Pinterest helped me make Chipotle at home!

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copycat Chipotle pin

Chipotle is by far my favorite fast-food/to-go restaurant, but it is kind of pricey and pretty high in sodium. So I decided to try and recreate my favorite Chipotle burrito at home to hopefully make it healthier and taste close to the real thing. My first stop in this plan was Pinterest. I found a pretty great webpage that had copycat recipes for all of the components I wanted.

homemade Chipotle chicken burrito bowls
homemade Chipotle chicken burrito bowls

The chicken copycat recipe looked too complicated for me so I just cooked mine on my George Foreman grill. I also bought my guacamole in 100 calorie packs and used canned (no salt added) black beans. I don’t like cilantro and rice has always seemed like an unnecessary filler, so I skipped the cilantro lime rice.

I did use the recipe for corn salsa and it was very good! Corn salsa is my favorite and it is surprisingly super simple to make.

FOODNOTES: All in all, my homemade Chipotle burrito bowls were nothing like the actual Chipotle bowls, but they were very good! They were also only 430 calories compared to the real Chipotle bowls, which hover around or over 600 calories. I definitely plan to make this a regular addition to my recipe rotation!

What is your perfect Chipotle burrito?

My first Chipotle burrito was in college. I had no idea what to get so I got what my friend got. A chicken burrito with black beans, white rice, hot salsa, cheese and lettuce. It was good but I’ve fine-tuned my perfect burrito over the years (and now it’s not even a burrito! It’s a burrito bowl!).

The best additions to my perfect Chipotle burrito was fajita and their new brown rice! I also put chicken, pico, corn salsa, cheese, sour cream, guacamole and lettuce in my burrito bowl! If I eat at Chipotle I put the green jalapeno Tabasco sauce on it for a kick!

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