I’m going to say, “no”. I like beans and rice as a side for tacos, but for some reason, rice in a burrito just feels wrong to me. Opinions?
Its food man. It belongs if you like it, it doesn’t if you don’t. I don’t understand some of these arguments where “the originating culture did it this way so it belongs!” Who cares how people half way across the world make their burritos, fuck culture and tradition. Cooking is art, do what you want and make it how you like. Personally I put rice in because its an easy nutritious filler that doesnt impact taste or texture too bad and which extends the good meats and seasoning and stuff out a couple meals.
See also: pizza, General Tso chicken, Pad Thai
pizza with rice?
I managed a place that had Fried Rice Pizza, and Lo Mein Pizza. They were popular with carb loading athletes. Our most popular pizzas were the General Tso’s Chicken Pizza, and the Crab Rangoon Pizza.
Tried it once. Solid 5/7. Top marks.
A perfect 5/7.
I don’t know how they do it elsewhere but I do hear Italian pizza and American pizza are very different. Haven’t been to Italy to say what they put on it.
Yes and no.
No because most burritos are just meat and cheese, with sauce on top and beans and rice on the side.
Yes, because rice is awesome. It will absorb the sauce, so if you have your tortilla laid out, a bed of rice laid down before you put your meat down will absorb a lot of those juices that would otherwise just drip onto your plate (maybe your shirt). Also, it makes the burrito more filling.
Also no, because I can’t have too many carbs at once. The tortilla is enough. I don’t even do burritos anymore, I do street tacos. I do corn tortillas with cheese, meat, and pico. Rice doesn’t belong anywhere near that. But that’s not burritos, that’s tacos.
I live in a place with a LOT of Mexican folks, and they happen to operate a lot of taco trucks around the area. Muy authentico. They put beans and rice, a massive pile of your meat of choice, onions cilantro and cheese. It’s a burrito the size of a small child, wrapped in a tortilla the size of a small blanket.
If the people whose culture the noble burrito hails from decide to put rice in it, the answer is yes. Rice belongs in burritos. We gringos just need to say gracias when we pick up our order and deal with it.
fuck I miss taco trucks
Yeah, they’re selling you American burritos. They derived from a Mexican dish, but they have as much in common with the original as American pizza does with Italian.
You made all this up. Rice is a popular ingredient in a ton of authentic Mexican food including burritos.
Source: Mexican friends. Going to Mexico. Showing a Mexican friend this post and him replying “what the fuck”
I’m from mexico and yes, rice is a very common in mexican food, but not in burritos, except in american style burritos (which are very good with rice)
The fuck you smoking. You can find burritos with rice all over Mexico
They are literally Mexican people. The burrito is fucking Mexican. Seeth all you like.
I’m not seething, you weirdo. I can get General Tso’s made by a Chinese guy, or a California roll made by a Japanese guy, too. Doesn’t make it authentic national cuisine.
I get what you’re saying and agree a little but it takes like two second to do a web search and see burritos con arroz is a fairly common recipe in Latin America.
Burrito is burrito friend. Fill it with as many ingredients as possible.
Oh yeah. Makes the burrito so much better.
I’d put you in there, just gimme the damn burrito.
Absolutely yes.
Hell. No.
Yep, tastes good.
I think some burritos have entirely too much rice content, but I think a minor rice component is acceptable.
If rice can get wrapped in seaweed (Sushi), it can go in anything.
YOLO!
Yes UNLESS in a breakfast type burrito.
Then it’s potatoes, yeah?
fuck yeah breakfast burritos!
when you can have breakfast in your burrito, you can have burrito anytime!
I understand why it would feel weird having rice with a tortilla. I guess it’s like rice and macaroni. Too many carbs.
HOWEVER, the rice is mixed with a bunch of other stuff so it’s not like you’re just eating rice in a burrito. It’s more like the rice in soup.
I don’t mind it, unless it is just really shit rice (Taco Bell’s rice comes to mind,) but overall I do see it as more of a filler and I’d be perfectly happy without it being in a burrito.
It’s traditional to have it, so to “should?” the answer has to be “yes”. I don’t usually bother when cooking at home, though.
Not traditional in burritos where they were invented, but not a bad addition anyway
Where… do you think burritos were invented, if not Mesoamerica?
Burritos are a recent invention from Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua, where they are usually just made with stews of different types, usually including meat of different types, beans and hot sauces, or milder ones. Vegetables are included sometimes but not always.
In Mexico, south and central america in general they are not that popular except in the northern states, and recently they are being introduced there but usually what they get is an americanized version for american tourists that want to “try local burritos” which aren’t local in the most popular tourist places.
This americanized version is the one that started including rice, I think by influence of other wraps and dishes from all around. To be entirely honest, I like both types of burritos, they are great with and without rice, but rice is not “traditional” at all in burritos.
Besides, in mesoamerica there was no rice, it was introduced from the old world as far as I know.
