Pork Carnitas Burrito Bowl Recipe
This hearty and delicious pork carnitas burrito bowl recipe has rice, black beans, fried plantains, avocados, and tasty pico de gallo. You will love it!
Ingredients
Rice
- 1 ½ cups white rice raw
- 2 ¼ cups chicken broth
- 1 Tbsp tomato paste
- 2 tsp olive oil
- ⅓ cup onion chopped
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- ¼ tsp coriander ground
Black beans
- 1 15.5 oz can black beans
- ½ tsp oregano ground
- ½ tsp cumin
- ¼ tsp chili powder
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- ½ tsp coriander ground
- ½ tsp Kosher salt
Plantains
- 2 plantains green
- oil for frying
- 1 tsp Kosher salt
Pico de gallo
- 3 Roma tomatoes cored and diced
- ¼ cup red onion diced
- ½ tsp red wine vinegar
- 1 Tbsp lime juice
- ¼ tsp Kosher salt
- 2 Tbsp cilantro chopped
- 1 jalapeno cored, seeded, diced
- 1 dash sugar
Other
- 2 avocados sliced
- 2 cups pork carnitas see recipe
- 2 limes cut into wedges
Instructions
Rice
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Place rice, broth, and tomato paste in a rice cooker. Stir until well mixed. Cook until done.
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In a skillet heat oil on medium, then sauté onions and garlic until translucent. Sprinkle in the coriander, then add the cooked rice and mix thoroughly.
Beans
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In a saucepan place the beans, oregano, cumin, chili powder, garlic powder coriander and salt. Mix thoroughly, and simmer on medium for about 20 minutes.
Pico de gallo
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Place all the ingredients in a glass or ceramic bowl and mix thoroughly.
Pork Carnitas
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See recipe link.
Plantains
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Cut ends of the plantain, and peel.
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Heat oil in a medium size skillet on medium high.
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While the oil heats cut plantains 1" pieces. Fry until they begin to turn golden.
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Remove from oil, and place on a cutting board lined with paper towel. Then smash with the bottom of a measuring cup. They should flatten out, and crack a bit.
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Return to the oil, and fry again until golden. Remove, then place on paper towels to drain and sprinkle with salt.
Avocados
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Peel and slice avocados, and sprinkle with lime juice.
Assembly
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Evenly divide rice, beans, pork carnitas, pico de gallo, avocados and plantain into bowls.
Sprinkle with cilantro.