Kimchi Burritos! A 20-minute, vegetarian dinner recipe, loaded up with healthy veggies, black beans, leftover rice and flavorful kimchi! Korean-inspired burritos that are easy and delicious! Vegan adaptable! 
I’d like you to meet my new favorite quick and easy weeknight dinner – Kimchi Burritos! Even though they are super simple to make (especially if you have any leftover rice laying around) they are flavor bombs! Bursting with so much deliciousness- I can’t wait for you to try these!
I have a confession. These started in yoga. Yep, I have to admit, I was having a hard time focussing on my breath. My mind kept leaping forward and thinking about dinner and all the leftover rice from last night’s Thai food.
Wonder and wondering what to make with it… and boom! Right there in the middle of down-dog, the answer came- KIMCHI Burritos!!!
I love it when that happens. Divine inspiration. 😉
It starts with sauteing onion and bell pepper in a skillet. Keep in mind, the smaller you chop things, the faster those things cook. Just sayin’.
TIP: Using leftover rice makes this incredibly fast to make. So always save your rice!
Now I know many of you have kimchi in your fridge because it is one of the most popular recipes on the blog- so now is the perfect time to pull it out!
And if you don’t, just go buy some, preferably in the refrigerated section of the grocery store. It is so good for you!
Chop 1/2 cup kimchi into small a small dice, so there are no big chunks.
Add the drained black beans, the rice and the kimchi to the sauteed onions and peppers and give a stir.
Why this works: The flavorful kimchi infuses the whole dish with incredible depth and flavor!
Taste for salt and feel free to make this spicier if you like by adding Chili Garlic Paste or Sriracha or Korean chili paste.
Add shredded cheese and some scallions. You can use meltable vegan cheese.
I will say the cheese is extremely good in this!
Stir until it is all melted together, then fill the warmed tortillas.
The Kimchi Burrito filling will be enough for 3-4 burritos.
NOTE: These can also be made ahead and refrigerated, then reheated for lunch.
Fast, easy, delicious Kimchi Burritos- put them on your list for when you have leftover rice. 🙂
And if you haven’t attempted your own homemade Kimchi yet, tis’ the season! It is so easy- here is the Kimchi recipe!
Let me know how you like these guys in the comments below. And be sure to check recipe notes for some adaptions for meat-eating folk. 🙂
Happy week!
Sylvia
More Kimchi Recipes you may like:
- Kimchi Noodles
- Kimchi Soup with Shiitakes, Tofu and Kale
- Kimchi Fried Rice
- How to Make Kimchi! A Quick Easy & Authentic Kimchi Recipe
Kimchi Burritos
- Prep Time: 10
- Cook Time: 10
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 3-4
- Category: main, vegan, vegetarian
- Method: stove-top
- Cuisine: Korean
- Diet: Vegetarian
Description
Ingredients
- 1–2 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 onion, diced
- 1 red bell pepper, diced
- 1 cup rice (leftover rice works great here!)
- 1/2 cup kimchi, chopped
- 1 can black beans, rinsed, strained
- salt to taste (I use 1/2 teaspoon)
- 1–2 scallions, chopped
- 1/2 cup to 1 cup shredded cheese or meltable vegan cheese.
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- optional garnishes: hot sauce (or sriracha ), sour cream or vegan sour cream, cilantro.
- 3 to 4 10-12-inch tortillas, warmed or lightly toasted until soft and pliable.
Instructions
- In a large skillet, heat oil over medium heat. Saute onion and bell pepper until tender, about 4-5 minutes. Add rice, kimchi and black beans, stirring to combine.
- Season with salt and scallions.
- Taste, making this spicier if you like (add sriracha or chili garlic paste) or add more chopped kimchi.
- Add cheese to the pan and gently melt, stirring for about one minute until melty and stringy.
- Divide filling into the center of the warm tortillas, feel free top with sour cream, hot sauce, cilantro and wrap up into a burrito.
- Serve immediately!
Notes
- Kimchi will vary in the spice level. If you are sensitive to heat, start conservatively and make sure to dice it into small pieces. You can always add more to taste. I used 1/2 cup kimchi that was “medium” spicy, and the burritos turned out mild in heat but super flavorful.
- Instead of the black beans, you could add ground meat ( beef, chicken, turkey) – cooking it with the onion and bell pepper, or use leftover baked chicken breast or rotisserie chicken. Use about. 1 – 1 1/2 cups- and make sure to season well.
- Instead of rice, you could use cauliflower rice.
- These can be made ahead and reheated for lunch.
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I made this recipe tonight and we really enjoyed it! My store-bought Kimchee could have been spicier so I added Sriracha, as recommended in the recipe. Additionally, I sprinkled the cheese on the tortillas rather than into my cast iron skillet. Can’t wait to make this again! Thank you!
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First time making this dish. Really easy and tasty. I made a mojo sauce to put on top and it totally worked. I couldn’t find kimchi so I substituted a fermented blend of red cabbage, beets, and carrots. My boys ate two large burritos. Definitely will have this again.
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Sounds perfect! Tell me more about your sauce…it sounds tasty!
The mojo sauce consists of two serano peppers, four garlic gloves, bunch of cilatro, one orange juiced, two limes juiced and 1/2 cup olive oil. Put it all in a food processor. Very simple.
Yum!
Love these – perfect mid week meal. Comes together so quickly and taste delicious. Some of the family had it on top of lettuce as a salad and others had in a burrito. Everyone enjoyed!
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Very dry and doesn’t really taste of too much. Followed the instruction and didn’t turn out anything like the picture. Would say use less than 1 cup of rice and also use quac/salsa/sour cream with it or something along those lines.
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Sorry about that I will have to remake these, it has been a while.
Made this a few times for my roommates. We all love it!
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Great to hear!
Another super YUM!
Just so simple and delicious.
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Awesome Beverly! Glad you liked this. 🙌
I wish I could give these more than 5 stars because they are that delicious. The flavors just all go together so well. They were a huge hit in my house. Thank you for sharing .
Awesome- glad you liked it! 🙌
This was so good. I added pickled jalapenos because my husband doesn’t like kimchi, and a tomato, cilantro, lime juice and avocado chunks. My husband said he’d gladly be a vegetarian if we could eat like this every night. Thanks!!
Andrea
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ahaha! love it!
So good! We made these with fresh rice and it was delicious. We put the rice in the instant pot and while it was cooking we chopped everything else up. We will make these again for sure!!!
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So Glad you liked these Amber!
YUM. These turned out so good!
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I premade this for my husband’s sailing team. It was a perfect grab and go while racing. I browned a pound of ground beef before cooking the onions and boosted the Kim chi by another cup. It was fabulous! The flavors melded together perfectly and it was something a little different than the regular same old. Thanks Sylvia
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These are DELICIOUS! We used black rice and threw in two slices/100g of shoulder bacon (chopped & fried) as well (to appease my meat eater partner). Will be eating again for sure.
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