Vegetable Fajitas With Beans

These Vegetarian Fajitas with Creamy Chipotle Sauce are a meatless but protein-packed meal with a delicious restaurant-style sauce!

I’ve already told you guys about my nostalgic love for fajitas in my fajitas veggies post.

While those chipotle fajita veggies are great wrapped into a tortilla with steak, chicken or my (or even included on a fajita bar), I often eat them for lunch, paired with beans in these Vegetarian Fajitas.

It may sound a little boring based on the recipe title, but I can promise you, these fajitas for vegetarians are anything but boring.

I have a trick to make canned beans a little more interesting, and a dreamy, creamy sauce that will make you think you’re at a restaurant.

Grab a lemon tequila cocktail and let’s get into it, shall we?

Ingredients For Vegetable Fajitas

• black beans – a great source of protein.
• pinto beans – another protein source, offering a slightly different texture and flavor to complement the black beans.
• fajita veggies – use the link in the recipe card to make my easy fajita veggies recipe.
• tortillas – I prefer flour tortillas as a vehicle for fajitas, but you can use corn tortillas, too.
• mayonnaise – one part of the creamy, rich base of the sauce.
• sour cream – the other, more tangy part of the sauce base.
• adobo sauce – this sauce is what canned adobo chiles are packed in. It provides a smoky, spicy flavor for the creamy chipotle sauce. If you like spice, you can also use some of the chiles from the can.
• lime juice – adds brightness and acidity to the sauce.
• honey – for a touch of sweetness to balance the heat and acidity of the sauce.
• lime wedges and cilantro – for serving.

How to Make Vegetarian Fajitas

1. SAUCE. Stir together the mayonnaise, sour cream, adobo sauce, lime juice, and honey. If you’d like a spicier sauce, add some chopped chipotle peppers.
2. BEANS. Use a potato masher or fork to mash half of the black beans and half of the pinto beans until relatively smooth. Place the remaining whole beans in a separate bowl. Microwave each bowl of beans until warmed through.
3. TORTILLAS. Warm the tortillas in a microwave or on the flame of a gas stove.
4. ASSEMBLE. Fill the tortillas with the mashed beans, whole beans, and the fajita veggies. Drizzle with the sauce and serve with the lime wedges and cilantro.

Serving Veggie Fajitas

Often, you’ll see fajitas for vegetarians served simply with sour cream (which don’t get me wrong, I love!). But I wanted to jazz up these vegetarian fajitas with a sauce that is just a bit more interesting, but not much work at all.

The key ingredient here is a can of chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, which is exactly as it sounds – chipotle peppers (which are ripe jalapeño peppers that have been smoked) that come in a can full of adobo sauce (a sauce made with chili powder, vinegar, sugar, garlic and herbs).

I often find that just the adobo sauce itself is all the flavor and heat I need in some dishes. Start by making the Creamy Chipotle Sauce with mayonnaise, sour cream, adobo sauce, lime juice and honey.

Taste it, and if you decide that you’d like more heat in your sauce, finely chop up a chipotle pepper and add a little of it to the sauce.

I also love this sauce on mushroom tacos, lamb tacos and served with my shrimp fajita recipe! It’s also a great dipping sauce for black bean meatballs when I’m serving them Southwestern style.

More Topping Suggestions For Vegetable Fajitas

If you’d like to add additional toppings to these veggie fajitas, go for it! Some easy ones include:

• shredded cheese
• diced tomatoes
• sliced avocado or guacamole
• salsa or pico de gallo

What to Serve with Veggie Fajitas

Pair this veggie enchiladas recipe with sides of Mexican corn salad and Mexican rice for a complete meal.