Black Bean Breakfast Burritos

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By Becky Krystal

These satisfying burritos are our thought of batch cooking — easy, high-yield and cleanable for customizing. Of course, they're not conscionable for breakfast. Stash them successful the freezer for a speedy meal connected engaged weeknights, too.

The prima component: Smoky, creamy achromatic beans by mode of Deb Perelman's archetypal Smitten Kitchen cookbook. The look primitively called for making the beans successful a dilatory cooker, but we've adapted the look for an electrical unit cooker (i.e. Instant Pot). If you similar the dilatory cooker, navigator the beans connected precocious for 3 to 6 hours. You'll get treble the magnitude you request for 1 batch of burritos, truthful consciousness escaped to frost the beans for different time. Or, usage them each astatine erstwhile for a batch of 12 burritos, doubling the remainder of the ingredients.

You tin besides navigator the beans connected the stove apical utilizing the method from the related look for Joe Yonan's Simple Perfect Pot of Beans (see related recipe). Or, you whitethorn substitute 2 15-ounce cans (about 3 cups) of canned, drained beans.

We've fixed a scope of servings based connected however afloat you similar your burritos. At 6, they're stuffed similar what you mightiness get astatine a fast-casual. If you privation thing much restrained, agelong the filling to marque 8. They'll inactive beryllium satisfying.

We've kept the filling simple. This is simply a large spot to usage store-bought soy chorizo oregon homemade tofu chorizo, though pork oregon beef volition work, arsenic well. Add your prime of extras, specified arsenic salsa, cilantro oregon pickled onions oregon jalapeños. Serve with salsa oregon guacamole.

The cooked achromatic beans tin beryllium refrigerated successful their liquid for up to 5 days oregon frozen for respective months. The assembled burritos tin beryllium refrigerated for 3 days oregon frozen for respective months. Thaw overnight successful the refrigerator oregon successful the microwave connected DEFROST earlier heating and browning successful the skillet.

From Voraciously pb writer Becky Krystal; achromatic legume look adapted from "The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook" by Deb Perelman (Knopf, 2012).

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 6-8

For the achromatic beans

  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1 tablespoonful crushed cumin
  • 1/2 spoon dried oregano
  • 2 teaspoons smoked paprika
  • 1 dried chile pepper, specified arsenic ancho oregon New Mexico
  • 2 tablespoons herb paste
  • 2 teaspoons kosher salt
  • 10 cups water
  • 1 lb dried achromatic beans, rinsed (see headnote)

For the burritos

  • 2 tablespoons rootlike oil, divided, positive much arsenic needed
  • 8 ounces to 9 ounces chorizo (soy, beef oregon pork), casing removed
  • 4 to 6 ample eggs
  • Kosher salt
  • Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
  • 2 cups (8 ounces) grated cheese, specified arsenic capsicum Jack, Monterey jack oregon cheddar
  • Six to 8 10-inch flour tortillas

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 8, utilizing 4 eggs and 8 ounces soy chorizo)

  • Calories

    500

  • Fat

    23 g

  • Saturated Fat

    9 g

  • Carbohydrates

    49 g

  • Sodium

    920 mg

  • Cholesterol

    120 mg

  • Protein

    24 g

  • Fiber

    7 g

  • Sugar

    3 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Voraciously pb writer Becky Krystal; achromatic legume look adapted from "The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook" by Deb Perelman (Knopf, 2012).

Tested by Becky Krystal.

Published May 5, 2020

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Updated March 16, 2026

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