CREAMY CHICKEN & CHEESE BURRITO
This post is a little different to our past recipe posts.
This recipe is NOT available in ANY of our Recipe Packs, we have put this together ourselves along with a few others that we will be posting in the future for you all.
With the drastic changes in household expenses, the crazy increase in rent, mortgage fees, groceries and more... We have trialed and tested our own recipes that are incredibly affordable and can feed the whole family.
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We have also provided the shopping list WITHOUT any deals or discounts available so you can see the total cost.
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Anyways, here is what you came to this post for, the recipe ⬇️
Ingredients;
Coles Basmati Rice (Uncooked) - 200g
Coles Fold n Roll Tortilla - 6 wraps
Chipotle in Adobo Sauce - 30g
Coles Tomato Salsa (I went mild but you can choose whatever you like) - 300g
Coles Light Cream Cheese Spreadable - 250g
Coles Mexican Style Blend Shredded Cheese - 125g
Woolworths Chicken Mince - 1kg
Mingle Chipotle or Taco Seasoning - 15g
Method;
Cook rice in rice cooker or on the stove. *NOTE: Yes, I rinse the rice. I then place it in the rice cooker and fill the water until it goes to my first knuckle above the rice. Once cooked this then weighs very close to 600g, allowing me to put in 100g of cooked rice into each wrap.
In a pan on medium/high heat cook the chicken mince until colour changes then add in your seasoning of choice.
Once chicken is cooked through add in your jar of salsa, the tub of cream cheese and adobo sauce and mix through. Once the cream cheese has melted down, add in your Mexican shredded cheese and mix through.
You can mix your rice in with this as well and dish into equal serves on your wraps however I do not do this.
Heat an individual wrap for 15-20sec in the microwave, add 100g cooked rice, 1/6 of the total weight of filling, wrap up and put on a sandwich press until sealed and lightly browned. REPEAT for each wrap.
Leave until wraps cool before wrapping them in aluminum foil.
Storage;
This makes 6 total wraps for me (Harley). I store 3 in the fridge and 3 in the freezer, my breakfast is now prepped for the week.
Reheat: I reheat the refrigerated Burritos on the sandwich press, they take about 10 min to heat all the way through. The frozen ones I reheat in the oven at 200 degrees, I pop it in and turn it over after 20min and leave for another 20min. This will obviously be faster for you if you have an air fryer instead, maybe 5 - 10min at 200 degrees.
Shopping;
We shop mostly at Coles because it is closer to home. The wraps at Coles are much larger than the Woolworths Jumbo wraps. If you are getting a different wrap, then that will change the calories for the recipe.
Coles Basmati Rice - $18.00 (this was for a 5kg bag - this will not be a continuous weekly cost so technically it would cost you $0.36 per 100g but I will not use that cost).
Coles Fold n Roll Tortilla - $4.50
Chipotle in Adobo Sauce - $6.50 (this will last multiple weeks).
Coles Tomato Salsa - $1.50
Coles Light Cream Cheese Spreadable - $2.90
Coles Mexican Style Blend Shredded Cheese - $4.90 (this will last you 2 weeks as you will only need half for the recipe).
Woolworths Chicken Mince - $10.00
Mingle Chipotle or Taco Seasoning - $2.60
TOTAL Shop - $50.00
Remember, the rice will be used for a long time. I try to make recipes in which I can use everything for the week, so the Mexican cheese and Adobo sauce are the only things that can be used over multiple weeks. For example, when I purchased all of this last week for my meal prep, it cost me $25.00.
MACROS - FULL RECIPE
Total Calories - 5,007
Carbs - 481.5g
Fats - 202.3g
Protein - 310.6g
I make this into 6 burritos at the time of writing the recipe, I use this as my go to for breakfast as I am on a calorie deficit.
MACROS - PER SERVE (6 serves)
Total Calories - 834
Carbs - 80.2g
Fats - 33.7g
Protein - 51.8g
If you have any questions please add a comment, I am happy to break anything down for you.
On average the total weekly cost is under $30 for my breakfast. My calorie intake will be different to yours, whilst on a deficit I am sitting at just under 2400 calories per day to gradually reduce body fat whilst I work on strength training.
Our next recipe post will be the breakfast that Eve uses for her week whilst she is in a deficit.