Making your own burrito bowl at home is so much better. Making them at home allows you to use up any ingredients from your fridge and pantry.
You can customize it to your liking and diet. You can make this vegan,vegetarian and keto. Whatever your preferences are you can choose to make it that way.
There are different components to this dish. To make life easier each of them can be done ahead of time. Like cutting up your protein if using one and marinating overnight. Have the peppers and onions sliced up and ready. By preparing ahead of time, the cook time will be less. It’s all up to you. I do say that this recipe is so worth the preparation. It tastes great and cheaper than takeout.
I have made this several times and I will never order a burrito bowl out again.
The meat was so quick to cook.
I always have beans on hand. I buy dry and cook them myself. I will either freeze them or can them and they taste so much better than the store can ones.
You assemble the bowl in whatever order you want. We put the rice on the bottom and layered from there.
The cilantro lime rice is super easy to make. I used my rice cooker for that. Just add in the lime juice with the water and let the cooker do the rest. When the rice was done we put it in a bowl so we could mix the cilantro in.
For toppings that’s your choice. We did avocado Mexican cream it was so delicious.
Burrito Bowls at Home
Ingredients
- 2 tsp garlic powder for the meat
- 2 tsp onion powder for the meat
- 1 tsp paprika for the meat
- 1 tsp oregano for the meat
- 1 tsp cumin for the meat
- 1 tsp salt for the meat
- 1/2 tsp pepper for the meat
- 1/2 can green chilis for the meat
- 1 1/2 cups pinto or black beans
- 1 tsp onion powder for beans
- 1 tsp garlic powder for beans
- 1 tsp adobo for beans
- 1 tsp Sazon complete for beans
- 1 cup chicken broth for beans
- 3 cups rice
- 3 cups water
- 2 tbsp lime juice about 2 limes
- 1 tbsp fresh cilantro
- 1/2 tsp salt or to taste
- 3 green or multicolored peppers sliced
- 1 onion sliced
- 1 tsp garlic and onion powder for peppers
- salt and pepper to taste for peppers
- 1 tbsp olive oil for pepper
Instructions
- Cut chicken or protein of your choice into bit size pieces and add to a bowl. Season the meat with seasonings listed for meat. Mix seasonings into meat well and set aside. Cut the peppers and onions into slices and put in a baking dish and season those with the seasonings listed for peppers. Put in preheated oven at 375 for about 30 minutes or until peppers and onions are tender. In a medium or large frying pan and in and let that heat up. Once oil is hot add in the seasoned meat and cook until no longer pink inside. At the same time meat is cooking start on the beans. Add the beans to a medium size pot on a medium low heat and add in the broth and seasoning for the beans listed. Cook beans until fully heated through. For the rice add 3 cups rice and 3 cups water to your rice cooker. Add in the lime juice and put the rice cooker on to cook. When rice is done remove from cooker into a bowl and add in the fresh cilantro using a fork to fluff and mix cilantro in. Now it's time to assemble the bowl. You can assemble the bowl in any order you want.
Notes
Also check out the video on making the burrito bowls.
