These vegan fajitas are daring, flavorful and straightforward sufficient for busy weeknights! With simply quarter-hour of prep time earlier than baking within the oven, you’ll have a wholesome, plant-based dinner on the desk with minimal effort.
Why You’ll Love This
Oyster mushrooms are the star ingredient in our vegan fajitas! They provide a meaty, hearty texture whereas absorbing all of the scrumptious taste from the fajita marinade. Baking them on the sheet pan permits their edges to get deliciously crispy.
For added protein, bake crispy tofu alongside, utilizing the identical marinade. Whereas the oven does its magic, make a fast batch of straightforward guacamole (no chopping concerned) to unfold on the tortillas earlier than filling- holding every thing collectively.
Serve the fajitas with heat tortillas, lime wedges, sizzling sauce, and vegan bitter cream, and also you’ll have completely satisfied mouths throughout!
Vegan Fajitas Components
- Oyster mushrooms: Or use king oyster mushrooms or a combo of each. The feel mimics a form of “vegan hen”.
- Bell peppers and crimson onions: Use inexperienced bell peppers, yellow bell peppers, and crimson bell peppers for a lift of coloration.
- Additional agency tofu: elective, for added protein, plus tofu takes on the flavour of the marinade so effectively! Or sub-blackbeans!
- Cornstarch: Non-obligatory, however helps the tofu obtain a crispy exterior.
- Additional virgin olive oil – to crisp up the veggies.
- Marinade spices: Chili powder, granulated garlic (or sub minced garlic cloves), smoked paprika, floor cumin, floor coriander, salt, dried oregano, and floor chipotle or cayenne.
- For serving: Lime wedges, small tortillas, avocado, recent cilantro, vegan bitter cream or chipotle mayo, sizzling sauce, inexperienced onion, or pickled onions.
Make Vegan Fajitas
Preheat the oven to 400F.
The first step: Gently pat dry the tofu (if utilizing) and set on prime of two layers of paper towels.
Step two: Combine the marinade components collectively in a small bowl.
Step three: Collect a big mixing bowl, and tear aside the oyster mushrooms into strips and place within the bowl.
Add the bell pepper and onion slices, together with simply sufficient marinade to calmly coat.
Toss every thing collectively and unfold out on a big parchment-lined sheet pan.
Step 4: Slice the tofu into ¾- inch thick strips. Toss them into the identical bowl that had the veggies and add the remaining marinade. Use a rubber spatula to softly combine the tofu. Sprinkle the cornstarch and salt excessive and blend once more. Unfold the tofu out on a small, parchment-lined sheet pan.
Step 5: Bake each sheet pans for 20 minutes (veggies on the center rack, tofu on th prime rack) then flip the tofu and stir the veggies. Bake 20-25 minutes extra.
Step six: Whereas the fajitas bake, prep the avocado. In a small bowl, mash two avocados with a fork and blend with ¼ teaspoon salt, ¼ teaspoon granulated garlic and a squeeze of lime juice.
Step seven: Take away the sheet pans from the oven and mix the veggies and tofu and squeeze with just a little lime juice. For added depth, you would toss with 1-2 teaspoons of soy sauce.
Heat the tortillas in a big skillet over medium-high warmth.
Step eight: Unfold the tortillas with mashed avocado, fill with fajita combine, and serve with sizzling sauce, cilantro, lime wedges, and vegan bitter cream.
Variations
- Protein: In case you’d like to change up the protein for these Vegan Fajitas, you would strive tempeh as a substitute of tofu. Or skip the tofu and easily serve with black beans or pinto beans which have been warmed in a skillet.
- Mushrooms: Be at liberty to sub different mushrooms like portobellos or shiitake mushrooms.
- Veggies: Whereas bell peppers and onions are traditional fajita greens, be at liberty to toss something on the sheet pan that you’ve available. Candy potato, butternut squash, zucchini, or summer time squash are all nice choices!
Storage
Retailer leftover fajitas in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 5 days. It’s also possible to seal in a bag and place within the freezer for 3 months. Nice for meal prep!
Serving Solutions
Serve Vegan Fajitas with heat corn tortillas or flour tortillas, lime wedges, sizzling sauce, vegan bitter cream, or chipotle mayo (vegan adaptable), recent cilantro, and pickled onions, you can too serve them alongside Cilantro Lime Rice or easy brown rice and create a burrito bowl and serve with a aspect of Baked Enchilada Beans or Simple Home made Refried Beans.
In case you want to serve with a sauce drizzled excessive, strive our chipotle mayo, Vegan Cilantro Crema, or Vegan Queso. Serve with salsa, like our Salsa Verde, Pico de Gallo, or Chipotle Pineapple Salsa.
FAQs
In case you don’t like peppers, merely depart them out and enhance the quantity of mushrooms and onions, or add different veggies like zucchini.
It might be that your mushrooms didn’t roast for lengthy sufficient. Bake the fajita veggies till the mushrooms are crispy on the sides.
The spices in taco seasoning usually are not the identical as these utilized in our fajita seasoning right here, however for simplicity, you may at all times use taco seasoning as a substitute.
We hope you’re keen on these Vegan Sheet Pan Fajitas! Please tell us what you assume. Take pleasure in this straightforward dinner recipe!
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Description
This vegan fajitas recipe is daring and flavorful, made with oyster mushrooms, tofu, bell pepper and onion, baked on a sheet pan—a fast and straightforward plant-based dinner, good for busy weeknights.
You’ll want 2 sheet pans, one small and one giant.
Fajita Marinade
Fajita Components
Non-obligatory Tofu
- Preheat the oven to 400F.
- Frivolously pat the tofu dry (if utilizing) and place on two layers of paper towels.
- In a small bowl, combine collectively the fajita marinade components.
- Pull aside the oyster mushrooms lengthwise and place them in an extra-large mixing bowl. Add the sliced bell pepper and onion and toss with 4-5 tablespoons of marinade (or simply sufficient to coat calmly) tossing effectively to coat. Unfold out on a big parchment-lined sheet pan.
- Lower the tofu into ¾-inch strips. Place in the identical mixing bowl (no have to rinse). Add the remaining marinade, and utilizing a rubber spatula, gently combine (steel tongs will break them). Sprinkle with the cornstarch and ½ teaspoon extra salt and blend once more. Place in a single layer on a smaller, parchment-lined sheet pan.
- Place the veggies on the center rack and the tofu on the higher rack. Bake within the oven for 20 minutes, stir (flip tofu), and bake 15-20 minutes extra. Mix veggies and tofu and squeeze with just a little lime juice.
- Style and regulate salt. Tip: For added depth, toss with 1-2 teaspoons of soy sauce or GF liquid aminos.
- Whereas the fajitas are baking, make the mashed avocado. See recipe notes beneath.
- Heat the tortillas, both on the oven rack, or toaster oven or toast them in a skillet or over an open fuel flame. Stack and retailer them in a kitchen towel to maintain them heat.
- To serve, unfold warmed tortillas with mashed avocado, fill them with fajita combine, and serve with sizzling sauce, cilantro, lime wedges, chipotle mayo or vegan bitter cream.
Notes
Mashed avocado unfold: mash two avocados with a fork and whisk with ¼ teaspoon salt, ¼ teaspoon granulated garlic and a squeeze of lime juice.
Not a fan of tofu? Serve with warmed black beans or add extra veggies to the combination.
Vitamin
- Serving Dimension: 2 Fajitas with Avocado unfold
- Energy: 454
- Sugar: 6.4 g
- Sodium: 606.3 mg
- Fats: 26.8 g
- Saturated Fats: 3.8 g
- Carbohydrates: 45 g
- Fiber: 13.6 g
- Protein: 15.2 g
- Ldl cholesterol: 0 mg