Crispy beef and cheese burritos with quick sauce

Name: Crispy beef and cheese burritos with quick sauce
Prep time: 8 min
Total time: 18 min
Yield: 2 servings
Ingredients: 4 Old El Paso beef & cheese seasoned beef crispy burritos; 2 tablespoons oil; to taste salt; to taste pepper; 1/2 cup sour cream; 1 lime

These frozen burritos crisp in the pan until the tortilla shatters under your fork, while a quick sauce mellows and stretches the filling. You get dinner on the table in under twenty minutes with almost no effort, which is the point on nights like this.

Serves 2. 18 minutes, 8 at the stove.

About 680 calories a serving, 39 g protein, 8 g carbohydrate, 55 g fat. From USDA figures for 100% of the ingredients; amounts are the recipe's.

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1/2 cup sour cream
1 lime

From your shelf

4 Old El Paso beef & cheese seasoned beef crispy burritos

Staples

2 tablespoons oil
to taste salt
to taste pepper

Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat until it shimmers. Place 4 burritos seam-side down in the pan and let them cook without moving until the bottoms turn deep golden, about 3 minutes, then turn and cook the other side for another 2 minutes until crispy all over.
While the burritos cook, stir 1/2 cup sour cream with a big pinch of salt and pepper in a small bowl and set it aside.
Transfer the crisped burritos to two plates and squeeze 1 lime over the sour cream sauce, stirring well. Serve the sauce alongside or spooned over the burritos.

Note Swap sour cream for Greek yogurt if you have it. Leftovers keep covered in the fridge for three days; reheat in a dry skillet to re-crisp them. Serve with rice and a simple salad, or let the burritos stand alone with extra lime wedges.

On the label

FILLING: COOKED SEASONED GROUND BEEF CRUMBLES (BEEF, SALT, FLAVORING, CARAMEL COLOR), PASTEURIZED PROCESS CHEDDAR CHEESE (CHEESE [PASTEURIZED CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES], WATER, CREAM, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, SALT, EXTRACTS OF ANNATTO, PAPRIKA, APOCAROTENAL, BETA CAROTENE [FOR COLOR]), ENCHILADA SAUCE (RED CHILES, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, DEHYDRATED CALIFORNIA CHILE PODS, SOYBEAN OIL, SALT, DISTILLED VINEGAR, DEHYDRATED PASILLA PODS, GARLIC, SPICE), ONION, RED BELL PEPPERS, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: WATER, CORN AND/OR SOYBEAN OIL, CORN STARCH, SEASONING (SPICES, ONION, SALT, GARLIC, SUGAR, DEXTROSE, CITRIC ACID, PAPRIKA, CANOLA OIL, NATURAL FLAVORS), EGG WHITE POWDER, METHYLCELLULOSE, XANTHAN GUM, GUAR GUM, CHOPPED GARLIC, SEASONING (NATURAL FLAVOR, TORULA YEAST, SOYBEAN, WHEAT, MALTODEXTRIN), SPICES. FLOUR TORTILLA: ENRICHED BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), WATER, VEGETABLE OIL SHORTENING (INTERESTERIFIED AND HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OILS), SUGAR, SALT, BAKING SODA, SODIUM ALUMINUM SULFATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE, FUMARIC ACID, CALCIUM PROPIONATE, SORBIC ACID (TO MAINTAIN FRESHNESS).

Old El Paso, frozen dinners & entrees, serving 99 GRM, package 14 oz/396 g. Ingredients as printed on the label.

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