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