If you are like me and stuck in the rut of eating out all the time for the sake of convenience, you may want to try this out. Although refried beans may not be the healthiest alternative to fast food or store-bought frozen burritos, at least you know your ingredients are fresh and you get to choose which ones go in. If you do not like the way I made these burritos and you have your own favorite version of bean burrito, all you have to do it make it and follow the rest of these simple directions for freezing--and then maybe share your recipe with me :). I am always up for a good refried bean burrito recipe. My recipe is very simple because my husband likes his food to be simple and I wanted to be sure I was making something he would want to eat everyday. There is nothing like making a mass quantity of food that no one will eat :(
Ingredients:
(you decide on the quantity depending on how many burritos you want)
-your favorite refried beans (I used Rosarita, what I had on hand)
-La Victoria thick and chunky salsa verde (to flavor the beans)
-your favorite enchilada sauce (I chose to go with el Pato red enchilada sauce because I had never used their enchilada sauce and wanted to try it out. Tastes very similar to their tomato sauce)
-shredded cheddar cheese
-your favorite tortilla (food city has some they make fresh every morning and I like them the best)
-plastic wrap
Note: I used 4 cans of beans which made about 14 burritos. My tortillas were about the 12 inch size.
Place a stack of tortillas on a plate and heat them up for about 30 seconds in the microwave. This will make them easier to roll up without tearing. Dump the beans into a bowl and mix some of the salsa verde into it. This is to flavor the beans and it also thins them out a little. Add the salsa according to your own taste. Spread a spoonful or two of beans onto a tortilla. Add about a table spoon of enchilada sauce. The more sauce you add, the messier the burrito will be when you eat it. Sprinkle a small handful of cheese. Roll up burrito. If you dont know how to roll up a burrito, there are many tutorials online, though most I found in an attempt to post one on here were really, really terrible. Don't look to an American white male to show you how to roll a burrito. Judging from those tutorials I found, they don't know what they are doing!
Anyway, once you are done rolling all your burritos, roll them individually in plastic wrap and freeze them. When you reheat them in the microwave, it seems that 2 to 3 minutes does the job, turing over once. Enjoy!
It cost me less than 6 dollars to make 14 burritos.