Burrito Madness

Feast your eyes on this photo of our homemade vegan burritos. We’ve been binging on them at the homestead. You know how sometimes you crave a certain food and you just go ballistic on it until the craving is satisfied? That’s what’s happening. Last night, we had our third burrito dinner this week.

They’re different burritos each night: night one was canned vegan refried beans; night two was refried beans again but mixed with blanched veggies; and night three was red kidney beans cooked with tomatoes, onions, chili pepper, and garlic.

Each night, we added a variety of crisp, raw veggies and sauces, and our own homemade daikon sprouts. Sauces included spicy taco sauce, vegan ranch dressing, and barbeque sauce.

Variety is the holy grail of award-winning vegan burrito-making. You want to feed the Kapha dosha with something soft and warming. Vata and Pitta need crunch and coolness to balance and put out the fire. Hot, cooked beans rolled in a tortilla with cold, crisp lettuce and other raw veggies and drizzled with a spicy taco sauce and maybe a cool vegan ranch dressing satisfies all of the doshas.

And this is easy fare. Keep a diversity of fresh, chopped veggies in the fridge and plenty of different sauces in the cupboard, and a few cans of organic beans of any kind, plus a package of flour or corn tortillas, and you have all you need for fast and easy, insanely good burritos whenever the craving hits.

Here’s what we keep in the house at all times: large flour tortillas; cans of red kidney beans, white beans, vegan refried beans, and chick peas; lettuce, carrots, onions, garlic, kale, and our own homemade sprouts (we’re into daikon right now – spicy and good). We also regularly bring home other good raw veggies, but those are our basics.

Peruse the sauce isle at the market and stock up. Our fridge is laden with mild and hot taco sauces, buffalo wing sauces, vegan salad dressings, all kinds of barbeque sauces, honey mustard sauces, Indian stewing sauces like tikka masala, peanut, and korma, pesto, satay sauces, tahini sauces, and Thai curry sauces. I like it hot, my husband likes it mild. To have these on hand means you will never have to sit through a boring meal.

Then, just put your big, fat burrito together based on what flavor you’re craving that day. Hit that beauty with whatever sauces you’re feeling at the moment, and eat. Burritos are God’s food.

Keep it delicious, and keep it kind.

Barbie xo