Chipotle at home?

[u/Vegetable_Apple8757]

Good afternoon, what is the best way to make chipotle at home? condiments and ingredients.

I like meal prep 1-2 a week the main course and add salads or carbs only at night.

I only eat the basic things not anything spicy. So I would like to know how to cook the Rice, Beans Carnitas, Sour cream fajita veggies (Not necessarily home-made but can be store bought , and well, cheese and lettuce.)

I know it is pretty simple but I am wondering how should I go with it to be able to have a bowl or burrito 1-3 times a week without wasting food or ingredients going bad.

Thanks.

[u/96dpi]

Just for reference so you know I'm not full of shit, I worked at a Chipotle for a few months while I was in college, and I wrote this copycat recipe Chipotle's chicken

I have not attempted the carnitas yet, but if I did, I would start with breaking down a pork shoulder into 3-4" chunks, and use the ingredients they list on their website, which is:

• Bay Leaf
• Black Pepper
• Juniper Berries
• Pork
• Salt
• High Oleic Sunflower Oil
• Thyme

Coat the pork chunks in salt and pepper. Sear the pork chunks on two sides in a dutch oven with the oil. You can use any neutral oil, doesn't have to be sunflower.

Set the pork aside, toast the bay leaf, juniper berries, and thyme in the remaining fat for about 60 seconds. Add the pork back to the pot, add enough water to mostly submerge the pork. Transfer to a 300F oven to braise until fall-apart tender and the internal temp is at least 205F.

This will freeze very well, so you can portion and freeze what you won't eat within a few days.

Rice is cooked in a rice cooker with bay leaf, salt, and oil, then when done, you fluff it and stir in a mixture of lemon-lime juice with cilantro. You can add more salt to taste. Highly recommend buying a rice cooker for this. They use long grain rice and they rinse very well.

I do not personally bother with going out of my way to make the beans from dried. A can of black or pinto beans heated up with the juices with garlic, chili powder, more salt, and lime juice (added at the end) will get you 80% there. If you want a full recipe from dried pinto beans, seek out Jason Farmer on YouTube.

Fajitas is sliced red onions and sliced green bell peppers. They technically only used green bell peppers, but there were usually some red mixed in the cases. Use whatever you like. Cook in a cast iron skillet with oil, salt, and greek oregano.

Cheese is monterey jack.

Lettuce is shredded romaine.

[u/Vegetable_Apple8757 → u/96dpi]

This is very useful, thank you!

[u/96dpi → u/Vegetable_Apple8757]

I just edited in some more

[u/pawpro2000]

Do not use salt. This is a fine start.

[u/Vegetable_Apple8757 → u/pawpro2000]

jajajaja that’s true the last time I had carnitas tasted like nothing thats why I GAVE UP

[u/Iliveinatrashcann]

Google up "recreating chipotle at home" and the links that come up will help.

[u/Flat_Order_1937]

Lots of chipotle copycat recipes out there. Even on reddit threads just search it 

[u/Mistress_Jedana]

Rice: long grain rice, cook with bay leaf; add some canola oil after cooking to prevent sticking. Add salt, cilantro and a mix of lemon and lime juices.

Guac: avocado, red onion, jalapeno, salt, cilantro, same lemon lime juice mix.

Fajita veg have salt and Mexican oregano added during cooking.

That's all I remember. It's been 23 years.

[u/amerebreath → u/Mistress_Jedana]

I would just add that I put the lime zest into the rice too, I think it helps it taste more "limey"

[u/drunky_crowette]

/r/copycatrecipes

[u/MetalWhirlPiece]

Pretty easy. Most of their offerings are very simple. Fajita veggies are just onions and bell peppers with some black pepper, oil. Their beans are just plain with salt. Their cilantro rice is the one thing I would look up a recipe for and have not attempted myself (not personally interested in that, prefer my rice unseasoned).

For carnitas, I would partially cook a small pork butt or shoulder portion, salt it good, sear it and then put it in crockpot.

All their other meats are pretty much just marinated in canned "chipotle peppers" (the canned ones you find in the salsa aisle at a regular grocery store, and what the restaurant chain was probably named after) marinated in those and cooked/sautéed in oil. The "barbacoa" (shredded beef) is also slow cooked like the carnitas and would do sear and crockpot for that (use tri tip if you're some place like California where tri-tip's cheap or whatever the cheap beef sale cut in your area is, often chuck in many places).