Sweet Potato and Kidney Bean Vegan Breakfast Bowls
Easy, healthy vegan breakfast burritos make Sunday brunch look a little different around my house. This Mexican-inspired vegan breakfast burrito features sweet potatoes and kidney beans simmered in tomatoes, cumin and chili powder tucked in a tortilla wrap with fresh spinach, avocado, chopped tomatoes and toasted pumpkin seeds. What more could you want for a healthy, easy vegan breakfast recipe?
1sweet potatoscrubbed and cubed into bite-sized pieces (I did not peel mine)
128 oz cankidney beansrinsed and drained
2cupsfresh water
fresh cilantrowashed and torn as garnishment
For Building Your Breakfast Burrito
4-6tortillas
8-10grape tomatoesdiced
1avocadosliced
2-3handfulsbaby spinach
1/4cuptoasted pumpkin seedssee blog post for recipe
salsa
hot sauce
Instructions
Preheat a large, deep-sided skillet. When hot, add the olive oil. When shimmering, add the onions and reduce the heat to medium-low. Allow the onions to cook until the are soft and lightly browned. About 8-10 minutes.
Add the garlic and cook until fragrant. About 1-2 minutes.
Add the cumin, chili powder and tomato paste. Increase heat to medium and sauté until fragrant and the tomato paste has turned a dark red.
Add the diced sweet potatoes and kidney beans. Stir to coat.
Add the water and allow to simmer, covered, until the potatoes are soft and able to be pierced with a fork. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Continue to simmer, uncovered, until any additional water has cooked off.
Serve immediately as a burrito with any of the optional ingredients and/or use as the base for vegan nachos, a vegan burrito bowl or vegan quesadillas.