Spanish rice (or cilantro rice) would be the typical rice accompaniment for the known Mexican favorite dishes like burrito, enchiladas, and quesadillas. I did my own twist by using dirty rice for a Cajun flavor with this beef burrito. It’s good if you can make the dirty rice from scratch but if you’re busy opt for the mixes that are readily available in any grocery stores. Zatarain’s is a good brand to get but the store-brands like Great Value of Wal-Martare good too. The instruction in the box includes adding ground meat to the dirty rice but since I was making a steak burrito, that meat part for the rice was omitted.
INGREDIENTS:
1 large piece of steak (2 or more depending on how many people you’re feeding)
1 lime
pico de gallo (recipe and instructions below)
1 box of dirty rice (Zatarain’s or Great Value)
1 tbsp taco seasoning
shredded cheese
sour cream
salt and pepper
drizzle of olive oil
flour tortillas
Cook the dirty rice according to the box, sans the meat part.
While the dirty rice is cooking which is about 30 minutes or so, slice the steak into strips. Make sure to use a meat cutting board to do this. Put the strips in a bowl, squeeze the lime juice over, then season with salt and pepper. Stir together, cover to marinate. Store in the fridge until ready for cooking.
Time to make the pico de gallo. Use a vegetable cutting board when cutting the ingredients.
PICO DE GALLO
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2 medium tomatoes, chopped
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2 sprigs of scallions, chopped
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a few sprigs of cilantro, chopped
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salt & pepepr
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red pepper flakes (optional)
Combine everything in a bowl, cover then store in thr fridge to chill. You can also make this hours or the night before.
After all that, the dirty rice should be half way done. In another skillet, heat up oil. Add the beef strips to sauté. Stir in the taco seasoning. Cook the beef until tender.
To make it easier to fill the flour tortillas, place dirty rice, and beef strips in separate bowls. Line them up on a table with pico de gallo, shredded cheese, and sour cream, also on their separate bowls. Warm up the flour tortillas in the microwave for about 8 seconds.
By the way, you can add refried beans too if you want. If you have leftover dirty rice and/or pico de gallo, use them up as side dishes for fish the following night.
