I wanted to use ingredients I had on hand and came across flautas online. I’ve had them at restaurants but have never attempted homemade. I came up with my own version and they turned out so yummy! Here’s my recipe, feel free to use your own ingredients you have on hand. But this is a really yummy mixture. Also, if you are looking for footbal foods this would be perfect!
Ingredients:
1 package of flour tortillas
3-4 cups spinach
Ground beef (I flavored it with taco seasoning)
Brown rice
Shredded cheese
1 cup black beans, drained
1-2 tsp olive oil
Softened butter or olive oil for coating
A glass of wine or a beer-to drink while your cooking of course! Cooking should be fun!
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Cut up tortillas into quarters
- Chop up spinach and put into a pan on the stove. Add 1 tsp of olive oil and cook until wilted, about 3-5 minutes.
- Mix ground beef, black beans and brown rice together
- Put a small amount of ground beef mixture onto the outer curved part of the quartered tortilla. Next to it (on the inside) add a small amount of spinach. After that put a small amount of shredded cheese. Here is what mine looked like
ground beef mixture, spinach and cheese - Roll up from the outside in and place on a pre-sprayed cookie sheet. Continue until you fill the pan up.
- Take softened butter or olive oil and rub onto flautas. This is to make sure the flautas get crispy or flaky. Mine looked like this. I tried both to compare. I like the olive oil a little bit better but they both taste amazing.
- Put into oven for 15 minutes, take the, out and enjoy! They should look like this
This is the finished product comparison. They look similar.
I served them with cheese sauce, sour cream and avocado.
Hope you enjoy them as much as we do!
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