Vegetarian Fajitas with Creamy Chipotle Sauce

These Vegetarian Fajitas with Creamy Chipotle Sauce are a meatless but protein-packed meal with a delicious restaurant-style sauce!

I’ve already told you guys about my nostalgic love for fajitas in my fajitas veggies post.

While those chipotle fajita veggies are great wrapped into a tortilla with steak, chicken or my (or even included on a fajita bar), I often eat them for lunch, paired with beans in these Vegetarian Fajitas.

It may sound a little boring based on the recipe title, but I can promise you, these fajitas for vegetarians are anything but boring.

I have a trick to make canned beans a little more interesting, and a dreamy, creamy sauce that will make you think you’re at a restaurant.

Grab a lemon margarita and let’s get into it, shall we?

How to make vegetarian fajitas at home:

While you could make vegetarian fajitas with simply, well, vegetables, I like to add beans so that there’s some protein included in my meal, which will keep me full longer.

For this recipe, you’ll start by stirring together some simple ingredients to make the Creamy Chipotle Sauce.

Then you’ll be mashing and heating some beans, heating up those chipotle Fajita Veggies you already have made, warming some tortillas, and that’s it! You’re ready to eat!

This is a vegetarian fajitas recipe with beans!

It’s pretty standard to find a vegetarian fajita recipe that uses beans (like my Greek yogurt pasta that has chickpeas in it). But what about two different textures of beans?

I find that playing with different textures in the kitchen is almost as important as pairing flavors. Nobody likes a dish that is all mushy or all crunchy – our palates don’t want that.

So, for these fajitas for vegetarians, I have mashed together half of the pinto beans (also great in my taco soup in slow cooker) with half of the black beans, until they kind of have a refried bean texture.

This mashed bean spread also helps everything stay together while eating the fajita (it kind of acts like a bean glue, I guess?).

I’ve also left half of the beans as well, whole beans, for a different texture. Serving two textures of beans adds a minimal amount of work, but really does make this vegetarian dish a bit more interesting to eat!

What goes in vegetarian fajitas?

• black beans
• pinto beans
• flour tortillas
• fajita veggies
• limes
• cilantro
• mayonnaise
• sour cream
• chipotles in adobo sauce
• honey

How do you make fajita sauce from scratch?

Often, you’ll see fajitas for vegetarians served simply with sour cream (which don’t get me wrong, I love!). But I wanted to jazz up these vegetarian fajitas with a sauce that is just a bit more interesting, but not much work at all.

The key ingredient here is a can of chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, which is exactly as it sounds – chipotle peppers (which are ripe jalapeño peppers that have been smoked) that come in a can full of adobo sauce (a sauce made with chili powder, vinegar, sugar, garlic and herbs).

I often find that just the adobo sauce itself is all the flavor and heat I need in some dishes. Start by making the Creamy Chipotle Sauce with mayonnaise, sour cream, adobo sauce, lime juice and honey.

Taste it, and if you decide that you’d like more heat in your sauce, finely chop up a chipotle pepper and add a little of it to the sauce.

I also love this sauce on mushroom tacos, lamb tacos and served with my shrimp fajita recipe! It’s also a great dipping sauce for black bean meatballs when I’m serving them Southwestern style.