Meatless Monday: Grilled Bean Burritos

Here is another easy dinner idea for you Meatless Monday this week- Grilled Bean Burritos! We just love the simple pleasure that is a bean burrito. They use only 3 main ingredients: Refried Beans, cheese and great flour tortillas from Trader Joe’s.  Then you can use your imagination (and any leftovers) and jazz them up.

Trader Joe's Bean Burrito Fixings

We love to eat them either plain (just beans and cheese) or with additional ingredients such as diced tomatoes, salsa, sour cream, green chilies or even leftover cooked vegetables.

This week, for this Meatless Monday post, we made the easy, bean and cheese version. But then we grilled the finished product for a minute (in a tiny bit of butter) to crisp up the outside and sorta toast the tortilla- YUM!

What you need:

• Refried beans (Trader Joe’s has pinto or black- use the one you like best)
• Cheese
• Flour Tortiallas
• Optional ingredients: salsa, sour cream, green chilies, green onions
• Butter for browning (if you want)

How to:

1. Warm the refried beans in a small pan. Slice or grate cheese. Heat a non-stick skillet and warm up the tortillas for a few minutes for easy rolling.

2. Place a warm tortilla on a clean, dry cutting board and spoon some  hot beans in the middle. Top with grated cheese and fold in sides. Finally fold up the bottom and then fold down the top, making a nice little burrito- package.

3. Add small nob of butter to non-stick skillet and when melted, add the burrito- flap side down. Cook for a few minutes until it is golden and toasty then toast up the second side. YUM!!

A Toasty Grilled Burro

You can serve these grilled burritos with some spicy vegetables, like the Calabacitas, or with some cool, crunchy coleslaw (that is our favorite way)

We hope you enjoyed this Meatless Monday Menu idea. Let us know what you are cooking on Meatless Monday this week. Leave a comment in the box below