Slow Cooker Budget Bean Burritos

Slow cooker burritos made with budget ingredients are a delicious and easy way to feed the family without spending hours in the kitchen!

Folks, I know I always start off my recipe post by telling you just how much I think you'll love that particular recipe, but today's slow cooker budget bean burritos really are something else!

These slow cooker bean burritos are the perfect recipe for feeding the family and letting you get on with other things in the meantime.

Delicious and full of flavour just add all the ingredients into your cooker and let it simmer away resulting in a cheap and easy healthy, vegan meal!

You see not only is this a wonderfully easy and filling family recipe but it doesn't break the bank either!

Instead of chicken or steak which is what American burritos normally consist of, I've opted to use the more simple, traditional Mexican burritos filling made of beans thus saving us all some pennies.

Actually to be honest Mexican burritos do often contain beans (mainly refried beans) and some meat.

But when you make and taste these meat free vegan burritos I think you'll agree that we don't need meat to make a perfect Mexican burritos recipe.

I've used the minimum amount of ingredients in this slow cooker budget bean burritos recipe.

Just enough so that it still maintains its authentic Mexican flavour but also to make sure that as per the title, it's still a "budget" recipe!

To make this slow cooker burrito vegetarian, rather than several different kinds of tins of beans I've used a tin of Mexican style mixed beans.

My local supermarket had just so conveniently happened to start stocking these as a NEW product.

In fact that was what originally give me the idea for this budget recipe. If you can't get a similar tin of Mexican style mixed beans, any other beans like black beans will do as a slow cooker burrito filling.

What I was also trying to figure out recipe wise was what we could have simmering away in my slow cooker whilst we were out and about hiking the hills of the Scottish Southern Uplands.

We recently spent some time there.

And on our return to our accommodation we were greeted with the amazing aroma coming from this slow cooker budget bean burrito bubbling away happily in the cooker.

As our food was already made it meant I didn't have to spend ages in the kitchen making our dinner!

These went down well and I recommend to anyone.

If you don't have a slow cooker then you might want to think about purchasing one (details below!).

Jump to:

• 🥘 Ingredients
• 🔪 How To Make Slow Cooker Burritos
• 🍽 Equipment
• 💭 FAQ's
• 🥗 Other Delicious Vegan Bean Recipes You Might Also Like
• 📋 Slow Cooker Budget Bean Burritos Recipe
• 🧾 Nutrition Label
• ⭐ Rate The Recipe

🥘 Ingredients

• Tinned Chopped Tomatoes
• Salsa Sauce
• Clove Garlic
• Cayenne Pepper
• Cumin Powder
• Paprika
• Salt
• Hot Chilli Powder - you can omit this if you want your burritos less spicy.
• Tinned Mexican Beans - substitute with black beans if you can't get these.
• Brown Rice - dont use white rice as it will become all mushy.
• Frozen Sweetcorn - you could also use tinned sweetcorn.
• Vegetable Stock
• Corn Flour Tortillas - you could also use whole wheat tortillas or different kind of wrap of your choice.

See recipe card for quantities.

🔪 How To Make Slow Cooker Burritos

Detailed instructions are in the recipe card below. But here is a quick step by step guide of how to make these budget slow cooker burritos.

1. Place all ingredients, except the tortillas into the slow cooker. Stir well and cover.
2. Cook on low for 6 - 8 hours or on high for 3 - 4 hours until most of the liquid has been absorbed by the rice.
3. Lay out a tortilla. Place mixture in the centre. Pull the bottom half over to meet the top half. Fold the left side in, then the right side then tightly roll your tortilla until you have perfect beautiful burrito.

🍽 Equipment

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💭 FAQ's

Can I Freeze Bean Burritos?

Yes you can. They're freezer friendly.

You can freeze the cooked slow cooker burrito filling in an airtight container. Then simply defrost it overnight in the fridge. Reheat it in your microwave or on your stove top. Then make up the burritos.

Or you can also freeze the rolled burritos. Again simply defrost them in your fridge overnight and reheat them in your microwave.

🥗 Other Delicious Vegan Bean Recipes You Might Also Like

🧾 Nutrition Label

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