Zoom in. It has grains.
In honor of this thread, I just got a burrito. Beans and rice and POTATO (sven) and lettuce and tomato, all in there.
This thread inspired me to visit El Chico. They have a build your own burrito. You tell them what you want on it. Yes, I did include black beans and rice, refried beans, fajita beef, lettuce, cheddar cheese, monterey jack and sour cream.
Best burrito I’ve had in several years.
Well, I’m not eating wheat (hives) and burritos need flour tortillas, so I made nachos instead. So good. And NO RICE.
Maybe I linked to the wrong El Famous, but here’s their menu. No rice on burritos. I’ve eaten there dozens of times.
Rice and black beans and if they are fresh you can skip the filling; I like the combination enough on its own.
The kind I get is cooked in the red enchilada sauce. Though I’m embarrassed how long it took me to figure that out. Somehow, when I taste it on rice, it tastes different.
Actually, no, that original link was correct. I don’t see any rice on that burrito, just cheese. And here’s the menu from the original web page I linked to. No rice.
Pity. It would be better with rice.
I’d prefer neither rice nor beans. Just the filling (chicken, pork, steak), salsa, cheese, etc.
If we must, seasoned and/or refried beans only, no rice.
Back when I was vegetarian, I worked at Coconuts’ Records across the street from a Taco Hell. It was the local go-to place for lunch (quick, easy, & affordable for a college student). Young and broke themselves, they’d charge me for an “upgraded” bean burrito but make a burrito supreme without meat. Saved almost a buck. [/trip down memory lane]
Generally no beans no rice.
Just meat n cheese n hot.
They tend to use too much filler and not enough flavor.
Not partial to 7 layer Gooritos.
I’ve made em at home with what leftovers I had, like beans and or rice.
If you go veggie it’s the rice that makes the burrito, though the beans help too. White rice has a high profit margin but if it’s mixed with lime & coriander and a good salsa (of your choice) it has a great savoury & citrus taste. Bad burrito places typically don’t bother with the lime & coriander as it’s too labour intensive and they just assume everyone will be having meat which hides the blandness of the rice.
I find it amusing to watch all you dopers rage against rice for being inauthentic. For me I can’t imagine anything being less authenticly mexican than grated cheddar cheese & sour cream. Only a pale faced protestant would come up with something so crude. I know Mexico is in the top 5 obese nations in the world, but that’s now that they’ve been exposed to the old world and it’s eating habits. But the burritto as I described at the top, I can just about imagine an Aztec eating.
shrug Their menu mentions no rice in the burritos:
FWIW, I’ve tried on several occasions, have graphed my success, have conducted double-blind studies of the phenomenon, and can state with a very high level of confidence that I am unable to give a shit about whether food is authentic. I only care about whether it’s tasty.
Thus my love for taking spicy Indian leftovers and eating it on a Bojangles biscuit. Thus my love of burritos with pulled pork, black beans, and Carolina vinegar sauce. Thus my disdain for rice in burritos.
I’ll go with rice, but love beans also, especially black beans. Of course both along with other fillings. But if I had to choose than rice.
Washed down with an RC cola.
I brought home a couple of burritos from a taco truck Saturday. They had rice in them.
I wish I could have tasted the meat.
Holy crap, that sounds amazing. You are a genius.
They should photograph one of their own burritos for the site, then.
I still think its cheese.