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Thursday, May 6, 2010

Mexican Burrito Bowl

Burrito bowl contains very healthy ingredients like Avacado guacamole,black beans and Lettuce leaves.

Avocado is considered the world's healthiest fruit, because of its nutrient contents such as vitamin K, dietary fiber, potassium, folic acid, vitamin B6, vitamin C, copper, and reasonable calories in it.

Black Beans are a wonderful source of dietary fiber which has been shown to naturally help lower cholesterol. In addition, the high fiber content in Black Beans helps keep blood sugar levels from rising too rapidly after a meal.

Lettuce is a good source of chlorophyll and vitamin K.It is a very good for dieters because it is very low in calories.It is a good source of Iron.

INGREDIENTS
1 Tbsp oil
1/2 cup rice
1/2 cup black beans or pinto beans (rajmah)
1/2 onion chopped fine
1/2 tomato chopped fine
2 Tbsp sour cream
2 Tbsp guacamole
1 Tbsp boiled or tinned corn
2 Tbsp grated cheese
1/2 capsicum chopped thin and long.
1/2 onion chopped thin and long.
2 Tbsp salsa
salt to taste
1/2 tsp red chili powder (optional)
1 tsp red chili garlic sauce/hot mexican sauce
1/2  bunch salad lettuce chopped.



METHOD
  • Boil the rice and keep aside.
  • Boil the black beans.
  • Now Heat oil in a pan  and fry the onion and capsicum chopped thin and long for about a minute.
  • For guacamole sauce you could either use the ready made sauce available in the market or make fresh at home with avacados.
For preparing gaucamole at home you could use the following ingredients.
1 avacado peeled
1 jalapeno
1/4 onion chopped
1 tsp garlic
salt to taste
1/2 Tbsp lime juice
1/4 bunch cilantro leaves(coriander)

Take all the ingredients and blend in a mixer to a smooth paste. 
  • Now take a bowl.
  • Put rice in it and  add the black beans on top of it. Add some cheese.
  • Then add fried onion and capsicum. add salsa, gaucamole,corn,sour cream and chili garlic sauce.
  • Add some salt and red chili powder.
  • End the toppings with lettuce leaves on top of all.    

5 comments:

  1. burrito bowl looks so tempting & tasty!!!
    superb click...:)

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  2. Wow.....dis lookks yummmy....uuuuummmmmmmm....!!
    Awesome presentation!!!

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  3. it's tasty and healthy.......

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  4. shiba, your burrito bowl looks awesome and worth trying at home. Keep posting such amazing recepies as its mind boggling.

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  5. I just tried it and it turned out to be yummyy! Thanks Shiba x

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