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Yum Alert: Root Vegetable Tacos with Cilantro Lime Cream

Root Veggie Tacos
Written by emilyc

Meatless tacos are the best and the safest, even when they’re not from Taco Bell. These root veggie tacos are the perfect way to merge Mexican food with fall cuisine. Recipe and image via Williams-Sonoma.

Root Veggie Tacos

Filling ingredients:

2 sweet potatoes, peeled and chopped

4 parsnips, peeled and cut into 1/4-inch (6-mm.) dice

2 Tbs. canola oil

1 Tbs. ground cumin

1 tsp. ground coriander

1/2 tsp. chili powder

Salt

For the lime-cilantro cream:

1/2 cup (4 oz./125 g.) sour cream

1/4 cup (1/3 oz./10 g.) finely chopped fresh cilantro, plus more for garnish

Juice of 1 lime

Salt and freshly ground pepper

For the tomatillo salsa:

6 tomatillos, husked and halved

1 jalapeno chile, halved lengthwise and and seeded

1/4 cup (1/3 oz./10 g.) fresh cilantro leaves

1/4 white onion, roughly chopped

1 clove garlic

Salt and freshly ground pepper

 

10-12 small corn tortillas, warmed

 

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About the author

emilyc

Emily is a New Yorker trapped in a Floridian's body and loves every minute of her big city life. With a major in international business and years of being surrounded by ill-fitting suits and all the wrong shoes, she learned that the importance of fashion needs to be communicated to the world. To her, fashion is on the same level as charity work and feeding hungry children. Emily can be found frolicking the streets of her gayborhood enjoying the off-color humor of the gays.