Buffalo Hen Burritos (Excessive Protein)

These high-protein buffalo rooster burritos (32g protein per burrito!) are flavor-packed, straightforward to make, and excellent for lunch, dinner, or freezer-friendly meal prep. They’ve the proper quantity of warmth, and since you’re utilizing floor rooster, diced veggies, and a creamy cottage cheese buffalo sauce, you get alllll the flavour in each single chunk.

I really like a very good high-protein recipe, and the gals and I’ve been creating protein-rich recipes utilizing cottage cheese for YEARS over right here on Match Foodie Finds, and this one could take the cake for my new favourite. Get able to take pleasure in these as a lot as I do 😋😋.

Three halves of a burrito filled with scrambled eggs, cheese, and diced vegetables are stacked on a plate next to celery sticks.

Tremendous straightforward to make — I like making a double batch to freeze a couple of!
Excessive in protein (helllloooo, 32g per burrito!).
Critically delish creamy buffalo taste.

Substances to Collect

Hen: Floor rooster can get a foul rap, but it surely’s truly essential to getting wonderful buffalo taste in each single chunk of those burritos. It soaks up the sauce tremendous effectively, and integrates completely with the chopped veggies, too.
Cottage cheese: Protein powerhouse reporting for obligation! The blended cottage cheese not solely provides nice dietary worth, it additionally makes for a brilliant creamy base for the buffalo sauce.
Buffalo sauce: I’m a Franks sizzling sauce girlie by way of and thru, however be at liberty to substitute on your favourite buffalo sauce in case you desire. Love buffalo as a lot as me? You’ll additionally take pleasure in this buffalo rooster wrap recipe.
Tortillas: You’ll need burrito-sized tortillas so you may wrap all this goodness up 😋.

Discover the listing of full elements within the recipe card beneath.

Six-step collage showing the process of making breakfast burritos: blending sauce, sautéing vegetables, cooking scramble, assembling burrito, toasting, and a hand holding a cut burrito.

Suggestions for Making These Excessive-Protein Burritos

My #1 tip for making these buffalo rooster burritos is to ensure you don’t combine the buffalo sauce with the rooster in a brilliant sizzling skillet. This drastic change in temperature could cause the cottage cheese to curdle, and whereas it received’t change the style, the looks of the curdled buffalo sauce might be off-putting.

Aspect Dish Options

I really like having fun with these buffalo rooster burritos with a aspect of candy potato fries or my tremendous crispy candy potato chips. Searching for a salad choice? I’d suggest this spring combine salad. Dip girlie like me? Make this Greek yogurt blue cheese for the proper dipper 😋.

Extra Standard Burrito Recipes

Two hands hold a breakfast burrito cut in half, showing scrambled eggs, cheddar cheese, and diced vegetables inside a tortilla wrap.

These burritos will maintain effectively within the fridge for a day or two, however the buffalo sauce will change into extra runny the longer it sits (aka soggy tortillas), so I extremely suggest serving instantly or freezing for later.

Let burritos cool utterly. This half is necessary as a result of it’s going to assist forestall freezer burn.
Subsequent, tightly wrap every burrito with a chunk of tin foil, ensuring there aren’t any gaps and that the burrito is totally coated. Some folks wish to first wrap them with plastic wrap, however I don’t suppose it’s mandatory.
Take away as a lot air as attainable from in between the burrito and tin foil. This half additionally helps forestall freezer burn.
Use a Sharpie to put in writing the identify of the burrito and a “best-by date” (3 months from the time you make it) on every burrito.
Freeze for as much as 3 months!

These buffalo rooster burritos might be reheated from frozen OR thawed, so select your personal journey right here!

If heating from frozen, unwrap and place the buffalo rooster burrito on a plate after which into the microwave. Use the defrost setting in your microwave for two to three minutes, flipping each minute. Then microwave on excessive for 60-90 seconds or till sizzling.

If heating from thawed, microwave on excessive for 60 to 90 seconds.

Extra of My Favourite Excessive-Protein Recipes

Warmth olive oil in a big skillet over medium warmth. Add the onion and ¼ teaspoon salt. Saute the onion for 2-3 minutes. Add the carrot and celery and saute for an extra 2-3 minutes.
Add the bottom rooster and break the meat as much as mix with the greens. Add the garlic powder and the remainder of the salt. Saute till utterly cooked. Switch to a bowl and put aside.
Put together the buffalo sauce. Add the cottage cheese, cheddar cheese, sizzling sauce, and water to a blender. Mix till utterly easy.
Add the sauce to the rooster and vegetable combination. Combine to mix.
Lay 4 massive tortillas on a clear, flat floor. Evenly distribute the rooster combination to the center of every tortilla. Tightly wrap every burrito.
Choice to eat the burritos as is or toast them in a skillet till the tortillas are golden brown.

Any floor meat can be utilized instead of the bottom rooster.
Don’t combine the sauce and rooster combination within the skillet whether it is sizzling, this may increasingly trigger the cottage cheese to curdle.
Freezer directions: As soon as the burritos are wrapped, allow them to cool, then wrap every burrito in plastic wrap or aluminum foil. Retailer them within the freezer for as much as 3 months.

Energy: 407 kcal, Carbohydrates: 20 g, Protein: 32 g, Fats: 22 g, Fiber: 2 g, Sugar: 4 g

Diet info is mechanically calculated, so ought to solely be used as an approximation.

Images: pictures taken on this publish are by Erin from The Wood Skillet.