Toasty Beef & Black Bean Flautas
with Pickled Onion, Tomato & Crema
- Milk
- Wheat
- Soy
We enjoy a traditional taco, but we’re always in the mood to mix things up! Enter: flautas—rolled-up tacos with a crispy outer shell. You’ll achieve that signature flauta crunch by filling flour tortillas with a mix of Tex-Mex-seasoned ground turkey, sautéed onion, and black beans, and baking to golden perfection. Top your flautas with tangy quick-pickled red onion, juicy chopped tomato, and drizzle of tangy crema to bring it all together.
Ingredients
1 unit
Red Onion
5 teaspoon
White Wine Vinegar
3 tablespoon
Crema
(Contains: Milk)
1 unit
Black Beans
1 unit
Tomato
6 unit
Flour Tortillas
(Contains: Wheat, Soy)
10 ounce
Ground Beef
1 unit
Tex-Mex Paste
Not included in your delivery
¼ teaspoon (tsp)
Sugar
2 teaspoon (tsp)
Cooking Oil
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
• Adjust rack to middle position and preheat oven to 425 degrees. Line a baking sheet with foil and coat with nonstick cooking spray. Wash and dry produce. • Halve, peel, and very thinly slice onion; mince a few slices until you have 2 TBSP (4 TBSP for 4 servings). Drain and rinse beans. Dice tomato into ¼-inch pieces.
• Heat a drizzle of oil in a large pan over medium-high heat. Add minced onion; cook, stirring constantly, until translucent, 1-2 minutes. • Stir in turkey* and drained beans; cook, breaking up meat into pieces, until meat is browned and onion is softened, 4-6 minutes. • Stir in Tex-Mex paste and ½ cup water (1 cup for 4 servings); simmer until mixture has thickened and turkey is cooked through, 1-2 minutes more. • Taste and season with salt and pepper if desired.
Swap in beef for turkey.
• While turkey cooks, in a small microwave-safe bowl, combine sliced onion, vinegar, ¼ tsp sugar (½ tsp for 4 servings), and a pinch of salt. Cover with plastic wrap and microwave for 1 minute. • Set aside to pickle, stirring occasionally, until ready to use in Step 5.
• When turkey filling is done, coat tortillas with a drizzle of oil (brush or rub to completely coat on both sides). • Place tortillas on a clean work surface. Add about 2 TBSP turkey filling to bottom half of each tortilla. (Save the rest of the filling for serving.) • Roll up tortillas, starting with filled sides, to create flautas. Place, seam sides down, on prepared sheet. TIP: Arranging your flautas snug on the sheet can help keep them from unrolling. • Bake on middle rack until golden brown and crispy, 8-12 minutes.
• Meanwhile, drain pickled onion. Stir in tomato; taste and season with salt and pepper if desired.
• Divide flautas between plates. Top with remaining turkey filling and garnish with pickled onion and tomato. Drizzle with crema and serve.
Ground Beef is fully cooked when internal temperature reaches 160°.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Feb 2026- Flavor: Many enjoyed the dish, with the pickled onions and tomatoes being a standout. Some found it a bit bland, suggesting extra seasoning or hot sauce.
- Ease of prep: Customers praised the quick and easy preparation, with several mentioning how simple it was to make on a weeknight.
- Suggestions: Consider adding cheese to the filling or as a topping. Some recommended including a side dish or adding more vegetables for a complete meal.
- Portions: Several noted having extra filling left over; others felt the bean-to-meat ratio was too high.
- Texture: The baked flautas turned out crispy for most, though a few found the filling dry and suggested more sauce or toppings.
Reviews from our home cooks
We liked the flautas as well as the garnishes. It all went well together in terms of taste. Felt recipe was not difficult to make. Tortillas were delicious, turned crispy after baking. Tex Mex mix was the strongest flavor, added a spicy, smokey flavor to dish. While flautas were somewhat dry, the pickled onion & tomato mix and crema balanced it with a more juicy and creamy texture. Everything tasted great in combination!
So delicious, easy to make and the whole family loved them! The pickled onions and tomatoes were a favorite, and it was easy to swap the flour tortillas for corn ones for our family member who watches sodium and saturated fat. However, the Tex-Mex Paste is still way too salty, forcing us to stir up our own homemade equivalent to substitute.
The flautas were good... but the pickled onion & tomato was phenomenal. Words do not exist to describe how yummy that was! My husband HATES onions and yet he wanted more, that is how good it tastes. 100% love this meal!
Turkey should probably be browned before putting the black beans in. They were hard to work around. Otherwise it was really good. Loved the pickled onion addition.
Slammin. Better without the whole can of beans. Needs a sprinkle of white cheese, along with the crema, to cut the acidity of the pickled onions (which were sooooo good).
Sooooooo good! Came out great, less ingredients which made this dish simpler than in the past. I wasn't crazy about the crema in the little pouches, too liquidy and harder to handle than making it yourself from regular sour cream packets. Loved it though!
I was pleasantly surprised by these! I was a little iffy about not using cheese, but I really enjoyed the vegetables and crema on top. I hope to make again!
We don't normally like ground turkey, but are always looking for recipes that use ground turkey with lots of taste. This one did! We will order this one again.
This was good but needed something acidic - we added cholula and it really made the dish. Consider using lime with the onions or adding cholula packets for seasoning at the end
I liked these more than I thought I would, especially as I was making them. The pickled veggies were the best part!
