Black Bean and Pork Carnitas Burritos

I love burritos, because I am a person with a tongue. They're kind of intimidating to make, just because they involve so many disparate cooked ingredients.

Seeing as I am lazy, I decided to cook a huge batch of burritos. Such a huge batch, in fact, that after making two dozen burritos for the freezer, and giving my family of five dinner, I still had enough for another five or six burritos. It was burritomania.

Fortunately the kids liked it enough to ask for burrito bowls in their lunches the next day! There were seven main parts to my burrito. Why not more? Because when you make freezer burritos, they have to be fairly dry. That means no sour cream, no guacamole (it doesn't freeze well anyway), and not much salsa. That's okay, though! You can always add those after the fact.

Throw your burrito into your lunch bag, toss in a few single servings of guacamole, salsa, and sour cream, and you're off!

I really did want to focus on reliably freezing. You can try adding them before freezing, but I can't guarantee it'll work as well.

Black Bean and Pork Carnitas Freezer Burritos

This recipe is split into seven ingredients in seven different bowls/jars/cans.

Ingredients 1-4: the easy ones

Refried beans (I made 20 burritos with one can)
Black beans (1 can was enough)
Grated Mexican blend cheese (I used half a large bag of shredded cheese)
Salsa (1 small jar)

Ingredient 5: Veggies!

3 onions, diced
4 red peppers, diced
1 tbsp canola oil
1 tsp salt

Saute until awesome.

Ingredient 6: Rice rice rice!

3 cups white rice
6 cups chicken broth
1 tbsp chili powder
2 tsp garlic powder
2 tsp onion powder
2 tsp salt

Ingredient 7: Carnitas 2: Pork Boogaloo

Recipetin Eats' awesome pulled pork recipe!

Take some large tortillas and wrap it all up (I spread the refried beans on the tortilla to protect it from becoming wet, and to give it some creaminess!). Roll the burritos into parchment paper, and then roll it into tinfoil.

I added pickled jalapenos to some of my burritos, and just marked them with a Sharpie so I knew the difference.

Bam! Burritos.

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