Baked corn tortilla chicken tacos with guacamole, cashew cheese, & refried beans.
The last time we sat down at a restaurant was February 29th. That means we’ve been making tons of new recipes and enjoying our meals at the table more. Now, don’t get me wrong, you better believe we’ll be running to the restaurants to support them as soon as it’s safe, but cooking from home each night hasn’t been too bad. One meal we’ve been enjoying lately have been these corn tortilla tacos. They just don’t get old! I made a huge batch yesterday and froze them to eat throughout the next few weeks! If you’re looking for an easy recipe to make, I promise this one won’t disappoint. 
These baked corn tortilla tacos are quick to make, and the perfect last-minute recipe if you have guests coming over or for a party appetizer. I want to try making mini ones like the ones my best friend from high school and I used to eat after school. We always dipped them in a homemade ranch, and they were so good! Don’t knock tacos and rand until you try it!
I’ve recently become obsessed with Fresh Cravings cheese dips. To be honest, I’ve spent a ton of money at health food stores trying to find a plant-based cheese that tastes good. I’ve never been blown out of the water until trying the Fresh Cravings Queso Cashew Cheese from my regular supermarket. I wasn’t expecting it to be THAT good. Even Kyle kept looking at the container to see it was cheese and not made from cashews. It tasted just like that jalapeno nacho cheese you get at baseball games. I also bought their garlic dip, and it’s been phenomenal on my salads as a dressing. I’m excited to get my hands on their Monterey jack and ranch plant-based dips! Oh, check their store locator because I think they sell a lot of their products at Walmart. The queso cheese was the perfect addition to these baked corn tortilla tacos.
All you need is ground chicken (or your choice of protein), refried beans, onions, peppers, corn tortillas, avocados, taco seasoning, and some spices to flavor up the guacamole. And toppings are the best part; sometimes I add chopped tomatoes, hot salsa, corn, dairy-free sour cream, and shredded lettuce!
The refried beans and the corn tortilla go together like peas and carrots 😊
Like I said earlier, this recipe works with any protein substitute, or even if you wanted to go extra on the beans. Seasoned tofu, fish, tempeh, turkey, or vegan meat crumbles would all work as replacements. You can get as creative as you want with this one! You can’t mess this recipe up!
I added a little olive oil spray to the top. Bake until they are slightly brown and crispy around the edges! A flour tortilla will work with this recipe too, just make sure to keep an eye on it in the oven.
You can wait for them to cool, pack them up, and store in the freezer if you plan on doing these for meal prep! Keep the toppings in containers to make serving quick and easy. I like to heat them back up in the air fryer because it’s quick and more efficient for cooking up two tacos.
This is my go-to guacamole recipe, and I make it almost daily! I put it on toast, in salads, or for my chip habit. Chips have gotten me through the past few months in quarantine. 😆
I topped these delicious tacos with the cashew cheese and guacamole! You’ll for sure do that happy food dance after you take the first bite.
I’m going to add the taco bell mild sauce to the top of these next time! 😋
And to serve them, I just put them in a baking dish!
baked chicken & bean tacos with guacamole and cashew cheese!
Ingredients
Tacos
- 12 Small Corn Tortillas
- 2 Tbsps Taco Seasoning
- 1 Lb Ground Chicken (or your choice of protein - tofu, turkey)
- 1 Cup Refried Beans
Guacamole
- 1/2 Cup Avocados
- 1/4 Cup Chopped Peppers
- 2 Tbsps Chopped Red Onion
- 1 Tsp Garlic Powder
- 1 Tsp Onion Powder
- 2 Tsps Everything But The Bagel Seasoning
- 1/4 Tsp Black Pepper
Extra Toppers
- shredded iceberg lettuce
- cashew queso cheese Fresh Cravings Brand
- chopped tomatoes
- sour cream
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees
- Cook up ground chicken on a skillet with the taco seasoning.
- Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray and lay out the corn tortillas. Top the tortillas evenly with the refried beans and ground chicken.
- Fold and bake for 12-15 minutes.
- While the tacos are baking, make the guacamole. Mix the avocados, peppers, onions, garlic, onion, pepper, and everything but the bagel seasoning together. *I didn't have any lime on hand, but I love adding lime to the guacamole as well.
- When the tacos are lightly brown and crispy, add your choice of toppings. I added the cheese and guacamole on top. *Sometimes I make these and keep the toppings in containers in the fridge, freeze the tacos and heat one up for lunch or dinner throughout the week. They are great for meal prep. ENJOY!
I’m so excited to have these for lunch again today! I could honestly eat these daily and never get sick of them. 
I hope you enjoy this easy recipe! I have a few more in the blog lineup to share next week! Xo, I hope you all are staying safe! 💜 Let me know if you make these! I love getting your hand and sharing your photos!
Questions for you!
- What’s your go-to taco topping?
- Are you tired of cooking at home yet?
- What dinner recipe do you want me to make next?
This looks really good! So healthy too! Thanks for sharing, Taralynn! ❤️✨
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Thanks, Charmaine!!
We cannot wait to try these out. Do you think I could replace the refried beans with black beans?
Thanks, Katie!
yes, black beans will work 😊
Hi, Taralynn!
I love flour tortillas but I will give this recipe a shot. I have never enjoyed cooking and so I am very ready to get back to going to restaurants. We’ve been eating ham sandwiches for weeks now.
Can you do a recipe for gluten free dumplings?
Liddie
Ohhhh gluten-free dumplings would be amazing!!! I have been buying the boxed ones 😂 but I’ll look into creating a recipe for sure!
How do you keep the tortillas from breaking? Mine all spit in half prior to baking!
Where do you find the cashew cheese?
I bought it at Publix. I know most Walmarts carry it! Check the store locator on their website 😊
Yum! This is a great recipe. My favorite taco topping is jalapeños and sour cream! Thanks again for another great recipe.
Ohhh can’t go wrong with jalapenos!
Where is that pan from? the blue one
TJMaxx 😊
Hi Taralynn! This recipe looks fantastic and I will try it next week.
On tacos I also like fire roasted or sauteed yellow and red bell peppers and queso.
Next recipe…someyhing really easy..maybe pasta something?
Did you like Arthur Gunn’s performance in Hawai? I hope he wins AI this year. He has such an amazing voice I want to buy concert tix already 🤣 I am sad they may not be able to hold the live sessions now..I wonder if people could sing from their homes 😊
Oh, I’ve never thought about adding fire-roasted peppers to tacos but LOVE that idea.
You can never go wrong with pasta!
YES I LOVE HIM, Makayla, and Juliana! I wonder what they’ll do!!! Probably postpone but IM SO SAD i love this show lol
These look really good but I’ll admit it, I LOVE DAIRY and I’m afraid to try the “cashew cheese” and other nut cheeses.
We are used to making our own meals at home and don’t go out or take out much but we are struggling with a lack of variety in the ingredients. We are used to going out multiple times a week for ingredients most weeks and now we are trying to go multiple weeks BETWEEN shopping trips and use what we have in the freezer and pantry. Blah. Boring. Cannot wait for restrictions to lift, and normalcy and variety to resume.
When we have tacos we almost always roast tomatoes and we use salsa fresca but we often make “cheat” fish tacos with baked fish sticks and avocado mash in flour tortillas. It’s a favorite summer dish. These look really really good and the fact that they can be frozen and reheated is extra enticing.
I would like to see you recreate some of your awesome takeout at home- like the chopt falafel power salad bowl and maybe some salads from zoe’s. I am really looking forward to doing more veggie bowls and smoothies as main dishes this summer once we can go shopping more and having a little meat garnish in the power bowl for example. I also would like to see you help some of us carb addicts get more comfortable cooking and meal prepping with replacements like spaghetti squash, a variety of easy prep veggie fries, and the like because normally we lean towards “simple” meals like burgers and frozen french fries or a pasta with a homemade sauce and I feel like if we could make flavorful easy veggie alternatives, they could just be healthier tweaks to things we’re used to prepping. I always think your power bowls (even when they’re takeout!) look delicious so I could also probably be inspired to do those with grilled meats this summer…
Just some ideas from your meals I normally drool over 🙂
Jenny
If you can eat regular cheese without issues, there’s no reason why you have to go for the cashew cheese 😊 BUT I WILL SAY, Kyle, who is weird about vegan cheese, could not take the difference. He thought it was lEGIT cheese and it was amazing. It’s usually the “soy” cheese that freaks me out.
I agree, soo ready for this to all lift and things to go back to normal!
Those are all great ideas for recipes! OHHH I forgot all about ZOE’S and need to have one of their salads soon!
I was able to add the cashew cheese and a couple other ingredients to my Walmart pickup at the last minute! The tacos were awesome! I used grilled chicken and diced it up small. Thanks for the new taco recipe!
I personally love sliced black olives on tacos, but I am probably the only one! Haha. I am not too tired of cooking at home because it’s normal for me. I miss going out for coffee, though! And as far as which dinner recipe I’d like to see you do next…anything! You always have great concoctions!
That sounds amazing!!! What did you think of the cheese?!?!
Yeah, any olives and I’m out! 😂
xo xo
The cheese was awesome, very different from anything we’ve had! I liked the flavor.
So funny about olives…so many people feel that way! My hubby hates them. That’s fine…more for me!
Oh and I’m super sad about Idol being on hold, we were really getting into this season! What do you think about the new Bachelor show coming out Listen to Your Heart? It looks a little extra….cheesy. But I will give it a shot anyway!
Glad you liked it! 😊
I’m SO SAD about Idol. I cannot watch that new Bachelor show 😂 I get really bad cringy feelings watching it, which is crazy because I usually love stuff like that! 😆
Have you reheated these from frozen to lunch plate in your air fryer? We’re taking the plunge to get an airfryer and I reallllllllllly like the idea of a quick and easy lunch/dinner reheat after we cook these once.
Thanks,
Jenny
Yes!!! That’s how I warm them back up!
can you give an idea of what heat/how long to cook them all the way through!?
I reheat for 6 minutes at 380! 😃