If you still have meat or rice left from the festive feast, as well as stewed vegetables, then you can cook Mexican-style burritos. The recipe for this dish came to us from sunny Central America.
In the original, it consists of thin corn tortillas (tortilla), which can be replaced with thin pita bread, and fillings. The latter can be quite diverse.
Mexican Chicken Buritos Recipe
You can make this dish with meat filling or with vegetable. Let's cook it with chicken first. It will need about eight hundred grams, as well as greens, chili, white or motley canned beans, and cheese to taste. Cut the chicken into thin strips. Mexican Burritos recipe allows you to marinate it first in your favorite marinade. Then the meat needs to be fried - quickly and often turning over. Add to it the greens and peppers, previously cut, sprinkle with beans and cheese. Wrap in tortilla or pita bread, roll with a roll or a tube, then gently fry in a dry pan or grill. Serve by cutting the bundle with meat diagonally in half.
Mexican Burritos Recipe with Beef and Rice
First prepare the meat filling. For it, you need to take half a kilogram of ground beef, a tablespoon of tomato paste, garlic to taste, a couple of spoons of finely chopped onions, olive oil for frying, cinnamon, pepper and herbs. First, heat the pan, then add oil, when it reaches the optimum temperature, proceed to frying. First onions, then garlic and minced meat. Add tomato paste in the middle of cooking. Since overheating of a tomato can add unnecessary bitterness to a dish and provoke heartburn, you need to prevent this. If too much juice is released during the roasting process, it is best to drain it. Mexican Burritos recipe implies that the filling will be quite dry. To make up for this, various sauces are served with the dish. We continue to deal with the filling. Boil a glass of rice, grate cheese, cut tomatoes and cucumbers into small cubes. Spread the filling on the corn cakes and try to fold it tight so that the buritos do not break up during further manipulations. These meat rolls can be fried before serving, or you can do without it. Let's make some more authentic Mexican sauces. After all, even if you know how to cook burritos, this dish will not be complete without guacamole or salsa.
Guacamole
This appetizer is made from mashed avocado pulp with the addition of various spices. It is good not only with buritos, but also with fried potatoes or just vegetables. The most common version of this sauce is with onions, garlic, lime and tomato. Mix the listed ingredients in arbitrary proportions with two avocados, grind in a blender until smooth.
Salsa
Grind ripe tomatoes (pulp without juice and seeds) with hot pepper, celery, cilantro, parsley and mint. Add lime juice, bringing the sauce to the desired density. It is advisable to do this manually, then the desired texture will be saved.