Beef and Bean Chimichangas – Emily Bites

These straightforward and scrumptious Beef and Bean Chimichangas use simply seven components and may be cooked in your air fryer or oven, whichever is extra handy for you! Chimichangas are historically deep-fried, however this lighter model nonetheless provides a crispy tortilla exterior for much fewer energy. I nonetheless discovered these tremendous decadent, smothered in queso dip with a hearty, flavorful filling. It’s onerous to imagine every chimichanga is simply 275 energy or 3 WW Factors! To view your present WW Factors for this recipe and monitor it within the WW app, click on right here.

Air Fryer or Oven?

I’ve made these Beef and Bean Chimichangas in my air fryer and in my oven and supplied course for each within the recipe directions beneath. In the event you’re planning to serve all eight chimichangas directly, you might need to go along with the oven methodology, since they’ll all be prepared on the similar time as a substitute of in batches of two. In the event you’re solely making two or 4, the air fryer is my most popular choice. I like the feel barely higher and I feel it’s simpler to test on them all through the cook dinner time to get them cooked precisely the way in which you need. Both means, you’re going to finish up with scrumptious chimichangas!

Do I must pre-heat my air fryer?

I’ve seen numerous blended details about this. Some sources say you completely should pre-heat your air fryer and a few say you needn’t trouble. I feel it most likely is determined by the model of air fryer you personal, so you might need to test your handbook. I’ve a COSORI model air fryer and don’t pre-heat for this recipe. I see that Philips (one other fashionable model) additionally says you don’t must pre-heat. In the event you’re unsure about your explicit mannequin, be at liberty to simply run it for a couple of minutes earlier than you add the chimichangas to make certain.

Recipe Notes

• Meat: I used lean floor beef in these, which is now zero factors on Weight Watchers! Nonetheless, floor rooster or floor turkey may also work simply high-quality if that’s what you’ve got readily available.
• Salsa: I like to decide on a extra liquid-y salsa for this recipe, reasonably than a thick, chunky selection. You’re partially utilizing it to coat the meat, so that you need it to be on the wetter facet.
• Tortillas: You’ll need to use a low cal or low carb 8-inch tortilla in the event you’re eager about retaining comparable WW Factors or vitamin information. I like the La Banderita Carb Counter Mushy Taco tortillas and purchase them incessantly, so I undoubtedly advocate these in case your native shops have them!
• Serving Concepts: These Beef and Bean Chimichangas make an important foremost course than can pair with quite a lot of tasty facet dishes! I feel they’d be nice alongside my Straightforward Salsa Rice or an identical Mexican rice, beans, a salad, corn, or sauteed peppers and onions.
• Make Forward/Leftovers: This recipe makes eight Beef and Bean Chimichangas, however in the event you don’t plan to serve that many directly, it’s straightforward to organize and wrap all of them as soon as after which cook dinner as wanted. I cooked 4 of them for our household meal after which saved 4 of them wrapped up within the fridge to air fry as leftovers. I didn’t freeze them, however I’d think about you possibly can additionally simply accomplish that by wrapping every raw chimichanga in cling wrap after which placing them in a sealed freezer bag. Nice for meal prep!

Extra Tasty Lightened Up Mexican-Impressed Recipes:

Searching for extra tasty, lightened up Mexican-inspired recipes? Try my Rooster Taco Rice Skillet, Layered Meat and Bean Enchilada Bake, One-Pot Taco Pasta, Taco Stuffed Twice Baked Potatoes, Turkey and Chorizo Enchilada Rice Bake, Tacky Spicy Black Bean Skillet, Mexican Avenue Corn Rooster, Breakfast Tostadas, 7 Layer Dip, Fiesta Stuffed Rooster, Beef Taco Soup, and lots of extra within the Mexican part of my recipe index!