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The Bachelor Chef Files, Recipe II: Breakfast Burritos

posted January 16, 2007 - 2:01pm
The Bachelor Chef Files, Recipe II: Breakfast Burritos

Welcome to The Bachelor Files, a post that celebrates frugal, health-concious and delicious meals sure to impress the girl (or guy) in your life. Each recipe is designed to show how to cook a filling meal within your limited budget that is sure to please the person in your life or just yourself)! And hopefully the meals will also be fairly simple and easy to prepare (but I'll warn you ahead of time if they aren't). Today's meal shouldn't be too difficult to pull off, and I'll give several different ways to prepare it so no matter how experienced (or not) you are in the kitchen, there's a style of cooking it that you should be comfortable with.

You will need:

1 medium-sized potato (or frozen o'brian potatoes)
1 small onion
1/4 package of extra-firm tofu
2-4 tablespoons salsa
shredded cheese or shredded vegan cheese
2-4 flour tortillas
butter or margarine
oil
optional: mushrooms, bell peppers, brocolli
also optional: morningstar farms breakfast sausages or bacon

Dice potatoes into small cubes and fry in a small amount of oil or oil/water (in a non-stick pan, add enough water to cover the bottom of the pan and cook until water evaporates, then add a little bit more water and some oil, this will cut down on the amount of oil used). Dice onion and add to potatoes. Dice vegetables into small pieces and add (if using optional vegetables). When potatoes and onions have browned, crumble tofu in and add a teaspoonful of butter or margarine and fry until tofu turns a yellowish brown color. Remove from heat. Lightly heat tortillas on the stove (or microwave for ten seconds if using electric stove). Layer potato and tofu mixture onto tortillas with salsa and then cheese and fold into burritos.

If using o'brien potatoes, they can also be cooked in a toaster oven. The sausages or bacon can also be cooked that way. The tofu, however, does have to be fried in a pan.

Salsa can be store bought or home-made. An easy substitute for store bought salsa is to dice tomato, onion, cilantro and jalapeno and simply toss together.



Comments

tofu...

yes tofu is a hard sell. i've gone to the point of not even telling people and crossing my fingers they aren't allergic to soy. =p (ok not really.) if you like this recipe, check out my upcoming avocado burrito recipe. extremely simple (no frying pan used), cheap and delicious. and no tofu. ^_~

These sound tasty

My brother in law makes great breakfast burritos, I'll have to try your recipe. They sound similar to his, though he's a diehard carnivore and would scoff at using tofu in anything meant for human consumption.

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