Vegetarian Taco Meat

Vegetarian Taco Meat

ingredients:

• 4-5 cups sliced white button mushrooms
• 1 cup roasted cashews (I like them lightly salted)
• 1/8 teaspoon salt (omit if cashews are salted)
• 1 Tablespoon olive oil
• 2-3 Tablespoons homemade taco seasoning
• 1/4 cup water
• Optional: 1/4 cup taco sauce (try out our homemade taco sauce)
• Juice from half of a lime

directions:

1. In a food processor, pulse mushrooms, cashews and salt until it creates a crumbly mixture, Pulse apprx 10-12 times. You want to have little bites of cashews and mushroom in the mixture still, do not over process it.
2. In a large skillet over medium heat, add olive oil and vegetarian taco meat mixture. Cook 4-5 minutes to heat mixture through, turn heat down to low, cook for another 5-8 minutes. Cashews should have very little 'crunch' to them when tasting the mixture.
3. Stir in taco seasoning and water. On low for another 5 minutes.
4. Stir in taco sauce and lime juice before serving into corn tortillas or onto your favorite taco salad!