The beauty of this is that you can use whatever ingredients you want, as long as you follow a few basic tips.
Filling tips:
1. Mince meat, chicken, finely sliced beef, chopped mushrooms, all works.
2. Black beans, kidney beans, corn, whatever you want.
3. Stock cube: beef, chicken, vegetable, mushroom, anything goes.
4. Fresh garlic? Sure, but you can also use garlic granules.
5. For extra crunch, sprinkle some finely diced bellpepper on the meat layer
Basic tips:
1. You need a good pan, and if you have it also a griddle pan.
2. Learn to finely dice onions, it’s a skill you’ll use forever.
3. Learn to deseed a bellpepper, also a skill you’ll use forever.
4. Seasoning is key, but if you’re starting out it’s super okay to use jars/pots of pre-made seasoning, just check that it’s not 80% salt as many are.
My recipe, for ~4-5 big wraps:
Ingredients
- 500 grams beef mince
- 1 large onion, finely diced
- 4 cloves of garlic, roughly chopped
- 1/2 red bellpepper, finely diced
- 1 lime
- 1 can of black beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 batch of guacamole; made with 1 big or 2 small avocado’s and a pre-made packet of guacamole seasoning and some sour cream
- sour cream
- lettuce (I prefer iceberg)
- American cheese slices (or as we call it, cheesen’t)
- 1 beef stock cube
- salt & pepper
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp ground coriander
- 2 tsp chili-seasoning
- a pack of large wraps
(optional: fish sauce & Worcestershiresauce)
Recipe
- Gently fry the onion in a large pan with some oil, on low heat, seasoned with a little bit of salt and pepper
- Once the onion starts to look glossy, add the garlic and fry for another minute or two
- Add the minced meat (or whatever you’re using), season the lot with some salt and pepper
- Turn the heat up to medium high, and keep stirring gently and pushing the meat apart until it’s gone brown
- Turn down the heat again, add the bellpeppers, the beans, and the seasoning including the stock cube (crumbled)
- Let this simmer gently for a few minutes, then season to taste
- If bland, add some more salt and pepper
- If lacking something but salty enough, add some lime juice (1/2 a lime would do)
- If this still doesn’t work, bring out the big boy flavourbombs: 1/2 tsp fish sauce and 1 tsp Worcestershiresauce
- Set this aside to cool a little
- Heat a griddlepan if you have, otherwise just another normal pan
- Prepare your wraps on 2 seperate plates
- Spread a layer of guacamole in the middle of the wraps, in a rectangular shape, leaving 4-5cm of space on the top and bottom of the wrap, and 8+ cm on the sides of the wraps
- Gently smear on some sour cream
- Shred some lettuce on top of the guacamole
- Drop two tablespoons of your onion-meat mixture on top of the quacamole & lettuce
- Cut 1 slice of American Cheese in half, and put the halves lengthwise on the meat mix
- Check this video on how to fold a burrito/wrap: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8j4WVUmDX1I
- Fold your wraps appropriately
- Place wraps seam-side down on the griddle/pan on medium heat
- Gently push down on the wraps to make sure you got maximum pan-exposure (can use a spatula if you don’t want to use your hands)
- Flip every minute until wrap is nice and golden/crunchy
- EAT
(absolutely delicious if you can also find some Tabasco Sriracha, balances it out perfectly)
