No I don’t mean we MOCK qudoba… there is nothing funny about their yummy burrito goodness! I mean we started a mock qudoba night as in we make our own qudoba inspired dinner.

So this was the first time I tried to imitate their yummy goodness and boy oh boy was it good, it was a huuuuge hit with the kids and theirs were totally GFCF. It was a little work putting it all together as there are a lot of facets to the meal but it made enough to feed our family of 5 for 2 meals EASY, and then some. My boys can pack it away so that’s saying ALOT!!!!

So how did I do it? I didn’t have a recipe really so I will just tell you what I did and used.

I made cilantro lime rice, black beans, seasoned ground beef, cheese (or cheese sub), corn, lettuce, tomatoes, black olives, guacamole, and sour cream (or sour cream sub). I made fresh GFCF tortillas for the boys, and also whipped up some fresh salsa.

So I started with making my salsa.

I add ingredients all to the blender and puree :

• Large Can of whole peeled tomatoes
• 1 Serrano pepper seeded and chopped
• 1 heaping tbls of garlic salt
• Cilantro – just eyeball it. I use fresh, and end up using about 1/4 to 1/3 of the leafy part in a bunch.
• 3 or 4 green onion sprigs chopped

Just add it all and blend blend blend. Wear gloves when handling the serrano pepper. TRUST ME. The capsacin (the hot oil in it) will cling to your hands and under your fingernails then you will get a nose itch or watery eye from the cilantro and garlic salt and touch your face unknowlingly and then will feel like you were maced in the face. ITS NOT PRETTY. If by chance you ignore me and end up with mind searing pain or a swelling face then place a very generous amount of dawn dish soap water and dunk you head in it over and over. The dawn will really cut the oil and help you feel better. Mostly nothing else will. If you still are irritated after the dawn, you can use a compress with milk in it to soothe the burn. TRUST ME THIS IS NOT FUN SAVE YOURSELF THE MIND SEARING HELL FIRE PAIN AND WEAR GLOVES.

So now your salsa is made and chillin in fridge if you like it that way.

Next prep all your other veggies.

Make your tortillas if you want. I use the recipe on the Living Without website to make GFCF tortillas. The recipe will make about 6.

Now your rice. I used just some minute rice, I made 3 cups, 2 would have been enough though. So 1-1 ratio of rice and water. I squeezed in 2 small limes, and added about a palm full of super diced up fresh cilantro. Stir, nuke, and that’s done.

While your rice is cooking then cook up your corn, and black beans. I added a liberal amount of garlic salt to my black beans. I had those cooking on the back burners while I browned and seasoned my ground beef with taco seasoning.

So now your rice is done. Warm your tortillas and load them up.

We layered on rice, black beans, beef, corn, cheese, veggies, sour cream, guac in that order, fold the ends in and roll over. You can add your salsa with the ingredients like I did, or layer it on top like Neil did in the photo.

For the boys I just sliced up their tortillas and handed them a bowl of the ingredients all mixed up with the tortillas added.

Simple enough dinner to make, just takes a little time due to all the ingredients. We all had a generous helping for 2 meals, and the boys still had enough for lunch another time. So I would say it feeds 10-12 people very generously.