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Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

Beans burrito
  • 1½ cups Brown beans
  • 1 Yellow onion big-sized
  • 2 Garlic cloves
  • ½ Lemon
  • 1 Sweet corn
  • ½ tsp Cumin powder
  • ½ tsp Chilli powder
  • 8 Quinoa wrap/totilla wrap
  • ½ tsp Fajita seasoning
Mushroom soup (white button mushrooms and Enoki mushrrom used instead of 3 mushrooms)
Roasted veg burrito
  • 1 pack Mushroom
  • 1 Capsicum
  • 2 Sweet Potato medium-sized
  • 1 Sweet corn
  • 8 to 10 Cheese slices
  • 8 Chia wrap/Tortilla wrap
  • ½ tsp Chili powder
  • ½ tsp Cumin powder
  • ¼ to ½ tsp Fajita seasoning
Pasta sauce(Homemade Pasta Arrabiatta Sauce)
  • 200 to 250 gm White button mushrooms
  • 1½ cups Homemade pasta sauce 12 big cubes of frozen pasta sauce
  • ¼ tsp Oregano powder
  • ¼ tsp Cumin powder
  • ½ tsp Paprika powder
Tandoori chicken marinade
  • 600 to 800 gm Chicken
  • 1 tsp Yogurt heaped
  • ½ tsp Chilli powder
  • ½ tsp Turmeric powder
  • ⅓ tsp Ginger garlic paste
  • ½ tsp Kashmiri chilli powder
  • ½ tsp Garam masala
  • Salt

Method
 

Beans burrito
  1. Add soaked and frozen beans into a pressure cooker.
  2. Add water.
  3. Pressure cook for 4 whistles.
  4. Add oil in a pan.
  5. Add chopped garlic to the pan and fry.
  6. When the garlic has cooked halfway,add the chopped onion.
  7. When the onion is cooked enough add the cooked beans and mix well.
  8. Add chilli powder and cumin powder
  9. Add fajita seasoning.
  10. Mix and cook well.
  11. Add required salt and cook well. Mix and mash with the spatula.
  12. Add lemon juice and mix well
  13. Wrap stuffing is ready.
  14. Add sweet corn in a lined baking tray.
Roasted veg burrito
  1. Line a baking paper in a baking tray.
  2. Add fajita seasoning.
  3. Add olive oil and mix.
  4. Add chopped capsicum strips.
  5. Mix well to blend well with the seasoning.
  6. Add sliced mushrooms and mix well.
  7. Bake the mushroom and capsicum in a preheated oven at 170 C for 12 minutes or until the vegetables are cooked.
  8. Add sweetcorn to a lined baking tray and cook in a preheated oven at 170 C for 10 minutes.
  9. Add olive oil in another lined baking tray.
  10. Add chopped sweet potato strips and mix well.
  11. Add salt and mix well.
  12. Now bake the sweet potato in a preheated oven at 170 C for 18 minutes or until the sweet potatoes are cooked.
  13. Place a chia wrap in a wide plate or tray to assemble.
  14. Add baked sweet potato strips and corn.
  15. Add baked capsicum and mushroom on top of the sweet potato.
  16. Sprinkle crushed pepper
  17. Add cheese slices on all sides of the stuffing.
  18. Fold the wrap by folding the sides into center.
  19. When wrap is ready, keep aside and do the folding for the rest.
  20. When all the wraps are ready and cooled down to room temperature, store them in an air-tght container or in a ziplock packet.
  21. Freeze well.
Pasta sauce
  1. Add oil in a pot/kadai.
  2. Add chopped mushroom and saute
  3. Add the frozen homemade pasta sauce. Refer to Homemade pasta sauce for the recipe
  4. When the sauce starts to cook add the oregano powder.
  5. Add cumin powder.
  6. Add paprika powder and cook well.
  7. When the pasta sauce is ready, let it cool down. Store it in a air-tight container or in a ziplock bag.
Tandoori chicken
  1. Add ginger-garlic paste in a bowl.
  2. Add chili powder.
  3. Add turmeric powder.
  4. Add Kashmiri chilli powder.
  5. Add garam masala powder.
  6. Add salt.
  7. Add yogurt and mix well until all the spice powders blend well with yogurt.
  8. Add cleaned chicken pieces and mix well.
  9. Keep the marinated chicken pieces in a ziplock bag or in an airtight container.
  10. Label and freeze the marinated chicken.
  11. Thaw the chicken pieces when required before cooking.

Notes

Beans Burrito
  1. Soaked and frozen beans take less time to cook. If you are using the soaked-only beans it may need more time/pressure cooker whistles to cook.
Roasted veg burrito
1. While placing the cheese slices on top of the stuffing try to cover all sides. That will help to hold the wrap in a good shape.