Easy Burrito Bowls
Skip Chipotle and try these burrito bowls right at home. It’s easier, healthier and 10000x tastier!
I finally made a burrito bowl at home. Well, I guess it’s more of a burrito plate. But still. Burrito bowl, burrito plate – I’m in love.
With fresh veggies and just 10 min prep with a creamy chipotle drizzle, what’s not to love?
Plus, this is completely customizable to add in your favorite proteins. Or if you’re like me, you can keep it vegetarian. There’s plenty of goodies to go around here!
And if you really want to go that extra step and make these even healthier, you can use quinoa in place of the rice.
You’ll get that extra kick of protein, and be full for hours on end! So who still wants Chipotle for dinner tonight?
Easy Burrito Bowls
Ingredients
- 1 cup uncooked rice
- 1 cup salsa, homemade or store-bought
- 3 cups chopped Romaine lettuce
- 1 15.25-ounce can whole kernel corn, drained
- 1 15-ounce black beans, drained and rinsed
- 2 Roma tomatoes, diced
- 1 avocado, halved, seeded, peeled and diced
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro leaves
For the chipotle cream sauce
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 tablespoon chipotle paste*
- 1 clove garlic, pressed
- Juice of 1 lime
- ¼ teaspoon salt, or more, to taste
Instructions
- To make the chipotle cream sauce, whisk together sour cream, chipotle paste, garlic, lime juice and salt; set aside.
- In a large saucepan of 1 1/2 cups water, cook rice according to package instructions; let cool and stir in salsa; set aside.
- To assemble the bowls, divide rice mixture into serving bowls; top with lettuce, corn, black beans, tomatoes, avocado and cilantro.
- Serve immediately, drizzled with chipotle cream sauce.
Notes
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Beautiful bowl of colors! Thank you for sharing!
This looks so light and fresh. A perfect lunch! Where do you find chipotle paste? I use canned chipotle all the time but never heard of the paste.
I like to use Olo’s chipotle paste: http://www.olofoods.com/index.html. They come in a cute toothpaste like packaging and last for weeks!
Oh that face! It kills me!
I just love your website! Your recipes are wonderfully easy, the photos are beautiful, and who couldn’t love updates on Butters’ adventures?
We have a version of this recipe that is a STAPLE that we call “DIY chipotle”. I totally want to try your version too! You know, for “research” 🙂 PS. Can I come over at pet sit? Butters is too darn cute!
Gotta love easy meals like this! Yum!
We do not have chipotle here in Australia, so do you have any ideas about what can be used instead?
I recommend using a different dressing that would pair well with the flavors present in this dish such as a lime vinaigrette.
What kind of salsa did you use ?
I used the homemade version: https://damndelicious.net/2013/09/07/restaurant-style-salsa/.
1/4 tsp. Smoked paprika and 3/4 tsp. chili powder, and a chopped roasted jalapeno, seeded.
Thanks so much Barbara Hots for the recipe on the Chipolte Paste. If I can’t find the paste locally its nice to know i can turn to your recipe.
If you get liquid smoke in Oz put a couple of dashes in it. I don’t get canned chipotles here in Colombia either.
I made these this evening and ended up just squeezing half a lime into the sour cream and adding some minced cilantro and salt, delicious! Also, I live alone, and even though I made the full recipe, I portioned it all out into separate containers for lunches and quick dinners for the week! LOVE your website!
Mmm….I love burrito bowls! Yours looks delicious. And butters is so cute! Love that face!
These look great and I love that spoon!! And I love Butters standing there! Skylar’s standing next to me while I’m reading this and she thought Butters was just tooooo cute! 🙂 And love that this is vegetarian on top of it!
Awwww – thanks! Butters has been glued to me during my shoots, bouncing up and down like a pogo stick. But this time, he actually caught himself on the table!
What spoon?