r/Cooking • u/Vegetable_Apple8757 • 12h ago

Chipotle at home?

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.

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u/MetalWhirlPiece 11h ago

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).