Egg and Black Bean Breakfast Burritos | Elegant Inexpensive

JD

October 08, 2019

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breakfast, brunch, tasty-food-recipe

Breakfast burritos are a supersatisfying (and eminently portable) morning meal. We built our version on hearty black beans and fluffy, tender scrambled eggs that made it filling but not heavy. To freshen things up, we added sweet, bright bell pepper, cilantro, and sliced scallions. Sharp cheddar cheese added richness and bold flavor, and a little cayenne pepper provided just the right amount of balancing heat. To make this an easy one-dish meal, we cooked the bell pepper and beans in the skillet before scrambling the eggs, then folded them into the eggs with the cheese and cilantro. You can substitute whole milk for the halfand-half in this recipe, but the eggs will be less rich and less tender. Serve with hot sauce or salsa, sour cream, and sliced avocado.

Serves: 6
Total Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients

2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 red bell pepper, stemmed, seeded, and chopped into ¼-inch pieces
1 (15-ounce) can black beans, rinsed
3 scallions, sliced thin
⅛ teaspoon cayenne pepper
12 large eggs
¼ cup half-and-half
Salt and pepper
4 ounces sharp cheddar cheese, shredded (1 cup)
3 tablespoons minced fresh cilantro
6 (10-inch) flour tortillas

Cooking Procedure

1. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in 12-inch nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until shimmering. Add bell pepper and cook until softened and beginning to brown, about 5 minutes. Stir in beans, scallions, and cayenne and cook until heated through, about 1 minute; transfer to bowl.
2. Beat eggs, half-and-half, ½ teaspoon salt, and ¼ teaspoon pepper with fork in bowl until thoroughly combined. Wipe out now-empty skillet with paper towels, add remaining 1 tablespoon oil, and return to medium heat. Add egg mixture and cook, using heat-resistant rubber spatula to push mixture back and forth, until curds begin to form. Continue to cook, lifting and folding curds from side to side, until they clump in single mound but are still very moist, about 3 minutes. Off heat, gently fold in bell pepper– bean mixture, cheddar, and cilantro. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
3. Stack tortillas between paper towels on plate and microwave until hot and pliable, 30 to 60 seconds. Divide egg mixture evenly across center of each tortilla, close to bottom edge. Fold sides then bottom of tortilla over filling, pulling back on it firmly to tighten it around filling, then continue to roll tightly into burritos. Serve.

AROMATICS: KITCHEN SUPERSTARS - Chef's Thinking

In this breakfast burrito recipe, the bell pepper, scallions, and cayenne pepper are all aromatics. Aromatics are the flavorful building blocks that form the base of countless savory recipes. They are also often quite fragrant, which is where they get their name. Without aromatics, the flavor of most dishes would be much less deep and complex.
The particular aromatics that are used in a recipe vary from cuisine to cuisine. In French cooking, you will see recipes built on a combination of onion, carrot, and celery  in Chinese cuisine, most recipes have a backbone of garlic, ginger, and scallions. Other common aromatics include chiles, herbs, and spices.
We almost always start a recipe by sautéing aromatics in fat: Because many herbs and spices are fat-soluble, cooking them in fat, or “blooming” them, helps their flavor compounds dissolve more effectively. Doing this at the beginning of a recipe gives these potent ingredients time to really build up flavor, which then gets infused throughout the whole dish.