Rio Grande Beef Burritos

"From Bon Appetit's 50th Anniversary Issue. I used about half the amount of cream (substituting half and half) and half the cheese for the sauce."
 
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Ready In:
35mins
Ingredients:
12
Serves:
2
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ingredients

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directions

  • Preheat oven to 450°F.
  • Grease 9-inch square baking pan.
  • Rub both sides of steak with garlic and cumin, then with 1 1/2 teaspoons oil and lime juice. Let stand while preparing peppers.
  • Heat 1 tablespoon oil in heavy medium skillet over medium-high heat.
  • Add onion and cook until beginning to brown, stirring frequently, about 6 minutes.
  • Add chiles and peppers and stir until heated through.
  • Add cream, then 3/4 cup cheese and stir until mixture thickens, about 1 minute.
  • Add oregano. Season with salt and pepper.
  • Heat 1 tablespoon oil in heavy large skillet over high heat.
  • Season steak with salt and pepper. Cook until brown, about 1 1/2 minutes per side for very rare.
  • Transfer to work surface. Halve across width, then cut against grain into thin slices.
  • Hold 1 tortilla over gas burner on low or place on electric burner on low until heated through, about 15 seconds per side. Place tortilla on work surface. Spoon 1/4 cup pepper mixture down center of tortilla. Top with 1/4 of meat. Roll up tortilla, enclosing filling.
  • Arrange in baking pan, seam side down. Repeat with remaining tortillas, 3/4 cup pepper mixture, and remaining meat.
  • Spoon remaining pepper mixture over tortillas.
  • Sprinkle with 1/2 cup cheese.
  • Bake uncovered until cheese melts, 5 to 10 minutes.

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Reviews

  1. I purchased 2 good strip steaks for the burritos. Used the suggested cumin, olive oil and garlic rub w/ the juice of 1 lime, then let the steaks marinate for 60-90 mins. My husband grilled them to med-rare. LOVED the flavors. I made the sauce as suggested. It was pretty good but I guess I would have prefer no sauce and just sauteed veggies. (would that make it a fajita?) I added fresh cilantro as a topping, yum. I decided not to bake them cuz the natives were getting restless. I think that warming the tortillas in a dry skillet worked out well, although I realize baking them clearly would have produced a different result.
     
  2. I've been making these burritos since I first came across them in the Bon Appetit January 1987 issue in the The Weekday Cook section. They've always been well-received. This recipe is missing a tablespoon of olive oil in the ingredients list: it should read "3 1/2 tablespoons olive oil". Also, this recipe is duplicated in recipe #371032. I didn't like the latter's rendition because it encourages you to choose corn tortillas over flour tortillas, and I think that's just <i>wrong</i> for burritos! Thanks bob3039, for doing a good job of posting one of my favorite burrito recipes -- just fix the olive oil amount and I'll be all set! :)
     
  3. This is very good. Even my picky brother-in-law liked it! Next time I'll make double the sauce, as there wasn't enough to put over the top. Thanks!!
     
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