Chicken Burrito: Mexican Recipe

Burrito with chicken, the recipe of which will be discussed below, is a national Mexican dish, very similar to oriental shawarma. Such a stuffed tortilla is prepared from various vegetables, meat, herbs and spices.

Chicken burrito recipe : essential ingredients for eight servings

We need to take:

• 
  sunflower oil - two full large spoons;
• chicken breasts - eight hundred grams;
• prepared cakes based on drinking water and cornmeal - eight pieces;
• Korean cabbage - one small forks;
• lettuce leaves - sixteen pieces;
• ripe tomatoes - five large pieces;
• green onion - three pieces;
• hard cheese - two hundred and fifty grams;
• onions - two large heads;
• ground red pepper - two incomplete dessert spoons;
• cumin - five grams;
• iodized salt - at personal discretion;
• Bulgarian pepper - one green thing;
• canned red beans - one jar.

Chicken Burrito: Chicken Breast Recipe

For such a Mexican dish, it’s best to take lean, but large chicken breasts. They must be washed in cold water, completely freed from the skin, bones and cartilage, and then chop with a thin and long straw. Next, the meat must be put in a small pan, add two large tablespoons of sunflower oil to it and fry over low heat until a brownish crust appears.

Chicken burrito: a recipe for cooking vegetables

A head of small Korean cabbage, ripe tomatoes, onions and bell pepper should be washed, peeled from superficial leaves and stalks, and then finely chopped. After that, you need to open the canned beans and drain all the liquid from the can. It is also necessary to thoroughly rinse lettuce leaves and green onion arrows.

Burrito with chicken: the recipe for the preparation of the filling for the dish

For fried chicken breasts , chopped tomatoes, bell peppers, Korean cabbage, onions and canned beans should be added alternately. All ingredients should be mixed well with meat and vegetable oil, and then lightly fry for twenty minutes. Also, the filling for burrito must be flavored with red ground pepper, caraway seeds and iodized salt. After this, you need to immediately grate the cheese on a coarse grater, add it to the main products and stir so that it completely melts.

Burrito with chicken formation

Fresh and soft cakes should be laid out on a cutting board, and then put in their middle two leaves of green salad and two full large spoons (if desired, more can be) of chicken and vegetable toppings. Next, with stuffed cakes, it is necessary to wrap the sides first, and then the lower part.

The finished portioned dish should be put in a bowl coated with oil, covered with a dense foil and put in the oven for about thirty minutes. After time, Mexican food will be ready to eat.

Dish features

Chicken burrito, the photo of which is presented above, can be made not only from purchased corn tortillas, but also from independently made similar pancakes based on kefir or eggs.