Pimp That Snack

Pimped Burrito

Ingredients:
Tortilla: Flour, olive oil, milk, salt
Salsa: Tomatoes, red onions, coriander, lemon juice, orange juice, pepper, olive oil
Kidney beans
Garlic
1kg Beef Mince
Burrito seasoning
Grated cheese
Jumbo Olives
Sour Cream
Avocado
Lettuce

Ingredients on a worktop: Edam block, avocados, a plate of chopped red onion and a pan of spiced beef

Approximate cost: $60 NZD (£28 GBP)

What can one say about a burrito that’s nearly a foot and a half long? It was the best burrito I’ve ever eaten. It was the most burrito I’ve ever eaten. It was fantastic.

Step 1:
The Tortilla: put all the ingredients together. Make an oven sized tortilla. Dry fry this in a clean pan (or as in our case, on a cookie sheet over the stove.)

A huge sheet of tortilla dough rolled out across a foil-covered board

Step 2:
Prepare the beans. We cooked them, then fried and crushed them. Add "healthy" amounts of garlic & olive oil.

Step 3:
Chop the salsa ingredients (excluding the liquids) and combine in a bowl. Make much more than you require, because you will consume approximately 20% of what you make prior to completion of the burrito.

Step 4:
Cook the mince in a pan with the burrito seasoning and plenty of garlic.

Raw beef mince filling a frying pan with a heaped mound of burrito seasoning on top

Step 5:
Assemble ingredients in the tortilla. Ours was too stuffed to stay closed on its own, so we weighted it closed with a pan. Put it in the oven for about five minutes, be careful of any spillage out the ends.

A hand scattering grated cheese over beans and mince laid along the centre of the dough

Chopped tomato salsa and sliced green olives piled over the cheese and mince before rolling

Step 6:
Remove from the oven. Add guacamole, sour cream, lettuce. Gorge yourself.

The rolled burrito on a board, topped with soured cream, guacamole, salsa and olives

The finished burrito cut through the middle, a tape measure laid alongside to show its length

A man and woman pulling delighted faces behind the metre-long burrito on its board

A woman holding up a dinner plate entirely filled by one thick slice of burrito

A defeated-looking diner with napkin tucked in, cleared plate and a bottle of beer

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