquid and it is cooked off and mixture is tender, stirring occasionally.
- Stir in roasted cauliflower, water and tomato paste and cook until heated through.
- Serve on tortillas with lettuce and salsa.
Cauliflower FAQs
What are the benefits of eating cauliflower?
There are many benefits to eating cauliflower. Cauliflower provides impressive amounts of:
- beta-carotene
- vitamin C
- vitamin K
Cauliflower also:
- has anti-inflammatory properties
- is anti-oxidant rich
- supports healthy digestion
- is low in calories
- helps with detoxification
So many great reasons to increase your cauliflower intake!
Can you roast cauliflower in advance?
It is best to roast cauliflower right before you are ready to serve it and not in advance.
Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tips
- Make this recipe with white button mushrooms
- Top with sour cream
- Add a dollop of guacamole
- You can buy ready-made cauliflower rice in the produce or frozen sections of your grocery store or make your own
- Try our homemade taco seasoning recipe!
Variations
- Drizzle buffalo sauce over the filling for buffalo cauliflower tacos
- Love spicy? Serve with tabasco sauce or sriracha for spicy cauliflower tacos
- Make a taco bowl and serve the cauliflower taco filling over a bed of lettuce, lentils or rice
Substitutions
- You can substitute white mushrooms, shitake mushrooms, or your favorite type of mushroom for the baby bella mushrooms
- Serve the cauliflower filling in taco shells or on corn tortillas instead of on flour tortillas
Storage
Have leftover taco filling? Transfer the taco filling to an airtight container, cover and refrigerate.
The filling will last 2-3 days in the refrigerator.
To reheat, microwave, or heat in a skillet, until the taco filling is heated through.
Ingredients
You will need the following ingredients for your cauliflower tacos:
- olive oil
- baby bella mushrooms
- onion
- Taco Seasoning
- water
- tomato paste
- soft flour tortillas
- lettuce
- salsa
- lime wedges
Decorations for a taco party
Taco time is a good time for a taco party! Tacos are the best party food and always put me in a fiesta state of mind!
If you decide to actually go all out and have a taco party, you definitely must start with hanging this Taco About A Party Banner (this makes me crack up every time!).
Then add a colorful Serepe Plastic Tablecloth, or this set of hand woven serape table runners in fextive colors or both!
These adorable Fiesta Paper Striped Party Straws with Tacos, Sombreros and more are fun too.
A taco serving plate with all the sections is an ideal way to serve all your favorite toppings.
And while we're on the topic of tacos. be sure to don your let's taco about it t-shirt (again, cracking up here!) and let the fiesta begin!
Easy Taco Recipes
Go for the beef and season slices of juicy skirt steak with a few basic spices and enjoy them nestled in a crunchy corn shell topped with a lime-scented mixture of fresh heirloom tomatoes. Spiced Skirt Steak Tacos are a party in your mouth with a burst of flavor in every bite!
Make a Brown Rice Taco Bowl , with seasoned beef and salsa, creamy avocado, juicy tomatoes, cheddar cheese and red onion over good-for-you brown rice. All the flavors of a taco in a bowl for your next Taco Tuesday!
Change up Taco Tuesday with Taco Stuffed Potatoes, a twist on the traditional taco. Tender fluffy potatoes are topped with a saucy beef mixture, your favorite taco toppings and a surprise crunch of corn chips! Ready in just 25 minutes, Taco Tuesday just got a facelift!
Now here's a full size pizza with a cauliflower crust that you purchase in the frozen section of your grocery store. Taco Pizza With Cauliflower Crust puts a delicious twist on Taco Tuesday! Our pizza has all the fillings of a taco on a healthy plant-based cauliflower crust for a fun taco dinner that will quickly become a family favorite.
Or just let your imagination run wild and combine your favorite foods, tacos and buffalo chicken, and make Buffalo Chicken Tacos! Fill a taco with saucy spicy buffalo chicken topped with celery, carrots, tomatoes and creamy Roquefort blue cheese.
What to make it you’re eating vegan and it’s Taco Tuesday? Vegan Chickpea Tacos With Peach Salsa is an easy vegan recipe that’s packed with the protein of chickpeas and topped with a lime-scented fresh peach salsa! Now you can eat a plant based diet and have your tacos too!
Oven Roasted Cauliflower Taco Recipe
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Ingredients
- 3 cups packed cauliflower rice, about 12 ounces
- 3 Tbs. olive oil, divided
- 1 pkg. (10 ounces) baby bella mushrooms, finely chopped, 3 cups
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 2 Tbs. Taco seasoning
- 1 cup water
- 1/4 cup tomato paste
- 1/2 tsp. kosher salt
- 12 soft flour tortillas, warmed (See recipe notes for Whole30 alternative)
- 4 cups shredded lettuce
- 1 recipe fresh tomato salsa or your favorite store bought salsa
- lime wedges, serving suggestion
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Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425F.
- Toss cauliflower rice and 2 Tbs. olive oil until evenly coated.
- Arrange in an even layer on a large baking sheet. Roast 25 minutes or until lightly browned.
- Meanwhile, heat remaining 1 Tbs. oil in large non-stick skillet over medium-high heat. Cook chopped mushrooms, onion and taco seasoning until mushrooms have released their liquid and it is cooked off and mixture is tender, stirring occasionally.
- Stir in roasted cauliflower, water and tomato paste and cook until heated through.
- Serve on tortillas with lettuce and salsa.
Notes
- Make this recipe with white button mushrooms
- Top with sour cream
- Add a dollop of guacamole
- You can buy ready-made cauliflower rice or make your own
- Try our homemade taco seasoning recipe!
- Drizzle buffalo sauce over the filling for buffalo cauliflower tacos
- Love spicy? Serve with tabasco sauce or sriracha for spicy cauliflower tacos
- Make a taco bowl and serve the cauliflower taco filling over a bed of lettuce, lentils or rice
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