Carne Adovada Burritos

This is a traditional New Mexican dish, adapted for a slow cooker.  Carne adovada is just slow cooked pork, marinated and cooked in a red chile sauce.  It is a super easy meal here in the southwest because we can buy frozen puréed red chile in any grocery store.  We use carne adovada as the meat filling for burritos along with rice or potatoes and beans.  The teenagers in my house recommend the carne adovada burritos from Twisters, a popular New Mexico fast food restaurant.  In more upscale New Mexican restaurants, carne adovada is generally served as a meat entrée with beans and potatoes or rice on the side.  Either way, the smell of dinner in the slow cooker when you get home in the evening is truly magical, especially when that smell is the red chile of carne adovada.

Carne Adovada Burritos

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Course Main Dish

Cuisine Mexican

Ingredients

  

• 2 lb. pork roast fat trimmed and removed
• 1 16 oz. container frozen red chile
• 2 teaspoons minced garlic
• 2 teaspoons flour
• 1 teaspoon garlic salt
• 1 teaspoon oregano

Instructions

 

• Add all ingredients to the slow cooker and cook on low 10+ hours. I’ve even added the pork frozen, and it turns out fine.
• To make a burrito, serve the meat mixture on a tortilla with either Spanish rice or square cut hash brown potatoes (I start with frozen hash browns).
• Refried beans from the can are a nice side.
• We like guacamole on top of our tortillas, then we eat them with a fork.
• Serve with a lettuce and tomato salad on the side.