Holy Fried Burrito Batman!

[ajhuff]

Slow day today at work so I tried a chimichanga idea out. Fail.

How do you fry these things! Is there a special basket? I tried nesting my fry baskets but they still floated and fell apart.

Thanks!

-AJ

[Vertigo]

Pin them closed with a frill pick.

[ajhuff]

Pin them closed with a frill pick.

Boy do I feel silly, but what's a frill pick?

-AJ

[DeepCSweede]

I use a little bit of flour water paste to keep mine together.

[Pensacola Tiger]

Boy do I feel silly, but what's a frill pick?

-AJ

I'd pull the cellophane off, but any toothpick will work.

[sachem allison]

Slow day today at work so I tried a chimichanga idea out. Fail.

How do you fry these things! Is there a special basket? I tried nesting my fry baskets but they still floated and fell apart.

Thanks!

-AJ

I pan fry mine, come out great, cook fast, never unravel. just make sure you don't have the heat too high.

[knyfeknerd]

butcher twine or if you sandwich it right, just one fryer basket on top of the other. Oh yes they do make a special basket too.

[Crothcipt]

If you use flour tortilla you can use water to close off the roll. I think you can doe the same with corn, but never tried it. I also do the stacking fryer baskets. If you have to much filling coming out use frill picks to help seal and support the seams.

[tk59]

I pan fry mine, come out great, cook fast, never unravel. just make sure you don't have the heat too high.

+1. Another variation that I do when I only want to make one or two is to just brush on some of my oil of choice and just broil it (you'll have to flip it, of course).

[ajhuff]

If you use flour tortilla you can use water to close off the roll. I think you can doe the same with corn, but never tried it. I also do the stacking fryer baskets. If you have to much filling coming out use frill picks to help seal and support the seams.

Thanks. I want to use up some store bought whole wheat tortillas we have for some reason. They are not very big so stacking the fryer baskets did not work. I don't have the time to fiddle trussing them. I'll try the toothpick trick tomorrow. I'm not too keen on pan frying but if I can't pull these off in the fryer I'll try something on the flat top.

Thanks again.

-AJ