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Chorizo-beef smash on tortillas with refried beans, salsa and a cheese crust

SAM THE COOKING GUY · ♥ 9.5K likes · 191.6K views · 8 min video

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Ingredients
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Techniques
  • 1 can pinto beans
Drain a can of pinto beans, keeping the liquid; warm the beans in a hot pan to soften.
  • bean liquid
  • salt
  • pepper
  • cumin
Season with salt, pepper and cumin, add some of the reserved liquid and mash, leaving some texture; leave to simmer.
  • yellow onion
  • Roma tomato
  • jalapeno
  • green onion
  • oil
  • lime juice
For the salsa, mix diced yellow onion, Roma tomato, jalapeno and green onion with salt, pepper, a splash of oil and lime juice; set aside.
A fresh salsa
  • 5 oz ground beef
  • 3 oz beef chorizo
Mix about 5 ounces of ground beef with 3 ounces of beef chorizo, seasoned with salt and pepper.
  • tortilla
Put a little oil on the flat top, lay down the meat with the tortilla and smash it a little bigger than the tortilla; cook about another minute before the cheese.
Smashing onto the tortilla
  • cheese
Flip; lay a bed of cheese on the flat top, set the smash on it and smash again; let the cheese get lacy and crispy, flip, and after 15 seconds make a cheese lid the same way.
  • avocado
  • lettuce
Build: the bottom, refried beans, avocado, the salsa, lettuce and the cheesy lid; trim excess cheese.
Building it