Chicken Burrito Recipe

A super-filling meal stuffed with various filling like seasoned rice, tangy mexican salsa, grilled fajitas, sauteed spicy chicken, sour cream, cucumber and cheese. The perfect dish that you can make it for any celebration or just simply treat your family members with a wonderful mexican meal this sunday.

Shaheen Ali
Chicken Burrito Recipe
7245 ratings.

Burrito is a super-filling snack stuffed with various veg and non-veg options along with plenty of cheese and sour cream.Chicken Burrito is made with an amazing combination of salsa, some taco seasoning and shredded chicken. The burrito can be wrapped up with lot of salads to go along. Usually the burrito is wrapped by using tortilla but you can also make whole wheat tortillas at home for a much healthier option.

Serve Chicken Burrito along with Low Fat Vegetable Dip Recipe with Herbs at your house parties or serve it for your weekend dinners.

If you like this recipe, you can also try other Burrito recipes such as : 

  1. Mexican Vegetarian Burrito Bowl Recipe
  2. Black Bean Burrito Recipe
  3. Naked Burrito Bowl Recipe

Cuisine: Mexican
Course: Lunch
Diet: Non Vegeterian
Prep in

10 M

Cooks in

40 M

Total in

50 M

Makes:

4 Servings

Ingredients

    For the Chicken
  • 300 grams Chicken , cut into stripes
  • 1 Onion , sliced
  • 4 cloves Garlic , chopped
  • 1 inch Ginger , chopped
  • 1 tablespoon Cumin powder (Jeera)
  • 1 teaspoon Black pepper powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon Powder (Dalchini)
  • 2 teaspoon Paprika powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon Turmeric powder (Haldi)
  • Salt , to taste
  • For the Beans
  • 1/2 cup Rajma (Large Kidney Beans) , soaked and boiled
  • 1 Onion , chopped
  • 1 Tomato , chopped
  • 4 cloves Garlic , chopped
  • 1 tablespoon Cumin powder (Jeera)
  • 1 tablespoon Red Chilli powder
  • 1 teaspoon Black pepper powder
  • 1 teaspoon Sugar
  • Salt , to taste
  • For the Rice
  • 1/4 cup Cooked rice
  • 1 tablespoon Dried Thyme Leaves
  • 1 tablespoon Paprika powder
  • Salt , to taste
  • For Fajitha
  • 1/2 Green Bell Pepper (Capsicum)
  • 1/2 Red Bell pepper (Capsicum)
  • 1/2 Yellow Bell Pepper (Capsicum)
  • 1/2 Onion
  • 1 tablespoon Cumin powder (Jeera)
  • 1 tablespoon Paprika powder
  • Salt , to taste
  • Other Ingredients
  • 1 cup Tomato Salsa
  • 1 cup Sour cream
  • 1/4 cup Cheese , grated
  • 2 Tortillas

How to make Chicken Burrito Recipe

  1. To begin making the Chicken Burrito Recipe, we will first pressure cook the rajma beans in a pressure cooker in about 2 cups of water and salt for at least 30 minutes.

To make the Fried Beans
  1. Once done, allow the pressure to release naturally and keep it aside. Heat a skillet with oil, add garlic and saute till it softens.

  2. Add in onions and saute till they turn translucent and crispy, add in cooked rajma beans and tomatoes together so that the tomatoes remain fresh and juicy as it gets blended with the rajma.

  3. Sprinkle salt to taste and spice powders like cumin powder, red chilli powder and pepper powder and give it a mix. Check for seasoning, if required, dd some more and keep sautéing until the mixture comes together. Once done, allow it to cool for some time. 

To make the Sauteed Chicken 
  1. Wash the chicken breast thoroughly and cut them into thin stripes and set aside. 

  2. Heat a sauce pan with a tablespoon oil, add ginger and garlic and saute till they turn soft. Later add in the onions and saute till they turn translucent.

  3. Once the onions are lightly sauteed, add cooked jackfruit and give it a mix. Sprinkle the spice powders like paprika, pepper, turmeric, cumin, cinnamon and salt to taste. Give it a toss and check for seasonings again and set aside to cool.

For the rice
  1. Heat a sautéing pan with oil, add rice and sprinkle with thyme, paprika powder and salt and give it a toss.

For the Fajitas
  1. Heat a grill pan with oil, add  onions, bell peppers allow it to cook for few minutes. 

  2. Sprinkle with spice powders like cumin powder, paprika powder and salt. Toss it well and cook till the bell peppers are soft and crunchy. Once done set aside. 

  3. To make the Mexican salsa and sour cream, click on the link below and follow the steps:

  4. How to Mexican salsa
  5. How to make Sour cream
To Assemble
  1. Warm up the tortillas for 2 minutes on either side. Place the Tortillia on a foil to roll. Layer it with rice first.

  2. Then add in some Mexican tomato salsa, followed by Sauteed Chicken, fried beans, fajitas, sour cream and roll it tightly and cover it with a foil. Cut them half and serve.

  3. Serve Chicken Burrito along with Low Fat Vegetable Dip Recipe with Herbs at your house parties or serve it for your weekend dinners.