If you don’t know how to make healthy burritos to serve as starters, appetizers or main dishes of a Mexican meal, don’t miss this step by step that we show you to get healthy chicken and vegetable burritos wrapped with lettuce leaves instead of with flour tortillas which is how Mexican burritos are traditionally made.
Try these burritos with lettuce stuffed with chicken and vegetables and surprise yourself with their rich flavor, being much healthier, more nutritious, lower in calories and easier to make than the original ones. Because eating healthy is not at odds with the taste of the ingredients or the way they are prepared.
Ingredients to make healthy burritos:
- 1 chicken breast
- 2 tomatoes
- 2 white onions
- 1 avocado
- 1 large lettuce
- Salt
- Pepper
- 4 bay leaves
- 1 sprig of thyme
- 1 peeled garlic
How to make healthy burritos:
1.The first thing you should do is get all the ingredients for the healthy chicken burritos ready.
2.Cook the chicken breast in cold water with a little garlic, bay leaf and thyme, for half an hour over medium heat.
3.Chop the tomato into small squares, mix with the white onion cut into fine squares as well, and add a little vinegar, salt and pepper to taste.
4.When the chicken breast is fully cooked, we shred the chicken for our healthy burritos.
5.Remove the lettuce leaves, wash them very well and place a large leaf on a plate. On this we place the desired amount of shredded chicken.
6.Place the avocado cut into slices, the onion and tomato to taste and roll up the lettuce burrito very well.
7.Serve and taste these healthy burritos with a little mustard sauce that is low in calories, some refried beans and a Mexican Michelina for example.
