Slow Cooker Burrito Bowls
These vegetarian slow cooker burrito bowls are SO easy to make, no pre-cooking required! Serve hot with your choice of toppings – I like cheese and avocado!
My veggie burrito bowls are still one of the most popular recipes on this blog, even now, 3 years later. Not to blow my own trumpet or anything (except that I totally am), but I still get pretty regular comments about how much people enjoy the recipe. That’s how I know you guys are my soul mates – anything with spicy black beans, covered in melted cheese, you love about as much as I do.
I’m hoping that you’re also as lazy as I am (read: pretty damn lazy), because I thought it was time to revamp my old burrito bowl recipe into a version that’s even easier, even quicker to prepare, and just as delicious (the italics make it extra true). That’s right, I bring you slow cooker burrito bowls! Huzzah!
The basic process is this:
1. Put some ingredients in the slow cooker. You don’t need to pre-cook anything, because that would be rubbish. Mix it around a bit.
2. Turn it on (this really does need to be a step all on its own, otherwise this list of processes would just be far too short).
3. Wait for three hours. Take a bath or drink a bottle of wine or something.
4. Top the burrito bowls with grated cheese, avocado, sour cream, or whatever else tickles your fancy (this is the fun bit).
5. Eat (…okay, maybe this is the fun bit).
See? Really couldn’t be any easier. You’ve got your beans, your veggies, your rice – all cooked together in one big yummy mix. Feel free to swap around the veggies depending on what you have in the fridge, add a bit more hot sauce if you like things spicy, use different spices to put your own spin on it. The slow cooker burrito bowl is your oyster.
I kept my toppings pretty simple – some grated cheddar, fresh coriander (that’s cilantro, and it’s a must in my book), a dollop of sour cream, and some sliced avocado. You can add whatever toppings you fancy though, of course. Mexican food (even knock-off, untraditional Mexican food like this) has so many options when it comes to toppings, so go crazy. Salsa, guacamole, jalapeños, spring onions, a squeeze of lime… toppings for daaaays.
What would you pile up on top of your slow cooker burrito bowl?
Slow Cooker Burrito Bowls
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Ingredients
- 1 onion, diced or thinly sliced
- 1 bell pepper (I used yellow), diced
- 1 mild red chilli, finely chopped
- 400 g tin black beans, drained (240g, or ~ 1 1/4 cups, when drained)
- 215 g uncooked brown rice (~ 1 cup)
- 400 g tin chopped tomatoes (~ 1 1/2 cups)
- 150 ml water (~ 1/2 cup)
- 1 tbsp chipotle hot sauce (or other favourite hot sauce)
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 1/2 tsp ground cumin
- Salt
- Black pepper
- To serve, your choice of: grated cheese, fresh coriander (cilantro), chopped spring onions, sliced avocado, sour cream, guacamole, etc.
Instructions
- Add all the burrito bowl ingredients (not toppings) to a slow cooker – mine is 4.7 litres / 4 quarts. Mix well.
- Cook on low for around 3 hours, or until the rice is cooked *see note below*.
- Serve hot with your choice of toppings.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information is approximate, and will depend on your exact ingredients. Please calculate your own nutritional values if you require accuracy for health reasons.
Love a Mexican-style dinner made in the slow cooker? You’ll love my slow cooker enchilada chilli:
This sounds like my perfect comfort food – oh boy. It may be spring, but I am so going to make this. Only trouble is, I have to root out my slow cooker from the back of the cupboard.
My slow cooker stays on the counter because I use it so often :) I don’t have much counter space but it’s worth it!
Oooh this looks delicious! I need to do more with our slow cooker, hardly use it nowadays!
Oh God Becca, I LOVE YOU! This is just what I need to make now I am finally home from all my travelling about, I’m shattered, this is perfect!
Definitely – perfect dinner for a tired night! Enjoy! :)
In India, I have no access to slow cookers. Will, however, try to make it the regular way. I am coming back here again
Try this one instead :) https://www.amuse-your-bouche.com/veggie-burrito-bowls
Im literally sat here licking my lips, the added avocado on the side sells it for me entirely x
Avocado always takes a recipe up a notch doesn’t it ;)
I really need to start using my slow cooker more and this looks like a damn yummy excuse to x
Definitely, I use mine all the time! They’re so versatile if you use your imagination :)
I always plan on making recipes I lust after on peoples blogs but I AM MAKING these. I slow cook all the time ..love a good lazy meal. This ticks all my boxes.
Yay! Report back :D
Well, I can see why it’s a favorite! I pretty much want a huge plate of that right now! Anything with beans and a little spice is just fine by me!
Same here, can’t go wrong with anything Mexican-style :D
Great idea Becca… i’m going to have a whirl at this over the weekend as I reckon my husband would absolutely love it!
Ooh let me know how you get on if you give it a try :)
anything that is Mexican and cooked in a slow cooker makes me very happy. This couldn’t be any simpler!
I thought you’d like this one! ;)