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Prep Time: 30 minutes or less | Cook Time: 30 minutes - 1 hour | Serves: 8
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Ingredients:
Ever wonder how to make your own Burritos? Yes? Well, here's a recipe for burritos. I have modified the original (which was given to me by my friend a long time ago) to include meat. The reason for this is to make it a whole meal that I can make quickly and keep in the freezer for those occasions when we don't feel like cooking e.g. when we fall out of the pub on a Friday.
Ignore the vinegar, it snuck in some how, but was not needed.
- 500g (1.1 pounds) mince (we used beef here, because that's what we had, 50% beef 50% pork is nicer, you can even use chicken or turkey mince. Never tried lamb mince in this recipe.)
- 400g (14 ounces) refried beans
- about half a lettuce
- 4 or 5 tomatoes
- a big bunch of chives
- 200g (7 ounces) cheddar cheese
- 2 large onions (or 3 small like in the picture)
- 8 flour tortillas that are nice and soft
- 2 teaspoons chilli powder
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 2 tablespoons sunflower oil
- salt and pepper
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Step 1:
Heat the oven on medium.
Chop the onions and fry them over a medium heat until soft (about 10 minutes).
Whilst they are frying, mix the spices together and make a paste with a little water.
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Step 2:
Add the paste to the onions and continue to fry for 5 more minutes (this cooks the spices, improving flavour and preventing later indigestion).
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Step 3:
Add the mince and continue to fry until the meat looses its uncooked colour.
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Step 4:
Add your refried beans (we use a can to save time, your own beans would be even yummier!), combine with the meat and heat through.
Season with salt and pepper to your liking.
Note: The stiffer the beans the better, sloppy beans will muck up the end result, although you could cook the mixture longer to reduce sloppiness.
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Step 5:
Switch off the hob and chop your tomatoes and chives. (The tomatoes must be deseeded first)
Grate the cheease and slice the lettuce.
Should all look like so:
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Step 6:
Warm a tortilla in the microwave for about 10-15 seconds, and place it onto a clean worksurface.
Build your burrito by piling up some lettuce, cheese, meat/bean mix, tomatoes and finally chives, like so:
Note: You'll need to experiment to find the right quantities of each to put on - too much and your buritto will burst!
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Step 7:
Next, fold the burrito into a little parcel, below is my technique for this at the half-way stage.
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Step 8:
When folded place the burrito in a nice big oven proof dish (we use a lasagne dish).
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Step 9:
Repeat until you've run out of ingredients and violá, nicely stacked burritos:
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Step 10:
Cover these Burrito beauties tightly with kitchen foil and cook them in the oven for about 40 minutes.
Serve with guacamole, soured cream or greek yoghurt (all all three!!!)
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