Chipotle x DBS x Cowboy Caviar

basically a DBS-ified burrito bowl

You can tell so much about a person by their Chipotle order.

Mine is extremely me-coded; I love a cozy meal that’s light but loaded. I know Chipotle gets flack for portion sizes, but my burrito bowl has never not been overflowing. Though I will say you’d probably need to be a huge veggie girl like me to enjoy my order. And in case you were curious/wanted to judge me by my order: white rice, half black/half pinto beans, peppers and onion, chicken, extra pico, extra corn, sour cream, cheese, lettuce, and guac. Chips on the side, always.

Anyways, all of that was just to say that I was meal prepping some cowboy caviar this weekend bc I wanted an excuse to eat chips for dinner and somehow ended up making a salad that tastes exactly like my chipotle burrito bowl order if you were to take away the rice and ‘unhealthy’ stuff. I made that on sunday night and it’s already almost all gone…

I live alone and it’s only Tuesday morning.

ingredients:

• 4 roma tomatoes, seeds removed and diced

• 2 bell peppers (any color*), diced

• 1 red onion, diced

• 1 cup corn (I used frozen roasted corn, one of my freezer staples!)

• 1 can black beans, drained and rinsed

• 1 can pinto beans, drained and rinsed

• 1/2 bunch cilantro, chopped

• 1/2 jalapeno, seeds removed and finely diced

• avocado (optional)

• dressing:

  • 1 tbsp taco seasoning

  • 2 tbsp red wine vinegar

  • 2 tbsp oil

  • 1 tbsp honey or agave

  • Juice of one lime (about 1-2 tbsp)

  • 1 tsp salt

steps:

1. In a large bowl, whisk all dressing ingredients together**

2. In the same bowl, toss in the rest of the ingredients (if meal prepping, add avocado separately before eating)

3. Enjoy ᵕ̈

*I went with one orange and one green bell pepper just so each ingredient would be a different color since we have red from the tommy toes and yellow from the corn. (P.S. if you’re easily influenced like me and have one of those veggie choppers that went viral on TikTok, this is the perfect recipe to use it)

**In typical lazy girl fashion, I like to write my recipes with similar measurements if possible (less dirty dishes). For the same reason, if we’re using the same spoon/cup to measure, I also like to write out the ingredients in the order I would measure everything for max efficiency. For example, measure dry stuff (ex: taco seasoning) before wet stuff so it doesn’t stick to the spoon. I also always measure oil before anything sticky like honey so that the honey slides right out. Making the dressing first in the same bowl as the salad also = less dishes. I got you ᵕ̈