A delicious and filling Mexican inspired dinner!
Just when you thought I couldn’t possibly come up with another recipe containing sweet potato, quinoa and black beans, I give you this enchilada bake 🙂 It was so good that I just had to share it with you though!
This isn’t quite a 30 minute meal, but the few minutes of extra time it takes to make is well worth it.
This may come as a surprise to you, but my husband doesn’t exactly love sweet potatoes. I’m not sure how that’s even possible, but I’ve tried to curb my habit of putting sweet potatoes into everything. But, when it comes to Mexican inspired dishes I just can’t help myself!
This delicious dinner is loaded with tons of sweet potato, veggies and quinoa. It’s filling and flavorful and can even be made a few days in advance and re-heated for a quick and easy weeknight dinner. I’m trying to eat less dairy so I made mine vegan with some vegan cheese, but you can use whatever kind you like. I hope you enjoy 🙂
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Sweet Potato Quinoa & Veggie Enchilada Bake
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: 4-6 1x
Description
A delicious and filling Mexican inspired dinner!
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup dried quinoa
- 4 cup cubed sweet potato, about 2 large ones
- 1 red pepper, diced
- 1 green pepper, diced
- 1 zucchini, diced
- 1/2 red onion, diced
- 1 (15 oz) can black beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 cup corn kernels
- 1 cup grated cheese, divided (I used vegan cheese)
- 2 1/2 cups enchilada sauce
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 3 teaspoons olive oil, divided
- 1 1/2 teaspoon salt, divided
- Black pepper
- Optional garnishes: cilantro, red onion, tomato, avocado, jalapeno
Instructions
- Rinse quinoa and place it in a small pot with 1 cup of water. Bring to a simmer and cook until water is absorbed and quinoa is cooked through, about 15 minutes. Set aside.
- Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees F. On a large baking sheet, toss together the cubed sweet potato with 2 teaspoons olive oil, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Bake sweet potato for 20 minutes.
- While sweet potato is baking, add all the diced bell peppers, zucchini and onion to a bowl and toss with 1 teaspoon olive oil and a pinch of salt and pepper.
- Add the vegetables to the sweet potatoes, stir and make sure they’re in an even layer. Place back into the oven 10 minutes.
- Increase the oven temperature to 400 degrees F. Place the sweet potatoes and veggies into a large baking dish and stir in the cooked quinoa, black beans, corn, 3/4 cup of the cheese, enchilada sauce, spices, 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Top with the remaining 1/4 of the cheese and place back in the oven until heated through and cheese is melted, 10-15 minutes.
- Top with your favorite garnishes and enjoy!
Notes
This recipe can be made up to 2 days in advance and refrigerated until you bake it.
*Nutritional information is for 6 servings
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 45 mins
- Category: Dinner, Vegan, Vegetarian, Dairy Free, Gluten Free
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1/6 of the recipe
- Calories: 601
- Sugar: 5
- Sodium: 1533 mg
- Fat: 10 g
- Saturated Fat: 2 g
- Carbohydrates: 112 g
- Fiber: 19 g
- Protein: 23 g
Really yummy!
Added in some tofu and subbed the bell peppers for canned diced tomatoes w/jalapenos.
Nice filling dinner
So glad you enjoyed it!!
Hi,
I just made this recipe & it’s absolutely delicious.
Thank you so much for this awesome recipe!
So glad you enjoyed it!
Just putting this together now…. for our dinner tonight! Love to have dinner made early in the day & reheating for our dinner tonight with a green salad & small amount of meat with lots of yummy spiced veggies! Nice!
Me too!!
Hi!
I am happy i found you. I made this on the instant pot, saved some time and had the best casserole. Your recipe is very flexible i had roasted tomatoes salsa instead of enchilada sauce, but it did jot disappointed. I will keep this ok rotation at our home. Great recipe!
Awesome! So glad you enjoyed it!
Hi. What steps for instant pot did you do to make this. Everything in at once? Thanks
Hi, I have not tested this recipe in an instant pot but I would probably do everything at once if I did