Make It Yourself: Chipotle Burrito Bowl
The tiny city I live in finally got its first Chipotle a few months ago. Ever since then I’ve been way into their veggie burrito bowls and fresh ingredients. I am trying to save money and prepare my own, healthy meals so I tried my hand at making my very own Chipotle-esque burrito bowl at home.
This post from Iowa Girl Eats really helped me get started and her recipe for their rice sounds amazing. I kept my brown rice plain because that’s how I like it. Of course her rice recipe would taste much more like the kind at Chipotle.
Take your black beans and sprinkle in a bit of cumin, chili powder, salt, oregano and cayenne pepper. I microwaved these to make things a little easier.
I used a salsa recipe from A Healthy Slice of Life and it turned out wonderfully! I’d always shied away from making my own salsa because it seemed like so much work but it was actually very easy.
I then heated up some green pepper, extra firm tofu and mushrooms along with some cumin and chili powder.
Get the biggest bowl you can find and put your brown rice, veggies, tofu, salsa and guacamole (I used Wholly’s spicy- so good!) and dig in! This was so delicious and really hit the spot.
Do you ever try to recreate meals from restaurants?
I am a huge fan of cumin. Huge.
I never realized how much I love it until here recently. I am now a huge fan as well!
I love to recreate burrito and honestly I think they are really easy to make at home. As a matter of fact, I think, I manage to get the flavors spot on most of the times
They are easy! Do you add lime and cilantro to your rice?
Yep, I do and it tastes really good. You should try it that way too.
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I’ve never cooked with cumin before, but I think I should start. This looked really yummy!
Ooh, it is so good! It’s a really great flavor.
Looks tasty!
It was!
Oh my gosh I’m a chipotle addict! I need to try this because I could save myself lots of moolah!
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I know.. it’s so good but the money really adds up!
Thank you for subscribing! I love your blog as well :]
I often take ideas from restaurant menus and then do my own spin on them. Mmmm, Chpotle
I’ve only recreated things a couple of times. It has to be super good for me to want to go through all that trouble.
this looks so good! if i’m going out to eat, i usually pick something other than moe’s or chipotle, although i LOVE blue coast in market square.
i’m a huge fan of terrible-for-you asian take-out. i LOVE pad thai, and once managed to make some that was almost as good as the restaurant kind. i need to try that again, actually!
Chinese food is my weakness for sure. I’ve tried *so* many times to make something that compares but it ends up tasting horrible every time. You need to make your pad thai and do a blog post about it! :]
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