November 7, 2010: Mix 'N' Stand Upwards For Burritos

After reading gushing comments nearly Viva Vegan all over Twitter past times the likes of Mandee as well as Zuckerbaby, Cindy as well as I decided it was fourth dimension to add together but about other recipe majority to our pile. Its kickoff undertaking was to supply us alongside but about ideas for a sun dinner alongside Cindy's aunt. Just flicking through Viva Vegan was an overwhelming sense - in that place are therefore many amazing-sounding recipes inwards it that choosing what to brand became a long as well as frustrating process. We ended upward doing a chip of ad-libbing as well as a chip of recipe following, as well as coming upward alongside these burritos - filled alongside a mix of refried beans, spicy corn as well as hominy salad, greens as well as avocado. They were excellent, resulting inwards a bout of over-eating from me - there's something nearly beans as well as avocado that switches off my restraint.



Spicy corn as well as hominy salad 
(dressing inspired past times the creamy ancho chile dressing from Viva Vegan)

2 cobs corn
400g tin hominy, drained as well as rinsed
1 canned chipotle (chopped finely) as well as 1 tablespoon of the accompanying adobo sauce
3/4 loving cup vegan mayonnaise
2 tablespoons lime juice

Shuck the corn cobs as well as roast them whole over a hot fry-pan, turning every five or 10 minutes - you lot desire the kernels to start blackening on the outside. Cool as well as and therefore cutting the kernels off the cob.

Make the dressing past times combining the chipotle, adobo sauce, mayo as well as lime juice.

Combine the roasted corn, the hominy as well as nearly one-half the dressing (the residuum is bully every bit sauce on almost anything).



Refried beans 
(based on the home-style refried beans from Viva Vegan)

2 x 400g cans cherry-red kidney beans, drained as well as rinsed
five cloves of garlic, minced
1 dark-brown onion, diced finely
2 jalapeno peppers, seeded as well as chopped finely (we constitute jalepenos at Safeway, which was surprising to me)
1 teaspoon cumin powder
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1/2 teaspoon chilli powder
three bay leaves (less if yours aren't ii years former as well as variety of flavourless)
tabular array salt as well as pepper
2-3 cups of water
three tablespoons olive oil

Heat the fossil oil inwards a frying pan (preferably non a non-stick one, you're going to hold out mashing straight inwards the pan) as well as laid the garlic, onion as well as chillies for nearly 10 minutes, until everything is overnice as well as soft.

Add the cumin, oregano as well as chilli pulverization as well as stir through.

Add the beans, bay leaves as well as 2 cups of the water, stirring everything together. Bring to the boil as well as and therefore simmer for nearly xx minutes, until most of the liquid is absorbed - you lot desire to cease upward alongside a centimetre or therefore of H2O left.

Fish out the bay leaves as well as larn rid of them, earlier mashing the beany mix alongside a Irish Gaelic patato masher - attempt to larn them fairly smooth. Stir as well as laid for but about other five or 10 minutes, adding to a greater extent than H2O every bit things dry out out.

Serve on warm tortillas, alongside a a few tablespoons of the corn as well as hominy salad, but about smushed avocado (with a dash of lime juice as well as tabasco stirred through it) as well as but about shredded lettuce.