Red Sauce Smothered Burritos {Instant Pot Recipe} (2024)

FAQs

What is the red sauce in burritos? ›

Baked Chicken Burritos - Shredded rotisserie chicken, black beans, cilantro lime rice and stuffed into flour tortillas. The burritos are then smothered in red enchilada sauce and baked.

Taco Bell's Smothered Burrito features a warm flour tortilla filled with Latin rice, refried beans, creamy chipotle sauce, and the choice of new shredded chicken, seasoned beef, or steak. The burrito is then covered in red sauce, a melted 3-cheese blend, and reduced-fat sour cream.

Water: It is important to add some water so that you do not get an Instant Pot burn message when the sauce and meatballs cook.

Salsa roja ( lit. 'red sauce') is a type of spicy red sauce in Mexican cuisine. It is made of jitomate (red tomato), ground with onion, garlic, chilli, salt and pepper to taste.

A Taco Bell Smothered Burrito is a delight for your taste buds, packed with seasoned beef, fluffy Mexican rice, hearty refried beans, and real cheddar cheese. But wait, there's more! It's then generously smothered in a savory red sauce, melted cheese, and topped with cool sour cream.

Burritos with sauce

Does it become an enchilada? Well, technically no, because of the flour tortilla. But this variation has garnered a name of its own and is often called a “wet burrito” or a “smothered burrito.” While not the most appetizing names, they do easily mark this distinction.

If you've never heard of a “wet burrito” (aka Burrito Mojado) it's not hard to guess where it gets its name! Regular burritos are stuffed in a flour tortilla and wrapped in aluminum foil so you can eat them with your hands.

Lai says the most common cause for a burn notification is not adding enough liquid to the pot or using thick ingredients like a thick tomato sauce. "If you sauté prior to pressure cooking and you do not properly deglaze the bottom of the pot, food stuck to the bottom can cause the burn notification," says Lai.

Unfortunately, once you overcook a piece of meat in the pressure cooker, there's no going back. You'll be left with a pile of dry, crunchy, tasteless fibers and no amount of additional pressure cooking is going to put that moisture back into the meat. Earlier, I explained how ingredient size affects the cooking time.

What is the red enchilada sauce called? ›

The most common “red” enchilada sauce may also be called salsa roja, salsa roja para enchiladas, or mole rojo. This is a sauce made out of ancho/pasilla/New Mexico and/or Cascabel chiles, onion, garlic, tomatoes, broth, cumin, oregano, etc.

Wet burritos are made “wet” when smothered in enchilada sauce, served on a plate, and eaten with a fork. If you want to make my favorite version of a wet burrito, try it served with both red and green enchilada sauce spooned separately over each half of the burrito.

Salsa Roja

In Spanish, salsa roja means “red sauce”. This is a general term that covers any type of blended red salsa made with tomatoes. Salsa roja can be made from raw ingredients, cooked ingredients, or a combination of both.

Red sauce may refer to: Marinara sauce, in the United States. Ketchup, in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Salsa roja, in Mexican cuisine.