2015 Cooking Club Week 8: Burrito Bowls

Mexican is possibly my favourite food. Burrito Bowls would be my favourite. I have came across a few recipes and have adapted my own.

There are loads of variations to this. Me, being my usual unprepared self, panicked and forgot a few ingredients so adapted it slightly.

I had no garlic, no chilli powder, canned tomatoes or cumin so had to change my recipe slightly. Instead i used garlic powder, paprika, fresh tomatoes (which kinda worked a little better) and actual chillies.

I scaled it down and made one huge portion last night which was not finished.


This makes 4-5 decent sized burrito bowls

Ingredients:

• 500g mince
• 1 red onion diced
• 1 red pepper diced
• 200g uncooked rice...very important its uncooked
• 1 tin diced tomatoes, drained
• 150g kidney beans or black beans (optional)
• 1 clove of garlic minced (i used 1 tsp garlic powder)
• 1/2 tsp chilli powder (i shaved strips off a chilli and minced it with a knife)
• 1 tsp cumin (i used paprika instead....would recommend adding paprika as well)
• 450ml veg stock
• Salt
• Pepper

To finish:
diced green onions
grated cheese (i used monterey jack cheese)
diced fresh tomatoes
sour cream
guacamole

Method:

• Sautee the onions and pepper until they go soft.
• Then brown your mince.
• Season with Salt and Pepper
• Push this all to the side and add your uncooked rice.
• Fry off your uncooked rice until it starts to brown
• Next add your spices, tomatoes and stock
• Bring to a boil and simmer
• Cover the pan and let slow cook for 20 mins or until the rice is cooked.
• When it is cooked, sprinkle cheese on top and let it melt.
• Plate up and dress with your sour cream and guacamole.

You can easily put these into wraps and serve with the following sweet corn salsa:

• Sweet corn
• roasted pepper
• diced onions
• lime juice
• corriander
• jalepeno pepper

Dice everything and mix in a bowl with lime juice.


You can make this with chicken just brown the chicken and use chicken stock instead.

Please excuse the pictures, i added way too much stock making this the other night. Its not as disgusting as my pictures look i swear!