Super GF Burritos

Super Chipotle Chicken Burrito

A couple of years ago when the ‘Wrap’ craze was under way, I felt left out again as little boutique style restaurants sprung up everywhere offering the chic new fast food meal, super burritos. Delicious combinations of rice, beans, vegetables, meats, seafood and terrific sauces all wrapped up in white, red or green flour tortillas. A , hold in your hand, satisfying meal that I could only watch other people eat. One of a million sad stories we are all familiar with, oh well.

A couple of weeks ago, I was driving in my car and an advertisement for another ‘Wrap’ restaurant chain began to tantalize me with blow by blow descriptions of their ‘Southwest Super Burrito’ or ‘Super Thai Burrito’, or etc. etc…….and I decided to fight back. Glutenfreeda would develop rival Super Burritos to match anything they could think up!

First challenge, what will we use for the wrap? Corn tortillas are too small to hold enough ingredients and our homemade gf flour tortillas are sometimes not supple enough to hold together with that much stuffing……Then I found in my local grocery store, corn tortillas, super burrito size! To soften them, I heated them one by one on a dry cast iron tortilla pan over a high flame. You can use any large cast iron pan, or any heavy-duty skillet that will take high heat. I heat the tortillas just until pliable and then turn them over just until the tortilla is soft and bendable. I heat the oven to 250 degrees F, and place the soft tortillas in foil and keep them warm in the oven until I’m ready to assemble them.

Now the fun begins. Follow our general formula and you can make as many Super Burrito combinations as your imagination will allow.

The formula is simple: Spread gf sour cream or aoli on the warmed tortilla, add a layer of hot cooked rice, then add rinsed and drained beans of your choice, meat or fish, flavorings and wrap!

– Glutenfreeda