Beef crunchwraps
Seasoned beef, cheese, crunchy chips and cool toppings folded inside a big tortilla and pan-toasted until golden.
- 35 min total
- 30 min hands-on
- Follow-a-recipe easy
- Serves 4
- About $2.84 a serving
- 630 calories
Dolly says: Read the steps once before you start. Everything goes smoother after that.
Ingredients
For 4 servings.
- 1 lb 85/15 ground beef
- 4 flour tortillas
- 1 cup shredded cheddar
- 1 cup tortilla chips
- ½ cup sour cream
- 1 cup shredded lettuce
- 1 tomato, diced
From your pantry
- 1 tbsp chili powder
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- ½ tsp onion powder
- ¾ tsp salt
- ⅓ cup water
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
Each serving has about 630 calories, 33 g protein, 31 g carbs and 41 g fat, and costs about $2.84 at typical US grocery prices. Both are estimates from what the recipe uses.
Missing something?
- No 85/15 ground beef? 90/10 ground beef works.
- No flour tortillas? Whole wheat tortillas work.
- No shredded cheddar? Cheddar cheese or Mexican blend cheese or Monterey Jack cheese works.
- No sour cream? Plain Greek yogurt works.
- No shredded lettuce? Iceberg lettuce or romaine lettuce works.
- No tomatoes? Roma tomatoes work.
Steps
Tap an underlined word for a quick explanation.
Cook the beef in a large over medium-high 7 to 8 minutes, breaking it up, until no pink is left. Spoon off the fat.
Skillet. A skillet is a frying pan: wide and flat with low, sloped sides. The shape lets steam escape, so food browns instead of stewing.
How you’ll know: It’s the pan you’d fry an egg in, and a 10 or 12 inch one handles most recipes.
Medium-high heatTimer: 7 min 30 sec
Food safety: Ground beef, pork and lamb are done at 160°F. When it’s cooked through there’s no pink left anywhere in the pan.
Stir in the chili powder, cumin, garlic powder, onion powder, salt and water, and 3 minutes, until thick. Scoop into a bowl and wipe out the pan.
Simmer. Simmering means keeping a liquid just below a boil, with small bubbles rising gently. It cooks food evenly and lets a sauce thicken without scorching on the bottom.
How you’ll know: Small, lazy bubbles break the surface every second or so, and nothing is churning.
Medium heatTimer: 3 min
Warm each tortilla in the dry over medium for 10 seconds per side so it bends without cracking.
Skillet. A skillet is a frying pan: wide and flat with low, sloped sides. The shape lets steam escape, so food browns instead of stewing.
How you’ll know: It’s the pan you’d fry an egg in, and a 10 or 12 inch one handles most recipes.
Medium heat
In the center of each tortilla, keeping to a circle about 6 inches wide, layer a quarter of the beef, cheese, a small handful of chips, sour cream, lettuce and tomato.
Dolly’s tip: Keep the filling in the middle. Overfilled wraps won’t close.Fold the edge of the tortilla up over the filling, then keep folding and pleating your way around until it’s closed.
Dolly’s tip: Hold each pleat down with your thumb as you make the next. It looks like a little pinwheel on top.Heat the oil in the over medium. Set the crunchwraps in pleated side down and cook 2 to 3 minutes, until and sealed.
Skillet. A skillet is a frying pan: wide and flat with low, sloped sides. The shape lets steam escape, so food browns instead of stewing.
How you’ll know: It’s the pan you’d fry an egg in, and a 10 or 12 inch one handles most recipes.
Golden brown. Golden brown is the color of good toast, somewhere between yellow and light brown. It means the outside is cooked and crisp but not burnt.
How you’ll know: It looks like toast and smells toasty; dark brown with a bitter smell means it went too far.
Medium heatTimer: 2 min 30 sec
Dolly’s tip: Pleated side down first. The heat glues the folds shut.Flip and cook 2 to 3 minutes more, until , then cut each in half.
Golden brown. Golden brown is the color of good toast, somewhere between yellow and light brown. It means the outside is cooked and crisp but not burnt.
How you’ll know: It looks like toast and smells toasty; dark brown with a bitter smell means it went too far.
Medium heatTimer: 2 min 30 sec
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