Easy and delicious Mexican burrito bowls made in just one pot in 30 minutes…making cleanup a breeze. Perfect for busy weeknights!
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Ground Beef Burrito Bowl
If you’ve been a long-time reader, it’s no surprise that I’m a big fan of Mexican recipes. Some of my favorites include my green chicken enchiladas and taco soup.
These easy burrito bowls have now been added to the list! If you like my taco soup, you will love this recipe. I used many of the same ingredients but added my easy Mexican rice to make the famous burrito bowl.
This burrito bowl recipe is an easy 30-minute meal and one of our favorite one-pot dinners. It’s loaded with ground beef, rice, black beans, cheese, fresh tomatoes, and cilantro!
Ingredients
Don’t let the ingredient list overwhelm you! These ingredients are simple to dump together in a one pot bowl and mix together.
Find the full printable recipe with specific measurements below.
- Seasonings: Chili powder, taco seasoning, and salt and pepper to taste are blended together to make a Mexican spice.
- Vegetables: Red bell pepper, sweet onions, corn, and diced green chiles are spicy and savory crunch.
- Legumes: We used black beans, but pinto beans would work too.
- Tomatoes: Diced tomatoes and Thick n’ Chunky Salsa is the perfect freshness in this one-pot burrito bowl.
- Rice: I use jasmine white rice, uncooked.
- Cheese: Shredded cheddar jack is our go-to cheese to use for this recipe.
- Meat: Our preference is lean ground beef, but you can substitute chicken breast or thighs if preferred for a chicken burrito bowl.
- Liquid: We used chicken broth, but vegetable broth works too.
How to Make a Burrito Bowl
One pot meals is the perfect meal for a busy weeknight dinner. Cook the beef, add sesasoning, and cook the vegetables, legumes, tomaotes, and rice together for a delicous mixture. It is the best beef burrito bowl!
- Saute. Cook the onions and red pepper in a large pan until soft, then add in the beef and cook until brown. Drain any excess grease.
- Combine. Stir in the salsa, black beans, corn, tomatoes, green chiles, jasmine rice, taco seasoning, and chili powder.
- Simmer. Then pour in chicken stock and bring to a light boil. Cover the pan and reduce heat to low. Cook until rice is tender, about 15 to 20 minutes.
- Top. Add favorite toppings and serve over lettuce in a salad bowl and eat with tortilla chips. It also tastes delicious on top of nachos or in a flour tortilla to make a burrito.
5 star review
“FABULOUS! My husband and I loved this – super tasty! We had it on lettuce but I’m sure it would be good on tortilla chips or even by itself. Thank you so much for posting this recipe – this will be a regular meal at our home now 😀“
-Sherrie
Tips + Modifications
You are going to love how simple this meal is and how fast it comes together all in one pot! Try these tips and modifications to make your burrito bowl just the way you like it. Modify the meat, make it vegetarian, add more spice, and make the rice just right!
- Meat. Feel free to sub ground beef with ground turkey or chicken (dice into 1-inch cubes). You can also use any leftover cooked meat, like taco meat or shredded chicken. Just mix it in when you add all of the other ingredients.
- Vegetarian. Sub the meat with diced sweet potatoes, similar to my one-pot sweet potato bowls. You could add in more beans, my easy refried beans, or fajita veggies too.
- Spice. To take the heat up a notch, add a little more chili powder or mix in some red pepper flakes or chopped jalapenos. You can also use fire-roasted diced tomatoes or hot salsa.
- Using leftovers. Leftovers are perfect for making stuffed bell peppers or a taco salad.
Recipe FAQs
These burrito bowls are full of fresh ingredients with vegetables, protein, beans, and rice. It is a filling and hearty and delicious dinner with low calories.
A burrito bowl has several options to add to it and build on it with ingredients of your choosing whereas a lifestyle bowl is premade bowl options like grains, veggies, balanced macros, or plant-based bowls.
Burrito bowls are versatile and can be arranged in several different ways. The base of the one-pot chicken burrito bowl usually contains chicken, rice, beans, salsa, and guacamole. Squeeze fresh limes over top for a nice zest!
They are usually cooked and warmed up when served.
Storing Buritto Bowl
Place your leftovers in an airtight container and place in the refrigerator for five to seven days. When ready to reheat, place in the microwave or stovetop until it is warm.
Feeding a crowd? Serve this dish with these baked nachos or an extra side of black beans and rice!
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Burrito Bowl Recipe
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Ingredients
- 1 Tablespoon olive oil
- ½ cup red bell pepper , chopped
- ½ cup sweet onion , chopped
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- ½ cup salsa , I used Thick n’ Chunky Medium spice
- 15 ounce can black beans , rinsed and drained
- 15 ounce can corn , drained
- 14.5 ounce can diced tomatoes
- 4 ounce can diced green chiles
- 1 cup jasmine rice , rinsed
- 1 Tablespoon taco seasoning
- ½ teaspoon chili powder , use 1-2 tsp if you like more spice
- 2 cups chicken stock , or vegetable broth works too
- 1 cup shredded cheddar/jack cheese
- S&P to taste
Optional Toppings: Sour cream, cilantro, green onions, tomatoes, guacamole or sliced avocados, jalapenos or hot sauce
Instructions
- In a large pan, heat the olive oil over medium heat. Sauté the onions and red peppers. Add in hamburger and cook until browned. Drain grease. Salt and pepper to taste.
- Stir in salsa, black beans, corn, tomatoes, green chiles, jasmine rice, taco seasoning and chili powder. Pour in chicken stock and then bring to a light boil. Cover the pan and reduce heat to low. Cook for an additional 15 minutes, or until the rice is all the way cooked.
- Stir and season to taste. Add cheese if desired. Cover pot with lid and let rest for 5 minutes for the cheese to melt.
- Spoon into bowls and top with your favorite toppings. We like to serve over lettuce in a salad bowl and eat with tortilla chips.
Notes
- You could also make this recipe with chicken. Dice the chicken into 1-inch cubes and cook in place of the hamburger.
- You can also use a can of rotel in place of the separate cans of tomatoes and green chiles.
- You can add extra veggies in with the peppers. Add 1/4 cup extra broth if adding more.
Nutrition
Nutrition provided is an estimate. It will vary based on specific ingredients used.
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Categorized as: 30 Minute Meals, 30 Minute Meals, Beef, Cinco De Mayo, Dinner, Mexican, One Pot, One Pot, Reader Favorites, Stovetop
Jamielyn Nye is the founder and recipe creator at I Heart Naptime. She is the author of the I Heart Naptime Cookbook and shares easy family-friendly recipes and desserts for every occasion.
Hi Jamielyn,
This looks amazing! It’s been pinned a lot! Have you or anyone tried it with brown rice? Will it need more liquid or exponentially increase the cooking time? Thanks!
Hi! I haven’t tried it with brown rice but I would recommend cooking the brown rice separately and then adding it to the pot. :)
I love this kind of food!!
I love Qdoba’s burrito bowl, and this looks even better than theirs. I’m going to have to make this for myself–and take leftovers to work for lunch the next night (make my coworkers jealous? ME? Nah, wouldn’t dream of it….hehehehehe!).
Hope you enjoy these burrito bowls! :)
Wonderful! I really used a short cut. I had a pound of frozen cooked burger and leftover brown rice in the freezer. I added onion, 1can rotel, black beans, frozen corn, 2 pkg taco seasoning,a healthy pinch crushed red pepper and enough chicken stock to blend it all. Then topped it with cheese just before serving. I WILL make this again. Thank you.
GREAT tips! Thanks for sharing how to make this recipe easily! :)
Just made this for my family tonight, and they loved it! I also replaced the diced tomatoes and green chiles with two cans of Ro-Tel, but other than that, I made it exactly the same. So glad I found this! Next time I may try it with shredded/ diced cooked chicken, but otherwise it was definitely a hit here. :)
I’m so glad your family liked it! Thanks for sharing your substitutions. :)
Making this now and noted that the recipe calls for shredded cheese but doesn’t say when to add it. Assuming after the rice is done with the “optional toppings”? Thanks!
Hi Sue! I always add it to the top at the end! :)
can this be made in a crock pot or Dutch oven?
Hi Marissa! I don’t think it would work very well!
sounds and looks delicious, but I think from reading the comments, I will make the recipe, omitting the rice and most/all? of the chicken stock and cook the rice separately and stir in at the end.
If you use jasmine rice you shouldn’t have any problems! I have made the rice in the rice cooker and added it at the end and it works great too! :)
I pinned this awhile back because I love one pot meals. Added this in for our Taco Tuesday this week and it was a big hit!
Is there a printable version?
Hi Tamara! On the recipe that is a print button that will pull it up in a printable version without all the pictures! :)
I used rotell tomatoes, 1 pkg taco seasoning, double salsa and cheese, skipped chilis it was fantastic
So glad you liked it Peggy! :)
This recipe looks great! Wondering if there’s an easy way to sub chicken breast instead of the hamburger meat. Could this be made in a crockpot with chicken breast so the chicken could be shredded? I’m not good with adjusting recipes ony own.
You could definitely sub chicken for the hamburger meat. I would just cook and shred it beforehand and then add it in! I haven’t tried making this recipe in the crock pot, so I am not sure! :)
I can’t believe in this day & age that the nutritional information is not available for this recipe! It sounds yummy, but some of us must have that info first!
Hi Alisa! There are some great websites that will help you get the nutritional information. :)
this looks like a good one for my college daughter making the move to apartment life with her roommates!
this was absolutely delicious! so easy and quick. thanks for sharing.
So glad you liked it! :)
The burrito bowl is delicious and a new favorite recipe. Is the nutritional content available?
I’m so glad you liked the burrito bowls! I don’t have the nutritional content, but there are a lot of really great websites online that can help you figure that out! :)
Could you skip the chicken stock part? Im not a fan of chicken stock
I wouldn’t recommend it, the rice wouldn’t cook. You could cook the rice before if you wanted, but I’ve never tried it.
Thanks for the recipe! Just made this for my family. Reserved the toppings until we had separate bowls since we like different things and it turned out great. i used pre-cooked jasmine rice since that is what I had on hand, so i just added it with a tiny bit of chicken broth and shortened the cooking time, and that worked too. Yum!
Thanks for your comment Leah! I’m glad your family liked the recipe!