This Tex-Mex Frito pie crockpot casserole recipe is one your family will surely love. Try serving this with a fresh crisp salad, and you have a wonderful weeknight meal for your family. Consider this Tex Mex casserole on a busy weeknight.
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Quick Recipe Facts
⏰ Ready In: 4 hours 30 minutes. Pre-preparation time: 30 minutes |
Cooking time: 4 hours.
👩🍳 Skill level: Easy
🌮 Taste: Hearty, savory, and creamy with a combination of refried and pinto beans, fire roasted corn, zucchini, salsa, tomatoes and green chilies, cilantro, cumin, and chili powder served with crispy taco shells.
🌿 Type: Vegetarian, plant-based, high-fiber, and meal-prep friendly. Each serving contains about 14 grams of protein and 5 grams of fiber.
🌞 Perfect For: Weeknight family dinners, cost-effective meal prep, comforting dishes, Taco Tuesdays, and no-fuss slow cooker cooking.
🫙 Make-Ahead: Prepare the zucchini, onion, and cilantro and mix the ingredients in advance. Just before you start cooking, place all the ingredients in the slow cooker and cook on low heat for 4 hours. Add avocado, fresh tomatoes, pickled jalapeños or your choice of plain yogurt at the end.
🌀 Harmony Moment: It's not often that a simple dish like a Mexican casserole can make a nutritious and fiber-rich meal out of basic beans, vegetables such as zucchini, corn, tomatoes, and fresh herbs. Not only does each serving contain 14 grams of protein and 5 grams of fiber, but this plant-based meal is easy to prepare as well.
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Crockpots are a wonderful kitchen gadget, because it saves you so much time on busy days. Crockpot casserole recipes are some of the easiest recipes to make.
Creating a healthy meal at home is all about prep time, and you can focus on other tasks that need to be done instead of being stuck in the kitchen cooking.
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- Vegan Casserole - Delicious vegan casserole all made with plant based goodness.
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This is one vegan recipe that the entire family will enjoy.
🥘 Delicious Frito Pie Tex Mex Casserole
This Tex-Mex crockpot casserole is vegetarian, but tastes so darn delicious. You can also add in shredded chicken if you want to add more protein, but the beans are a wonderful vegetarian protein source with many vitamins and minerals.
Mexican food for me is something I could eat all year long and never get tired of. This meal will keep you satisfied for hours.
If you love this delicious casserole, you might also like to try my beef and sweet potato chili recipe, which is another family-friendly easy meal to make.
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Tex Mex Casserole Recipe In a Crockpot
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 16 ounce can refried beans
- 1 15 ounce can pinto beans (Drained and rinsed)
- 4 zucchini (Sliced into half-moons)
- 1 10 ounce can tomatoes and green chilies Rotel is my preference.
- 2 cups corn, fire-roasted (Canned or frozen)
- 12 taco shells, grain-free (Broken into pieces)
- 1 16 ounce jar salsa
- 2 cups cheese, Mexican style (Shredded)
- ½ cup onion, white (Finely chopped)
- ⅓ cup cilantro, fresh (Rough chopped)
- 2 teaspoons cumin, ground
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
Optional Garnishes:
- avocado
- tomatoes
- jalapenos, pickled
- yogurt of choice (I prefer plain almond milk yogurt)
Instructions
- Combine the beans, zucchini, corn, onions, cumin, chili powder, and cilantro in a medium sized bowl.
- Separately in another bowl, combine the can of diced tomatoes with green chilies with salsa.
- In your slow cooker, evenly spread ½ cup of the tomato and salsa mixture onto the bottom. Top with ⅓ of the broken taco shells.
- Then spread half of the bean mixture over the taco shells, sprinkle with 1 ½ cup of cheese. Top that with 1 cup of the salsa mixture. Repeat the layers until all the mixtures are in the slow cooker.
- Put the lid on the slow cooker and cook on a low setting for 4 hours. Serve with any of the optional garnishes.
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