Crispy Jalapeño Cream Cheese Buffalo Cauliflower Taquitos.

Switching up taco night with these baked Crispy Jalapeño Cream Cheese Buffalo Cauliflower Taquitos. Roasted cauliflower tossed with spicy and tangy pickled jalapeños, cream cheese, and buffalo sauce. Roll up this delicious blend in corn tortillas, then oven-bake until warm and crispy. These taquitos are crunchy on the outside and spicy and cheesy inside. Serve with a honey mustard ranch and additional buffalo sauce. These come together simply and are so delicious. A fun vegetarian twist on a classic Mexican dish.

If there’s one thing my family universally loves, it’s taco night. We make my crispy chipotle beef tacos at least once a week. We’ve done so since I was a kid and my dad was cooking up dinner. Really, we love any Mexican-inspired recipe, they’re just so delicious.

Sometime last year I shared a fun taquito recipe made with buffalo chicken. I adore that recipe. Those buffalo chicken taquitos are just so delicious!

I’ve been cooking a lot of chicken and beef recently, so when my family headed out of town, I decided a vegetarian night would be perfect for me. I wanted Mexican, so I created these delicious, crispy, cheesy taquitos with roasted cauliflower to make them plant-based.

I swear these are even better than the original chicken taquitos. If you’re looking for a meatless dinner or appetizer for upcoming game nights, this is your recipe!

Here are the steps

Step 1: season and cook the cauliflower

Season the cauliflower filling first with seasoned salt, then place on a baking sheet and roast until the cauliflower florets are lightly charred. When the cauliflower is roasted, you can start mixing and rolling the taquitos.

Already the kitchen should be smelling delish.

Step 2: mix the filling

The filling is simple but different. Because the base is cream cheese and jalapeños I didn’t want to do just buffalo sauce, as I sometimes do. I wanted to add a creamy tangy factor as well.

So I mixed the roasted cauliflower with cream cheese, jalapeños, and pickled jalapeños for the very best flavor. Then a touch of buffalo sauce for some heat. It’s creamy, tangy, and has just the right amount of spice!

Step 3: roll the taquitos

Instead of frying, which is traditional, I much prefer to oven-bake. It’s healthier, easier, and I like the flavor so much better. You actually taste the food, not the fried oil.

Here’s the key, you need to rub each tortilla with olive oil before rolling up the cauliflower. This is the trick to getting the taquitos crispy all around. You will want to use corn tortillas here, not flour tortillas. Once the tortillas are oiled, roll up the cauliflower and cheese inside, then oven-bake. Ten or so minutes later you’ll have crispy delicious taquitos.

Step 4: make the honey mustard ranch

I didn’t want to use another basic ranch. I really wanted both honey mustard and ranch combined. So I took two of my favorite dressings and mixed them into one.

I wasn’t sure how the dressing would turn out, but it’s now a new favorite. It’s everything we love about ranch with a subtle sweetness that honey mustard gives off. It’s hard to describe but trust me, this dressing/sauce situation is SO GOOD. My family was very into it.

Tip: I like to make my dressing on the thinner side so I can easily drizzle it over the taquitos.

Everything paired together…the crispy taquitos with the creamy roasted cauliflower and cheese inside. Then topped with both a tangy/sweet sauce and a spicy buttery hot sauce…

Wow, so many yummy flavors and we love the crunchiness of the taquitos too!

Pretty hard not to love. And they make any random night of the week feel fun and exciting too!

Looking for other weeknight-night recipes? Try these!

Skillet Corn and Chipotle Chicken Tortilla Bake

One Skillet Saucy Chicken Tortilla Enchilada Rice Bake

Crockpot Crispy Chicken Tinga Tacos with Avocado Jalapeño Crema

Jalapeño Pineapple Shrimp Tacos with Cilantro Garlic Sauce

Crispy Jalapeño Cream Cheese Buffalo Chicken Taquitos

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