10-Minute Raw Vegan Taco “Meat”

Excellent! So yummy! So often when I try a recipe, I end up wasting expensive nuts because I don’t like it. This time, I only made half to prevent that, and now I’m regretting it. Thank you for sharing!

I made this tonight for dinner and it was so good and so flavorful! Thanks so much for the great recipe.

I really like how it turned out. This is my first vegan taco meet and its very good. Definitely is close to the meat version. Thank you! I will be using this for needed recipes or meals in the future.

Made this recipe for lunch today. It was a hit! Very tasty and easy to make! Thanks for another outstanding vegan recipe! 😊

Fantastic recipe!
I simplified it and it still turned out great!

I’m pregnant, so it’s currently hard for me to eat a lot of different foods.

I simply used:
Walnuts, chili powder, cumin, paprika, smoked paprika, salt and pepper! And I tiny bit of water. Turned out fabulous!

This recipe was so easy and tastes amazing!!! Thank you for sharing.

This was so delicious and even my picky eater husband loved it. OMG! Will definitely make again!

DELICIOUS! After making this for the raw collard wrap burritos, I mixed the leftovers with black beans, mashed sweet potatoes, cilantro and eggs, then formed them into patties and baked them to make veggie burgers, which also taste scrumptious.

This is soooo good!! I didn’t have any
habaneros so I used bell pepper and cayenne pepper. I swapped out the sugar for date sugar and added a little extra nutritional yeast. I can’t believe how awesome this recipe is for a non-cook like me. Thank you!!!

The walnut taco meat was everything – so flavorful and delicious. The sundried tomato sauce was the best!!!

I followed the recipe but also added some tanjin seasoning and taco seasoning.

I served everything in a soft folded shell with avocado, fresh cliantro, a few dried tomatoes lime juice and red salsa.

So good!!!!

Amazing!! This was so delicious and easy to make. If you haven’t tried it, you should.

My husband likes meaty smokey flavors and I do not. I have never liked meat so I tend to stay away from any vegetarian/vegan “meat” recipes, but this one is definitely the exception. To work my way around this, I used regular paprika and half and half smokey sun-dried tomatoes mixed with regular sun-dried tomatoes (both bagged). Perfection!

Thank you, Minimalist Baker. My 3 year old helped make it. If you have kids, this is a good one to share with them.

This is my first official plant-based only eating day. I found mustard greens at the farmers market and wanted to make a raw vegan wrap. I found your recipe. AHMAZING!!!! I cannot wait to try it tonight. Thank you Minimalist baker for proving that plant based eating can be anything but boring. What a great idea!

Hi, I am a HUGE fan of your recipes and on a plant based food journey now thrilled to find these amazing options! And just one of these is this taco “meat” which my husband and I tried last week….and devoured as it is so delicious. Our refried beans recipe has taken a back seat from now. Thank you so much Dana for your inspiration, creativity and making plant based eating as exciting and satisfying as and other food!

This “taco meat” is delicious and I love how quickly it comes together!
My meat loving partner said it was “delicious” and a “great dupe”!
This will definitely be in our weekly meal rotation.
Thank you for another great recipe.

I’ve made this twice this week, I can’t get enough! Enjoyed over greens topped with a mango guac and wrapped in a lettuce leaf with cilantro, purple cabbage and a squeeze of lime. I used maple syrup to balance the heat. Will definitely make again and again!! Thank you for this raw dish!

Crazy good! I like to wrap this up in Romaine lettuce with avocado, red onion and some cashew sour cream!!
It’s a little expensive, but worth it for a great taco!

I’ve been coming back to this recipe since 2017, 18?! So simple, yet delicious and nutritious and I usually have most of the ingredients already in my fridge and pantry! I woke up craving this recipe so off to Trader Joe’s I go. :)

This was SO easy and fast to make – and delicious! Looking forward to adding this to my dinner rotation

I am becoming addicted to this, wrapped with sweet potato inside a collard leaf, like a scrumptious little green burrito. I don’t know why the combination of flavours is so good but it really is.

Love this recipe! I’ve made it a couple of times and tonight decided to try it as an enchilada filling. So good!!

Wow! Like so many others here, I really enjoyed this. I made the taco meat according to the recipe but used it with some cooked ingredients (rice & beans) as burrito filling. This may be my regular add-in on family taco/burrito nights!

Great recipe! I scaled it up to 5C and used an entire can of chipotle peppers in adobo since I didn’t have habanero’s or sundried tomatoes on hand.
Didn’t need to add any water and I used xxx hot chili powder. Amazingly perfectly spicy (for me).

Thanks for easy recipe!

I’ll add liquid smoke next time around.

Thanks, this was a tasty taco filling! I added dried oregano as well.

i am making this (again) tomorrow. it is amazing and left our previous walnut meat recipe in the dust! we used chipotles in adobo because … well … we had a can. we will likely eat tacos, but i saw a program recently about a greek meat dish called pastitsio and want to try this as a vegan-ized version. thank you, it is delicious!

Oh.My.Gosh. THIS RECIPE!! Adios tofu taco meat! This is truly the easiest and yummiest taco meat recipe I found and hello healthy! Thank you thank you for this recipe!

I made the walnut meat and OH! MY! GOODNESS! Best veggie meat I HAVE EVER HAD! Even my partner was blown away! I do not like radishes and I was not able to find any ripe avocados or habanero peppers in the store so we decided to use red cabbage, fresh scallions, cilantro, pico de Gallo (Penny’s Salsa)- I also used some in the walnut meat to add some spice instead of the habanero peppers, and iceberg lettuce instead. Life changing!

Thank you! I didn’t have all of the ingredients, so I used a regular tomato and red bell pepper. Tastes pretty good! I will definitely try again.

This is amazing. It is easy to make, fast, and tastes great. This will be one of my go to recipies. It did make six generous servings.
Thank you for your time creating this recipe.

I’ve cut meat out of my diet, and this recipe is hearty, satisfying, and delicious. Love using this meet on rice bowls, tacos, and in collard green wraps. Perfect!

I didn’t have enough walnuts so I added some almonds, cashews and Hemp hearts. It turned out fantastic!!!! Topped our tocos with avocado, pickled red onion and fresh jalepano slices, even our toddler ate some of this taco “meat”! Will definitely make again!

[Repost with 5 stars] I never knew walnut meat was so easy to make. The flavor was perfect too—flavorful but not too spicy. Walnuts are mega anti-inflammatory, too, which is another reason to make this. Thanks, Dana!

I never knew walnut meat was so easy to make. The flavor was perfect too—flavorful but not too spicy. Walnuts are mega anti-inflammatory, too, which is another reason to make this. Thanks, Dana!

This truly was delicious and easy!! If your blender is unpredictable, just hand chop the walnuts to make sure they don’t pulverize.

This is so good! I love how easy it is to make and how quick it is.
I ate this with a tortilla yesterday and today I added it to my pasta. It tastes better warmed up to me! SO GOOD!

Amazing! Even my meat-eater boyfriend thought it was excellent!! I served it on a sprouted wheat tortilla, and topped it with a cabbage, carrot, jalapeno mixture and added micro greens, hemp hearts and chia. OMG Yum!

This recipe was delicious! My picky 11 yo even loved it, which is impressive as he doesn’t like anything new. That’s going to be our go to recipe for taco night from now on. Thanks for sharing all your delicious recipes!! Your website is becoming a favorite.

Sooooooo good!!! Thank you! I did mine with fire roasted pepers and no hot spices but instead upped the garlick on top of the rest of listed spices. To die for!

Hello Dana! We are entering our third week of self isolating in Seattle suburbs. Fortunately husband and I have jobs we can work from home. We take preparedness seriously and luckily always have lot of TP and dried rice, beans and a deep pantry of spices, etc to be ready for a earthquake. I come for a family of firefighters and first responders, so Be Prepared! has been drilled in me all my life. Never thought I would be using supplies for a pandemic though!
Anyway, I made your the walnut tacos, and so DELISH. Tip: Instead of water, I used the rice vinegar from the pickled red onions I always have on hand..and it really elevated it.

Sadly we only have one package of sprouted corn tortillas and a few avocados left, but 2 pounds of walnuts in the freezer, so i will figure out what else this pairs with well. Happy cocooning everyone . The silver lining is that once past this, maybe folks will stock up on things and not just live “just in time”. You never know when a deep pantry will serve you!

Here is love and hope everyone gets through this and finds their inner grit and resolve. I feel like folks born in the 70s going forward have had a pretty easy ride. OF course, we had AIDS, 9-11, the great recession, Gulf War, but we did not experience world wars, spanish flu, polio, the great depression. Life is isn’t fair, but WE CAN DO THIS!