Chicken Burritos
Burritos are a great dish for just about anyone. The main mixture (here chicken and vegetables) can be complimented with salsa, sour cream, limes, oranges - all sorts of things. This recipe makes use of ingredients that needed to be used up at the time, so burritos also serve as nice way to use up a number of items that you might have left in the fridge from earlier meals. Originally served as part of: Chicken Burritos.
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 onion (peeled and sliced)
- 1 clove garlic (minced)
- 1/2 red pepper (chopped)
- 1/2 orange pepper (chopped)
- 3 ounces cremini mushrooms (sliced)
- 1/2 tablespoon chili powder
- to taste salt & pepper
- 2 tablespoons chicken stock
- 1 boneless, skinless breast chicken (poached, sliced)
- 4 flour tortillas
- lettuce,lime slices, sour cream, salsa
Instructions
We heat the olive oil in a large pan. We add the onions and saute until they are translucent. Next we add the peppers, cooking for a few more minutes. We add the mushrooms, sauteeing until tender. Finally, we add the garlic and chili powder and cook for a minute. We add a little chicken stock and the chicken, heating for a couple of minutes to warm up the the chicken strips.
We cover a plate with a paper towel and put the tortillas on top. We cover the tortillas with another paper towel and cook in the microwave for a minute.
We serve the chicken mixture over the warm tortillas with the lettuce, sour cream, salsa and a squeeze of lime.
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion (sliced)
- ½ red bell pepper (chopped)
- ½ orange bell pepper (chopped)
- 3 oz cremini mushrooms (sliced)
- 1 clove garlic (minced)
- ½ tbsp chili powder
- salt and pepper
- 2 tbsp chicken stock
- 1 boneless skinless chicken breast (poached and sliced)
- 4 flour tortillas
- lettuce, sour cream, salsa and lime
Instructions
What's a kid job?
A Kid job is a step kids can help with, with a grown-up nearby, not one they do on their own. Every kid is different, so go by what your child can do rather than by age. Roughly:
- Little ones (about 2 to 4) can stir, pour in ingredients a grown-up has measured, tear lettuce, wash vegetables and sprinkle toppings.
- Older kids (about 5 to 8) can also measure and level, crack eggs, whisk, roll and cut out dough, and put things together.
- Bigger kids can read the recipe aloud, keep track of the timer, and take on more of the cooking as they're ready.
Steps with a knife, microplane, skewers, stove, oven, grill or hot oil, or with raw meat, poultry or seafood, are marked Grown-up. Kids can still watch those, from a safe distance.
Heat the oil in a large pan and sauté the onion until translucent. Add the peppers for a few minutes, then the mushrooms until tender.
Add the garlic and chili powder for 1 minute. Add the stock and chicken and heat a couple of minutes. Season.
Warm the tortillas between paper towels in the microwave for 1 minute.
Kid job
Fill the tortillas with the chicken and top with lettuce, sour cream, salsa and a squeeze of lime.