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My take on the current bbq rotisserie chicken in a bag dinner is to transform a rotisserie chicken into delicious San Francisco Mission style burritos! Just 15 minutes prep will make 8 large, generously filled burritos adding rice, vegetables and seasonings inspired by the famous Mission burrito. Perfect for a hungry family!

About This BBQ Chicken Mission Style Burrito

The current BBQ chicken in a bag trend uses a rotisserie chicken and adding rice and other ingredients to making a meal and shaking it up in a bag. My riff on this trend turns a barbecue chicken into 8 Mission style chicken burritos in just 15 minutes prep!

If you've ever visited San Francisco's Mission district you've probably tried Mission burritos. These wildly tasty, enormous burritos are a San Franciscan or American take on Mexican burritos made with jumbo tortillas filled with meat, rice, avocado and beans and then wrapped in foil. It's so delicious and great for a meal as it is filling. I can usually only finish half of one but I try to eat more because it is so damn tasty! You know when your tongue wants more but your stomach is telling you that you're full?

The best thing is that we can make our own Mission style burritos using one rotisserie chicken. Even better, one whole rotisserie chicken makes 8 large, very packed burritos so it's great for a crowd or to feed hungry hordes! If you have hungry teenagers, this recipe is for you.

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Ingredients For BBQ Chicken Mission Style Burrito

BBQ or rotisserie chicken - Just a good old chicken from the supermarket!

Tomato and Basil rice pouch - You can also use plain rice or cook the rice yourself. You just need 250g/8.8ozs of cooked rice.

Tomatoes - Fresh tomatoes

Red onion - I prefer using red onion when eating onions raw.

Avocadoes - Make sure avocadoes are ripe as you'll be mashing them up.

Refried beans - Tinned refried beans are perfect here.

Garlic dip - Aka toum. Can be found in the fresh dip aisle at the supermarket and is a fluffy, creamy white garlicky dip.

Cheese - Use grated tasty, cheddar or Monterrey Jack cheeses.

Taco seasoning mix - I like using the Mingle taco seasoning mix as it doesn't contain flour. One packet is more than enough.

Coriander leaves - Optional but adds great flavour.

Lime juice - Fresh or bottled lime juice works here.

Tajin seasoning - A delicious Mexican lime, chilli and salt seasoning powder. Can be found in the spice aisle or Mexican food aisle of the supermarket. Tajin contains salt so you may not need to add salt.

Tortillas - We want Jumbo flour tortillas measuring around 25cm/9.8inches in diameter. I always find tortillas hard to buy online as they never really give you the measurements but look for packs with 6 tortillas weighing 450g/1lb. If you want to make tortillas from scratch I've got a tortilla recipe here.

Tips For Making BBQ Chicken Mission Style Burrito

1 - I use food prep gloves to remove the meat from the chicken as it can be very hot and greasy. Make sure to sort through the chicken for bones after you've pulled the meat off as little bones or white bones can find their way into the mix.

2 - I include both the skin and meat of the chicken and one bbq chicken gives around 800g of meat and skin stripped from the carcass. You can omit the skin if you like (you'll just get less mix to fill the burrito) but it is quite quick to strip a chicken as the meat usually falls off the bone easily. I don't add the stuffing as it would make it less Mission burrito tasting but you do you!

3 - You need jumbo tortillas for these. The largest you can find (see ingredient note above). They also need to be supple so they can wrap around the filling. In SF they usually steam the tortillas to make them pliable and then wrap them.

4 - I also like toasting the burrito in the pan. This does take an extra 6 minutes (2 minutes on low medium heat on each side) but this melts the cheese nicely.

5 - Mix this in a bowl or shake it in the bag, it's up to you! A whole chicken is a bit large to shake in the bag so I usually mix it in an extra large bowl.

6 - This recipe can easily be halved. If you halve the chicken cut it halfway down the centre so that you get both white and dark meat.

7 - Mission style burritos are soft in texture. Add some crushed doritos or crispy onions if you want to add crunch to your burrito.

Looking for a plant based burritos? Try these black bean burritos next!

BBQ Chicken Mission Style Burrito Recipe

An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott

Recipe Overview

Preparation time: 15 minutes

Cooking time: 16 minutes

Makes: 8 large burritos

Ingredients Needed

• 1 BBQ or rotisserie chicken (approx 800g/1.7lbs stripped skin/meat)
• 250g/8.8oz Tomato and Basil rice pouch
• 2 large tomatoes (around 440g/1lb total)
• 200g/7.2ozs red onion, peeled (around 1 large)
• 2 avocadoes, ripe
• 400g/14oz tin refried pinto beans
• 200g/7ozs grated cheese (tasty, cheddar, Monterrey Jack)
• 150g/5oz garlic dip
• 30g/1oz packet taco seasoning mix
• 3 tablespoons coriander leaves, finely chopped
• 1 tablespoon lime juice
• 3 teaspoons Tajin seasoning or to taste
• 8 Jumbo tortillas
• 2 teaspoons oil for frying

Step-By-Step Instructions

Step 1 CHOP - Remove the meat and skin from the bbq chicken using food prep gloved hands. Chop the meat up roughly. Place in an extra large bowl. Heat up the pouch of rice in microwave. Remove calyx from tomatoes, dice tomatoes and season with salt and pepper. Dice the red onion. Cut avocado in half, remove seed and dice avocado flesh.

Step 2 MIX - Add the tomato, onion and avocado to the chopped chicken along with the refried beans, grated cheese, garlic dip, taco seasoning mix, coriander,lime juice and season with Tajin seasoning. Mix well and taste for seasoning. Tajin contains salt so you may not need to add extra salt.

Step 3 WRAP - Soften the tortillas either by microwaving them briefly for 10 seconds just to make them more pliable. Divide the mixture among the tortillas. Wrap up from the sides and then roll up into a fat log shape.

Step 4 HEAT - Heat a frying pan on medium heat and drizzle in a little bit of oil and fry 4 burritos at a time, seam side down. Fry for around 2 minutes on each side until golden. Wrap in foil and cut in half in the centre for easy eating.

Substitution notes:

While chicken is easy, also try this with other roast meats from the rotisserie like lamb, beef or pork!

Personal Note

I made these for Mr NQN as I was headed for a few nights away for a media trip. The day before I left I was busy so I asked him to buy a bbq chicken and run some errands. Within an hour I had 8 enormous burritos packed up.

He loves these as he loved Mission burritos. They're pretty much a meal in one as you have some meat, vegetables and carbs. And he loves anything that he can eat in one hand and type with the other. I made way too many for the number of days I would be away but when I came back they were all gone.

On the way back from our media trip Laura and I were driving home and Usher came on the soundtrack and Laura started laughing. She explained that when she was a teenager, peak attractiveness for a guy for me was the way that he danced to Usher. "Now I just want somebody that is going to pick up the coffee pods that I like from the store!" she said.

So tell me Dear Reader, have you ever tried Mission style burritos in San Francisco?