Tacos Made Healthy; Diabetes Friendly Thursday

It is that fourth dimension of the calendar week again!! It is fourth dimension for Diabetes Friendly Thursday! We likewise stimulate got a novel fellow member to our proud DFT team: Parvathy!This calendar week the DFT squad is bringing to y'all something that nosotros promise all of y'all volition enjoy: Tex-Mex food!!

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When y'all recollect of Tex-Mex cuisine, what comes to your mind?? I am certain several things do. I am likewise certain that 1 of the things that crosses your remove heed is TACO. Taco is singular spell tacos is plural. Taco is pronounced ta:ko. So, what precisely is a taco?? Taco is basically a tortilla alongside some variety of filling. I am certain y'all are at nowadays imagining a deep fried difficult shell heaped alongside meat, salsa, sour cream, cheese in addition to a footling lettuce. Well, y'all are non wrong. But that is non the only variety of taco. Tacos tin live on difficult or soft. The difficult shell tacos are ones where inwards the tortilla has been deep fried in addition to so they retain their shape.Soft tacos are alongside tortillas that stimulate got non been deep fried in addition to obviously, so much healthier. The tortilla used tin live on flour, wheat or corn tortillas. Corn tortillas tin live on gluten free.

Now coming to the filling inwards a taco. That's the interesting part. Tacos are so versatile that y'all could fill upward it alongside pretty much anything y'all wishing in addition to nonetheless telephone telephone it a taco. You could arrive equally unhealthy in addition to calorie laden equally y'all wishing past times heaping it alongside reddish meat, sour cream, salsa in addition to tons of shredded cheese or y'all could arrive equally good for y'all equally possible past times filling it alongside something equally unproblematic in addition to nutritious equally chunky avocado guacamole!! Isn't that interesting??

So, 1 time once to a greater extent than taco filling essentially has to stimulate got a poly peptide base of operations alongside some variety of salsa/ sauce to spice it up, some veggies in addition to may live on topped alongside sour cream in addition to or shredded cheese. Based on the poly peptide filling that forms the main ingredient, the taco is named. So y'all tin stimulate got pork tacos, beef tacos, chicken tacos, fish tacos, shrimp tacos, black-bean tacos, avocado tacos etc.What I am bringing to y'all today are tacos that are extremely healthy and low inwards calories. I introduce to y'all egg tacos in addition to quinoa black-bean tacos. I stimulate got used corn tortilla equally they are depression inwards calories: or so eighty calories per tortilla. I stimulate got likewise used Greek yogurt instead of sour cream.These tacos could live on had for breakfast, tiffin or dinner.

Servings: 1 ( ii tacos per person)

For pico de gallo in addition to salsa verde recipes, click here.

For quinoa-black bean-corn filling recipe,click here.

For the egg filling:

Ingredients:

Egg: 1 large egg
Milk: ii tbsp
Salt: to taste
Black pepper: freshly ground, a pinch
Oil: 1 tsp

Method :

In a bowl, accept all the ingredients listed higher upward except crude oil . Beat until the egg is fluffy. Heat crude oil inwards a frying pan on medium heat. Add the beaten egg mixture to the pan. Let it sit down for couplet of mins until it begins to set. Now scramble it gently. When the eggs look to operate out the pan easily, it is done. Do non overcook/burn the eggs. Keep the egg filling aside inwards a bowl.

Ingredients needed for assembling the taco:

Corn tortilla: ii numbers
Egg filling for egg taco
Quinoa-black bean-corn filling for vegetarian taco: 1 cup
Greek yogurt : 1/4 cup
Pico de gallo: 1/4 cup
Salsa verde: 1/4 cup
Avocado pieces: 1/2 cup, from 1 pocket-sized avocado.

Method:

Warm the corn tortilla on the halt overstep inwards a skillet for 1-2 minutes. Alternatively, y'all tin warm the tortilla inwards the microwave past times keeping it inwards a microwave-safe plate in addition to roofing it alongside a damp newspaper towel. Warm it for thirty seconds.

Place the warm tortilla inwards the plate that y'all recollect to eat/serve the tortilla in. Add ii tbsp of the desired filling at the centre of the tortilla: quinoa dark edible bean mixture for vegetarian taco ; egg filling for the egg taco. Now overstep it alongside 1 tbsp of pico de gallo and/ or salsa verde, avocado pieces. Lastly add together a dollop of Greek yogurt on top.

Quinoa- dark bean-corn taco

Egg taco

Serve/ consume immediately.

Enjoy! I am bringing this to my friend Angie's Fiesta Fri so to a greater extent than people tin be benefited with all these wonderful recipes! The co-hosts this calendar week are Jhuls@The Not So Creative Cook and Laurie@ Ten Times Tea.

Cooking made easy:

In the higher upward recipe, y'all could flavour some shrimp alongside salt, pepper, garlic powder, pan tiddler it in addition to purpose it equally a filling. You tin likewise purpose leftover rotisserie chicken, shred it in addition to purpose that equally a filling. The possibilities are innumerable. Use your imagination. Tacos shape a smashing weeknight dinner. All y'all stimulate got to brand certain is that y'all stimulate got some tortillas at home. Assembling of the tacos tin live on made past times each private equally per their private taste.

Tip for good for y'all living:

Eating good for y'all does non stimulate got to hateful that y'all stimulate got express choices or options. You could consume pretty much anything y'all want. All 1 has to live on mindful of are the ingredients. Swap the unhealthy ingredients alongside the good for y'all ingredients. In the illustration of the higher upward tacos: I stimulate got used corn tortillas that are only eighty calories per tortilla, has less fatty inwards it in addition to is less processed in addition to gluten free. I stimulate got skipped shredded cheese alone in addition to swapped the sour cream alongside the healthier, non-fat Greek yogurt. Greek yogurt is a smashing root of poly peptide in addition to is likewise a probiotic. Read to a greater extent than close the benefits of greek yogurt here.The quinoa used inwards the vegetarian taco is a superfood. You tin read to a greater extent than close quinoa here.Black beans are some other smashing depression fatty root of poly peptide for vegetarians. It is likewise rich inwards fiber. You tin read to a greater extent than here.

Disclaimer:
I am non a nutritionist or dietitian. My cognition in addition to data is based on my enquiry and reading from unlike resources. Please consult your Dr. or dietitian before making any changes to your diet.

Indulge inwards delicious Tex Mex nutrient alongside DFT this fourth dimension alongside all these other recipes from our team!

1. Vidhya's vegetarian chilli.
http://www.vidhyashomecooking.com/2015/06/03/zero-oil-vegetarian-chili-chili-sin-carne-dft/