Greedy Recipe! Warm ‘n Tasty Bella Burrito

Sharpen the claws of your teeth and prepare your for chewing jaws for action. I fed this Warm Bella Burrito with its fiesta of fresh ingredients to my stomachs, and now I just gotta share it with you, too.

INGREDIENTS (serves 6 people, measurements are approximate)

warm Mission Tortillas2 packages baby Portobello mushrooms (sliced & sauteed)1.5 cups cooked brown rice1 mashed avocado1.5 cups shredded pepper jack cheese1.5 cups black beans (warmed)1.5 cups homemade salsa fresca (scroll down for the recipe)little bit of salsa verde (optional)

DIRECTIONS: Prepare all individual ingredients and then build your burrito. Just wrap this baby up and begin to fro down. This is one of those recipes that you really can’t mess up. (Not unless you pack too much food on the tortilla, and then the whole damn thing breaks apart.)

Optionally, you can add cooked, diced chicken to your burrito as well. That’s what I had to do for the family because they wouldn’t stop whining unless I added meat to theirs.

Homemade Salsa Fresca (Pico de Gallo): Ingredients

2 tomatoes1 small onion2 scallionslittle bit of chopped Cilantro1/2 Jalapeno Pepper

Salsa Directions: Just slice, dice and mix it all up. Then add to your burrito. Greedy Kid #1 made the salsa fresca all by herself (give her some hand claps, everybody!). She did a dang good job.

There were enough prepped burrito ingredients leftover for me to pack tomorrow’s lunch. Make sure you’re thinking ahead and pre-planning your meals for optimal fat melting results! Have a great day, everybody. XO

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Mission Plus 96 % Fat Free Burrito Tortillas

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I normally seek out whole-wheat bread products, and tortillas are no exception. However, I've never been able to locate burrito-sized whole-wheat tortillas. My local grocery store does, however, stock Mission 96% Fat Free Large/Burrito Tortillas, which boasts Omega-3 fatty acids from added flaxseed. While not necessarily as healthy as whole-wheat I figured they'd be my best and most readily-available choice.

NUTRITION FACTS
Serving Size: 1 tortilla (67 grams)
Calories: 180
Total Fat: 2.5 grams, 4%
Saturated Fat: 0.5 grams, 3%
Sodium: 450, 19%
Carbohydrates: 35 grams
Fiber: 5 grams, 20%
Sugars: 2 grams
Protein: 5 grams

I wanted to get a good taste of tortilla before I added other ingredients, so I heated a tortilla in a skillet on my stove-top, and ate it simply with a little butter spread on it. The tortillas are a bit doughy, a little sweet, and pretty good - not necessarily restaurant quality, but pretty good for store-bought. They're equally good made into a wrap, burrito, or quesadilla. I personally mixed drained low-sodium black beans with some reduced-fat Colby jack and a chopped chipotle in adobo. A little sour cream and guacamole on top - Yum!

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Each tortilla provides 180 calories, 2.5 grams of total fat, 0.5 grams of which is saturated, 19% of the DV for sodium (450 mg), 5 grams of fiber (20% of the DV), 2 grams of sugars and 5 grams of protein. I have no idea why the sodium is so high - there's soups available with less soup per serving!

The ingredients list starts with enriched bleached wheat flour - but all natural it's not and partially hydrogenated oil makes an appearance (although not enough for there to be trans fat on the label). A package of 8 Mission Plus 96 % Fat Free Burrito Tortillas cost me $2.19, which is a very reasonable price for the amount you're getting.

I enjoyed these quite a bit, but the presence of hydrogenated oil makes me think twice. I'll be trying to find an alternative. Any recommendations?

{Website: Mission Tortillas}

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