Oh hey! Another chickpea recipe! I seriously buy cans of chickpeas, black beans, and tomatoes by the dozen at Costco. They’re organic and the cans are BPA-free, if you’re into that kind of thing. I’m more into the non-perishable staples in my pantry at any given moment thing and I got real tired of watching fresh tomatoes turn bad on my counter because I didn’t plan accordingly. But anyway, on to the enchiladas!
This is my own little twist on Vegan Protein Monster Enchiladas. Specifically, we love cheese and the thought of fighting with rolling tortillas full of goo infuriates me, so I never bothered and layered it like a casserole instead. BOOM. Also in the interest of ease and sanity, I’ve been leaning heavily on bottled sauces like Trader Joe’s Enchilada Sauce (or simmering a bunch of autumn veggies in their Thai Red Curry Sauce, but that’s a recipe for a different day.)
This usually feeds us for two days, but my bigger casserole dish went missing, so last time I made it in a 9×9 pan instead and served the extra filling with chilaquiles in the morning! I’m not even mad 😅
Veggie Enchilada “Casserole”
Ingredients
- 1 onion
- 1 Bell pepper
- 15 oz. Can black beans
- 15 oz. Can chickpeas
- 1/3 cup nutritional yeast
- 2 tsp cumin
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 15 oz. can tomatoes
- 6 flour tortillas
- 1 bottle enchilada sauce (I like Trader Joe’s)
- Shredded Mexican cheese
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Dice onion and bell pepper.
- In a large skillet over medium heat, saute onion and bell pepper for about 8 minutes.
- Meanwhile drain and rinse beans.
- When onions are tender, reduce heat and add cumin, paprika, tomatoes, nutritional yeast, garbanzo and black beans. Stir well. Heat for 4-5 minutes then set aside.
- In a lightly sprayed 9×13 baking dish, layer sauce, tortillas, bean mixture, tortillas, sauce, bean mixture, tortillas, sauce, shredded cheese.
- Bake for about 25 minutes.
This is really great! I had never used Nutritional Yeast before.