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The word burrito means "little donkey" in Spanish, and the name as applied to the dish was possibly derived from the appearance of bedrolls and packs that donkeys carried.

The burrito bowl, is a but different. It consists of burrito fillings served without the tortilla, with the fillings placed in a bowl, and a layer of rice at the bottom.

We share the recipe for an easy to make Smoked Chipotle Pesto Chicken Burrito for you to try over the weekend.

Ingredients:

Smoked chipotle chicken

Chicken leg boneless: 180 gms

Chopped garlic: 3 gms

Chopped fresh thyme: 1 gms

Salt: 1 gms

Pepper: 1 gms

Tobasco chipotle sauce: 3 gms

Chipotle seasoning: 1 gms

Lemon juice: 1 gms

Chilli paste: 5 gms

Oil: 5 gms

Fajita vegetables

Peppers cut into squares: 40 gms

Zucchini cut into squares: 40 gms

Button mushroom cut into halves: 20 gms

Carrot cut into squares: 20 gms

Chopped garlic: 3 gms

Salt: 1 gms

Peppper: 1 gms

Chopped coriander: 1 gms

Roasted jeera powder: 1 gms

Butter: 3 gms

Tomato paprika sauce: 70 gms

Pesto rice

Basil pesto: 10 gms

Boiled rice: 180 gms

Salt: 1 gms

Pepper : 1 gms

Deseeded blanched tomato: 20 gms

Boiled kidney bean: 10 gms

Chopped onion: 5 gms

Chopped garlic: 3 gms

Lemon juice: 1 gms

Sour cream: 10 gms

Tossed olives and cherry tomato

Olives: 5 gms

Cherry tomato: 5 gms

Chopped garlic: 1 gms

Seasoning: 1 gms

Preparation Method:

Smoked Chipotle Chicken

Marinate the boneless chicken leg with chipotle seasonings and chopped garlic for an hour.

Grill it well on the griller. Finish it in the oven and then slice it up.

Fajita vegetables

Sautee garlic and add fresh cut vegetables.  Adjust seasonings, roasted jeera powder and chopped coriander.

Pesto rice

Sautee onion and garlic.

Add diced de-seeded blanched tomato and toss it well.

Add kidney beans.

Add rice, adjust seasoning, and add basil pesto off range.

Add lemon juice.

Toss olives and tomato with chopped garlic.

Serving suggestion:

Add tomato paprika sauce then add the pesto rice. Arrange the sliced chipotle chicken pieces and then add veggies.  Add sauce and cherry tomato on the top.

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