An easy recipe to make homemade tortillas and a vegetarian filling, and serve them like burritos.
You can serve the burritos with a salad, rice, homemade guacamole and tortilla chips. Enjoy your meal !
Homemade burritos
Ingredients
For 8 wheat tortillas (you can also buy ready-made wheat or corn tortillas)
- 240 g white flour
- 60 g butter
- 130 ml tepid water
- 1/2 tsp salt
Filling
- 600 g red beans
- 2 tomatoes fresh or from can depending on the season
- 1/2 large red onion
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1 avocado
- A few salad leaves
- 4 tbsp thick sour cream
- 1/2 tsp oregano
- 1/2 tsp paprika
- 1/2 coriander
- salt
- pepper
- 2 tsp hot sauce or spicy spice blend for Mexican food
- lime juice
- few cilantro leaves
Instructions
Preparation of the tortillas
- Pour the flour and salt into a bowl.
- Cut the butter into small cubes and add it to the flour. Mix with your fingertips to obtain a crumble texture.
- Then add the water and knead until you get a paste that does not stick and is very elastic.
- Form a ball and let stand while you prepare the filling.
Preparation of the filling
- Finely chop the onion and garlic clove, dice the tomatoes.
- Brown the garlic and onion in a pan in a little olive oil, and then add the diced tomatoes.
- Add the spices (paprika, oregano, coriander) and let it cook for another 4 to 5 minutes.
- Then incorporate the beans and lower the heat, simmer over low heat for 10 minutes.
- You can pour two spoons of tomato sauce according to the consistency you want.
Assembling the tortillas
- Divide the dough into 8 balls of equal size. Take a ball and leave the other balls in the bowl under a slightly damp cloth.
- Flatten the ball under your hands and start to form a disc. Continue with a rolling pin until you obtain a thin disc with a diameter of 15 to 20 cm.
- Heat a pan (or if you have one, a crepe maker), add a little drizzle of olive oil, and cook the tortilla 2/3 minutes per side over medium heat. Do not let the tortilla burn / darken.
- Once your garnish and your tortillas are ready, put the tortilla in a pan on low heat to warm it up, spread the filling on half of the tortilla.
- Mix the sour cream with lime juice and a few cilantro leaves and put some on top of your filling.
- Off the heat, add a few avocado slices and a salade leaf and close the tortilla in half. You can also put the filling in the center, and roll your tortilla to obtain a burrito shape.
Notes
You can add meat to the filling (pieces of chicken, beef for example), some grated cheese, strips of peppers … Treat yourself!
You can also make corn tortillas, or replace white flour with wholemeal flour, etc.
Just try what comes to your mind 🙂