Vegan Sunflower Seed Taco Meat
This easy vegan sunflower seed taco meat is perfect for those with nut allergies! Just 8 ingredients needed! Quick vegan dinner recipe idea!
Servings: 4 people
Calories: 460kcal
Ingredients
- 2 cups unsalted sunflower seeds
- 1 red onion
- 4 cloves garlic
- ¼ cup sun dried tomatoes in oil (*See post if avoiding oil)
- 1 tablespoon avocado (or olive) oil
- 1 tbsp taco seasoning
- 2 teaspoon no soy soy sauce (sub for soy sauce, coconut aminos, tamari)
- 1 juice of a lime
Instructions
- Soak sunflower seeds in a bowl, covered with water overnight.
- Drain water. Put them into a food processor and pulse until you have meat like crumbles. *Be careful not to over process or you will end up with sunflower butter.
- Chop onions, garlic, and sun dried tomatoes very fine.
- Add oil to a skillet, and saute your onions until translucent (about 2-3 minutes).
- Add in the garlic for 1 more minute.
- Sprinkle the taco seasoning across and stir to combine.
- Add in sun-dried tomatoes. Cook for 1 more minute.
- Add in the crumbled sunflower seeds and stir very well.
- Pour in the no soy sauce (or substitute) and the lime juice. Stir well.
- Cook for another 4-5 minutes.
- Take off the stove and serve.
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Notes
**Nutritional facts are just estimates. Please utilize your own brand nutritional values to double check against our estimates.
*Please see notes for tips and tricks
*Sunflower seeds never truly loose all their crunch so keep that in mind when making this recipe.
Nutrition
Serving: 0.5cup | Calories: 460kcal | Carbohydrates: 21g | Protein: 15g | Fat: 39g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Sodium: 247mg | Potassium: 609mg | Fiber: 7g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 184IU | Vitamin C: 16mg | Calcium: 73mg | Iron: 4mg