Get Your Groove On With Walnut Tacos

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 cups walnuts
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 tablespoons chili powder
• 1 tablespoon ground cumin
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground coriander
• 1 1/2 teaspoons paprika
• 1 teaspoon onion powder
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/2 teaspoon cayenne
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup raw macadamia nuts (or raw cashew nuts)
• 1/2-1 chipotle pepper packed in adobo sauce
• 2 tablespoons adobo sauce (from a jar of chipotle peppers)
• 1/4 cup water
• 1 head bibb lettuce, leaves separated (or corn tortilla-sprouted grain or gluten-free organic recommended)
• 1 avocado, peeled, pitted
• red onion, finely diced
• tomato, diced
• sunflower sprouts (or sprouts of your choice)
• red cabbage, shredded
• cilantro leaf

Recipe

• 1 make the taco seasoning:.
• 2 stir all ingredients together well in a small bowl. store in a tightly sealed jar.
• 3 make the taco filling:.
• 4 soak the walnuts in water for about an hour. drain thoroughly.
• 5 process soaked walnuts to the texture of cooked ground beef/turkey.
• 6 with the processor running, pour in the olive oil. scrape into a serving bowl and stir in 2 tablespoons of the taco seasoning*.
• 7 make the sauce:.
• 8 blend all sauce ingredients in a high-speed blender until smooth. scrape into a serving bowl. (start with half a chipotle pepper, taste, and add more to increase spicy heat to your preference).
• 9 to serve:.
• 10 spoon some of the walnut mix into a lettuce leaf.
• 11 spoon some of the sauce over the walnuts and top with toppings of your choice.
• 12 note: you will not need all the taco seasoning for one recipe. reserve extra seasoning for future use.