SWEET SMOKEY BBQ CHICKEN BURRITO WITH PICO DE GALLO AND HABANERO SALSA

Cannot express my love of burritos enough, every mouthful is bursting full of fresh pico de gallo, sweet sticky smokey chicken, hot habanero, cool sour cream, crunchy salad and salsa, sooooo moorish and never the same mouthful twice and then its all over, all to quickly.

(makes 2)
 

INGREDIENTS

FOR THE SWEET SMOKEY BBQ CHICKEN

Left over poached/roasted chicken

200ml tomato ketchup

70g dark brown sugar

1 tsp smoked chipotle paste

Very simple just bring the tomato ketchup up to a simmer and add the sugar stir until melted, add the chipotle paste, then add to the chicken, I like to pull the chicken apart allowing every fibre to soak up the sweet hickory bbq sauce.

Fresh habanero tomato and coriander salsa

INGREDIENTS

4 large tomato's de-seeded and chopped

1 shallot fine diced

1 habanero diced

1 pinch sea salt

1 pinch ground black pepper

1 small bunch coriander chopped

1/2 lemon juiced

Place all the ingredients in a large pestle and mortar, or a blender, the pestle and mortar will give you a much better flavour and texture for your salsa, pound away until you have a saucy consistency, adjust the seasoning to taste using the salt and lemon juice.

ACCOMPANIMENTS

FOR THE PICO DE GALLO

2 tomatoes de-seeded and finely chopped

1 small shallot finely diced

1 small bunch coriander fine chopped

1/4 red or green pepper finely diced

1 pinch sea salt

1 pinch black pepper

1 chilli fine diced

Mix all the fresh crunchy ingredients together and season to taste.

100ml sour cream

1/4 iceberg lettuce fine sliced

FOR THE GUACAMOLE

2 ripe avocados

1 small shallot fine chopped

1 clove garlic

1 tbsp red pepper chopped

1 large tomato de-seeded and chopped

1 pinch salt

1 pinch black pepper

1/4 lemon squeezed

1 tbsp coriander fine chopped optional

Pound all the ingredients together and season to taste, adjust with lemon, salt and pepper.

LOADING THE BURRITO

I like to melt some tex mex cheese and re-fried beans, optional, I love them, on the flour tortilla for a minute or so under the grill, this also softens the tortilla which helps with the folding.  I place some of the crisp salad first then a drizzle of habanero salsa, followed by the smokey sweet bbq chicken, then pico de gallo, then I top with some sour cream and avocado guacamole and often some extra sliced chillies, I don't always add rice to my burrito as my husband does not like the texture so much and I have got used to having a naughty burrito where there is a lot more fresh sharp bbq meaty flavor without the rice!

Enjoy