Recipe : Tasty Potato and Ground Beef Burritos

Potato and Ground Beef Burritos.

About Burrito

Burritos are a typical Mexican food. This dish consists of a wheat tortilla filled with various kinds of meat such as beef, chicken or pork. These cooked meats are usually the sole filling, and then rolled in the tortilla. In the United States, the contents of burritos are more varied, such as rice, kidney beans, cabbage, tomatoes, salsa sauce, guacamole, cheese and sour cream --- this causes the size of the burrito to be larger. Wheat tortillas are usually grilled or lightly warmed to make them softer and easier to roll. The word burrito, in Spanish, means "little donkey". This name was probably given because the shape of the ends of the rolled-up wheat tortillas is similar to the ears of a donkey. Or maybe a burrito is similar to the bags that donkeys usually carry in South America.

Potato and Ground Beef Burritos

You can cook Potato and Ground Beef Burritos using 9 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Potato and Ground Beef Burritos

1. You need of Filling.
2. Prepare 1 small of onion.
3. It's 1 1/2 lb of ground beef.
4. Prepare 2 tbsp of olive oil.
5. You need 2 tsp of Montreal seasoning, or teaspoon each of salt and pepper.
6. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of cumin powder.
7. It's 1 large of or two small potatoes.
8. It's 3 of jalapeño slices per burrito, optional.
9. You need 1 packages of of 10-12 flour tortillas.

Potato and Ground Beef Burritos instructions

1. Peel and cut potato into half-inch cubes and set aside..
2. Dice onion..
3. Heat a medium lidded pan on high heat for a few minutes then add in the olive oil to just below smoking point..
4. Add onion and saute a few minutes until it begins to brown..
5. Add ground beef and break up as it browns, meanwhile the Montreal seasoning or salt/pepper should be added at this point..
6. Continue to allow the ground beef to brown without lowering the temperature until the beef is well browned and has just begun to *slightly* caramelize and the liquid has evaporated. Remove from heat and quickly take out all but three tablespoons of the fat..
7. Replace pan to high heat, pushing meat to sides so fat is heating in the middle..
8. In quick succession, stir in first the cumin powder agitating briefly, followed by the diced potatoes stirring first to coat with oil, then mixing with the meat..
9. Reduce heat to very low and cover tightly. Allow to cook, covered, for 5 to 10 minutes, checking and stirring once or twice to prevent burning and to see that the potatoes have finished..
10. Remove from heat when potatoes are tender then taste for salt and pepper, adding some if needed..
11. Heat tortillas in a very hot dry pan. Roll 3-4 tablespoons of filling into each one adding jalapeños as desired..