Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Spinach Mushroom Tortillas



While I sometimes enjoy making complicated dishes, I don't always have hours to spend in the kitchen. Today, with the glut of fast, processed food,  people think you have to spend all day cooking in order to eat healthy. Good vegetarian or vegan food doesn't have to take lots of time.

This was a yummy, filling and fast meal that I threw together to clean out the fridge. It is also my submission to  The Healthy Cooking Challenge  at Alicia's wonderful blog Vegan Epicurean. This month, her challenge is to make a family favorite recipe healthy and vegan. Years ago, these tortillas would have contained meat and cheese. Now they are much healthier, and they taste better too.
My recipe makes 2 large tortillas and is ready to eat in about 15 minutes. If you have a family favorite that you would like to healthy up and make vegan, head on over to Alicia's and join in the fun!

Spinach Mushroom Tortillas

1 red pepper,seeded and sliced into thin strips
1 red onion, sliced into thin strips
1 8 oz. carton of baby bella mushrooms or mushrooms of your choice, sliced
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 c. baby spinach, roughly chopped
2 whole grain tortillas
2 T. salsa
2 T. guacamole

Saute pepper and onion in a little water over med. heat for 3-4 min..  Add mushrooms and garlic, cover, reduce heat and sweat about 10 min. till tender. Add spinach and heat 1-2 minutes, just till wilted. Divide between 2 whole grain tortillas, top each with 1 T. of guacamole and 1 T. salsa.
Serves 2.

Note: I used my home canned salsa found  here , use whatever salsa you like. While I often make my own guacamole, this time I used Wholly Guacamole.

9 comments:

Claudia January 19, 2010 9:26 AM  

I love this - grand ingredients and easy. Overly fond of spinach and mushrooms so loving them together.

lululu January 19, 2010 10:02 AM  

quick, easy, tasty and colorful meal! wonderful!

Vegan Epicurean January 19, 2010 10:10 AM  

Janet,

What a great idea, I love the sound of this! And they look wonderful too. Thanks so much for submitting this recipe to the challenge and good luck.

talk to you soon,
Alicia

janet January 19, 2010 10:54 AM  

Claudia, we are crazy about spinach too!

Lululu, thanks for the comment, I love colorful food.

Alicia, it was fun coming up with this for the challenge, thanks for hosting it!

Fayinagirl (means Free One) January 19, 2010 12:10 PM  

Janet,

I love quick and easy. =) So glad to see you used mushrooms in this dish. Sometimes I forget that they are so versatile. I need to do more with them that just add them to my salads.

janet January 19, 2010 1:10 PM  

Julie Lynn, there's something about the combination of spinach and mushrooms that I just love, I use them together in soups quite often. But I forget to add them to salad, thanks for the reminder.

Stacy January 19, 2010 5:07 PM  

I also love spinach and mushrooms together--they compliment each other perfectly!

Aimee (I Tri To Be Me) January 20, 2010 3:21 PM  

Yum! I just made something similar last night...portabella fajitas w/ red onions, bell peppers, spinach, cumin, & oregano! They were so yummy, but I'll have to try your version next!

Venus January 20, 2010 4:38 PM  

Just seeing the photo has made me really hungry! Mmmmm.

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