One Pot Black Bean Enchilada Pasta Recipe (2024)

This One Pot Black Bean Enchilada Pasta is an easy vegetarian one dish recipe you can make for lunch or dinner. My kids love it, so I’m sure your family will be all over it, too! It’s ready in under 30 minutes and full of healthy ingredients.

With two kids and an almost-summer garden to tend to, I’m loving one pot meals more than ever. Seriously, whoever invented one pot pasta, I want to hug you. You’re making my life SO much easier.

This one pot wonder is inspired by all your favorite Mexican flavors – and comes together in no time at all!

Ingredients you’ll need

Here is a visual overview of the ingredients in the recipe. Scroll down to the printable recipe card at the bottom of this post for quantities!

• short pasta
• black beans
• yellow pepper
• red pepper
• sweet corn
• diced tomatoes
• enchilada sauce
• taco seasoning
• broth
• shredded cheddar
• cilantro, cherry tomatoes, lime wedgesto serve (optional)

Ingredient notes

For the pasta, you can use pretty much any short shape that cooks in around 8 minutes AND aren’t large tubes. Macaroni, spirals, bow-ties… All great choices. Penne may work ok, but rigatoni aren’t the best here because all the corn and black beans will get stuck inside.

You can use canned or frozen sweet corn. No need to defrost if it’s frozen, it will defrost and cook right in the sauce!

Use your favorite canned tomatoes in place of the diced ones I used. I bet fire-roasted would be amazing here!

If you don’t have any enchilada sauce on hand, substitute tomato sauce and add a little extra taco seasoning.

For the broth, feel free to use either vegetable broth or chicken broth. If you don’t have either, water works, but it will be a little less flavorful.

Use your favorite shredded cheese in place of the cheddar! A Mexican blend would obviously work well, but so would most shredd-able and flavorful cheeses.

If you want to bulk it up, add ground beef or diced chicken breast – just brown the meat first, then add all other ingredients and proceed with the recipe as written.

Key steps

There are no key steps here!

Seriously, just stir everything (apart from cheese and garnishes) together in a large pot like so:

And then simmer until the pasta is done ??‍♀️

Then you simmer everything until the pasta is done and stir in the cheese, then serve with your favorite toppings.

Leftovers

If you have leftovers, it’s best to pack them into a smaller casserole dish, cover and refrigerate for up to 3 days.

Then stir about 1 cup enchilada sauce or tomato sauce into the pasta, top with cheese and bake at 400°F for 20-30 minutes, or until bubbly and steaming hot all the way through.

Serving suggestions

This is a great meal by itself, but if you want to serve it with anything additional, here are some ideas:

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