I'm Lazy Chicken and Rice Burrito

I'm lazy. I imagine you can be too. Thus I would like to show you how lazy I am with my cooking. Behold the easy way to make chicken and rice burritos.

Ingredients:

1 cup of Salsa

1 cup Brown Rice (I recommend brown since it takes longer to cook)

1 1/2 cup water

Chicken meat (it can be frozen)

4-6 Flour Tortillas, burrito size

Tools:

1 cup measuring cup

1 pot with lid

Spoon (or something to get the food out with)

Working stovetop (or hotplate)

I strongly recommend washing your brown rice first. The general rule of thumb for brown rice is 1 cup of rice to 2 cups of water. Since we're going to add something juicy like salsa, use 1 1/2 cups of water to 1 3/4 cup of water depending on how juicy your chicken and salsa is.

Put the chicken breasts directly into the pot.

NOTE: Feel free to substitute the chicken for black beans, just make sure you rinse off the beans before putting them in.

Dump in your 1 cup of salsa. This isn't a hard and fast measurement, but if you have your measuring cup out from the rice, it is helpful.

If you've never done rice before let me be the first to say, it's easy. First put the burner on high. Wait for the water to start to boil. Put a lid on the pot. Turn the heat down to a simmer. Set a timer for 45 minutes. Go do something more important.

NOTE: How do you know that your rice is simmering? Come back after about ten minutes or so and see if there is still steam coming up from the side, not a lot of steam, but some. If there's no steam turn the heat up a notch. If there is too much steam, turn it down a notch.

It's not quite done yet. After 45 minutes take the pot off the burner (make sure to turn the burner off since we're done with it). This is the time when you use, whatever you're using to get the food out with, and mix the food up, and break up the chicken breast. Usually you'd want to fluff the rice, but in this case you're fluffing the rice, mixing in the salsa, and ripping apart the chicken. If you used chicken with bones, this is the time to take the bones out. Put the lid back on the pot, and give it another 5 minutes.

Get some of the food onto the burrito. Wrap up the burrito with the right-bottom-left-roll approach. Eat your food.

So Why?

Diner always seems to be a last minute idea for me, and thus I usually have frozen or dried food on hand. I also have better things to do than spend so much time in the kitchen, and this is a let it cook while I do other things, kind of dish. It is one pot, so no real extensive clean up. This makes more food than you might think, and is great fore lunch.