Delicious Bean Burrito
This tasty burrito with beans, corn, rice, and avocado is a fun and creative recipe. The colorful ingredients are prepared individually, and everyone can assemble their own burrito on a whole wheat tortilla as they like. Kids enjoy it, and it's great for gatherings too, as it adds a fun activity to the meal.
Equipment
- Large skillet
Ingredients
- 1 kg cooked red beans or 500 g dried red beans
- 1 large onion
- 4 large tomatoes
- 1 red bell pepper
- 200 g frozen corn
- 1 tsp salt plus extra for cooking beans, or to taste
- 1 tsp soup seasoning
- 1 tbsp paprika powder
- 1 tbsp Tabasco sauce plus more for serving (or another hot sauce)
- A bit of fresh basil
- 16 whole wheat tortillas or more, depending on size
- 2½ cups whole grain rice
- 2 avocados
- 16 leaves of green lettuce approx. 1 head of lettuce
Instructions
- If using dried beans: Soak them overnight, rinse in the morning, and cook with a bit of salt and cumin until soft (about 60 minutes on the stove, or 20 minutes in a pressure cooker). Drain and set aside.
- If using canned/jarred beans: Drain and set aside.
- Rinse the rice and cook it in salted water (about 30 minutes). Let it cool slightly afterward.
- In a large skillet, sauté finely chopped onion in a bit of water until soft. Add drained beans, salt, soup seasoning, paprika powder, and Tabasco. Cook for 5–10 minutes.
- Dice the tomatoes, add them to the skillet along with frozen corn, and stir well. Remove from heat and add a bit of chopped fresh basil.
- Wash the lettuce and separate the leaves.
- Peel and slice the avocados into strips.
- For each tortilla, layer: one leaf of lettuce, some whole grain rice, the bean-tomato-corn sauce, one or two avocado strips, and optionally more Tabasco sauce on top.
- Roll up the tortilla by first folding the top and bottom, then the sides. Optionally, cut the burrito in half before serving.
Tips and Info
- Instead of avocado, you can use guacamole.
- For a juicier version, you can add some tomato sauce to the beans.
- You can skip the rice and use more lettuce and bean sauce instead.