Sheet-Pan Tostadas With Black Beans and Peppers

This is excellent for when you need a tasty and spicy vegan meal. Problems with it are: if you count your chopping/slicing time, it takes considerably longer than an hour, ingredients are not cheap and you end up with a lot of them left-over that will go bad on you if you don't use them quickly-sage, thyme, cilantro, chipotles. It would be nice to have a feature as part of this site where you could put in the things that you have and it would find recipes that use them.

Love this combo. But why 3 sheet pans?? This would be so much easier to make with one skillet and one sheet pan. Sauté all veggies together in the pan and use the sheet pan to crisp the tortillas.

I make something like this, but I don't use the oil or the salt on the tortillas. I crisp them at 350, then top with refried beans to anchor other toppings (meat, guacamole, whatever!) then top with grated cheese then put back in the oven to melt the cheese. Chopped cabbage dressed with lime and salt is the final topping. it's a great fast dinner that everyone loves. A topping of potatoes cooked w browned burger or leftover roast beef is particularly good. Not vegetarian, of course!

Didn’t bother with tortillas. Served over brown rice. Substituted smoked paprika for chipotle. Did bean tomato mix on stovetop. Added line juice at end..

Thank you for publishing vegetarian recipes!! So amazing and helpful. More plant-based recipes please :)

...also, it won't feed 4-6. more like 2-3

This is a tasty combination of flavors. But if I make again, I’ll make two changes: use less oil and not bother with the sheet pans. I made according to the instructions as I thought the sheet pan roasting might add something to the vegetables. It didn’t. Also 1/2 cup of oil reduced the peppers and onion to a greasy pile. Two tablespoons would have been plenty and sautéing would have lent a brighter cleaner taste to the veg.

I pop extra chipotle peppers in adobo sauce in the freezer snd dig out a bit from the can as needed.

"Google Cooking" is what we call it, and I do it a couple times a month to use up random ingredients in the fridg and pantry. Google the ingredients you want to use together, plus the word "recipe." Bam! Ideas. Use your judgment about compatibility of ingredients (pickles and cream sauce - nope).

Mary Beth There are 3,590 Easy Recipes on this site. Just type in "Easy" in the search. Myself, I am here for great recipes. Melissa Clark is an artist with food. It's not surprising to me that her recipes take time and effort. Well worth it to me when I have the time to take them on.

Easy solution to the tortilla texture problem (a problem I've also had) is to skip the attempt at crunchy altogether and serve these as tacos, with warmed corn tortillas. Also saves dirtying (and needing to own) an extra sheet pan! The tortllas can be wrapped in foil (the whole stack together in one foil packet) and tossed in the oven for about 5 minutes to warm up or toasted one by one in a skillet; the latter is tastier, but a bit less convenient for a crowd.

We loved the flavors. Even my spice averse kid ate the chipotle chile beans. I think the mix of toppings would also be good over rice. I couldn’t seem to get the right texture on the corn tortillas - they were too chewy and hard to get a bite. Any suggestions are welcome - I followed the instructions and it took a lot longer to get them crisp and the texture was still not good.

Awesome recipe! I did mash the beans before cooking so they wouldn't roll out from the tortillas.

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This was delicious!! My entire family loved it. We made it exactly as written. It took a lot longer to prepare than one hour. We'll definitely be having this again.