Super Quick Burritos Recipe
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Burritos are easy to make, easy to eat and really tasty, so I am surprised that people don’t make these at home more often. Kids love them too as they can hold them while they eat them, which gives them a hand free to throw things at their siblings or cause lots of other mischief!
Ingredients:
- - 3 boneless chicken breasts
- - 8oz of salsa
- - 1 can of refried beans
- - 8oz of shredded taco cheese
- - 1 pack of 8 burrito size tortillas
- - Anything else you want to add!
What you need to do:
Marinating and cooking the chicken is the hardest part of the recipe, the rest is simple. Grab yourself a large saucepan and put the chicken breasts in it, then cover them with all the salsa and add water to the pan just high enough to cover the chicken breasts. Place that over a medium heat until the water starts to boil, and then reduce the heat down so it is just simmering and leave it like that for 15 minutes. When the chicken is cooked the meat should be white all the way through, so cut each chicken breast open if you have to in order to check they are cooked properly, if it is proceed to the next step, if not then boil it for a bit longer.
Now remove the chicken using some sort of utensil (as they will be hot!) and cut it into strips, then pop those strips back into the pan and continue boiling the mixture. The idea now is to reduce the salsa/water mix to make it into a thicker sauce that you can add to the burritos, if it is too watery it is just going to make the burrito soggy and it will fall apart. So keep boiling it until it reduces down to a creamy paste.
Once you are happy with that then take it off the heat and get ready to make some burritos. First grab a tortilla and lay it out on a clean, flat surface, then put 3 teaspoons of refried beans down the middle of the tortilla, and 4 teaspoons of the salsa mix on top of that, with a few chunks of the chicken, then sprinkle liberally with cheese. Now you need to fold it up and there is an art to that.
It takes a bit of getting used to but basically you fold in the top and bottom of the tortilla (the top and bottom of the line of the ingredients) which keeps everything from falling out, then you fold the left ‘wing’ of the tortilla completely over the middle so it protects the ingredients, and then start to roll the tortilla from the left all the way over to the right so it turns into a nice, tight burrito for you to enjoy! It is hard to explain in text but after the first one is a bit of a mess then you will quickly get the hang of it, and if you mess up you can just let it unroll and start again.
Now if you want to you can eat them like that, but personally I would either pop them into the microwave for a few minutes to heat the refried beans and cheese up, or pop them into the oven for 10 minutes instead. You can also experiment with the filling by adding in chopped peppers and lettuce or whatever you want, however if you add anything cold like salad then I wouldn’t advise you then heat the whole thing up! Instead if you do that then heat the refried beans up separately before you add them and just eat it straight away after wrapping it up.
Voila!