Beef Tenderloin Burritos
Ingredients
Ingredients:
2 pounds Beef tenderloin roast
Dried garlic
Coarse ground black pepper
1 sweet onion, sliced
30 cloves of garlic, peeled
Salsa, (your favorite) we liked the fire roasted hot
Sour Cream
Tortillas
Jalapenos
Preparation
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Prep Time: 5 minutes
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Cook Time: 55 minutes
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Grill: Traeger
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Pellets: Mesquite
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Directions:
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The garlic and sliced onions we just did with a little butter. Sauté on the stove until soft.
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Cooking Directions: Traeger
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Open the lid and set the dial to “Smoke”, after about five minutes shut the lid. Give it about 10 minutes to heat up. Patti has lined the drip pan with foil for me, it makes for easier clean up. Place your meat directly onto the center of the grill and just let it hang out in the smoke and get happy for 30 minutes or so. This is referred to as “cold smoking”, the temperature is around 100 degrees. 30 minutes of cold smoking is not enough to have any cooking effect on your meat. But, it is enough to open the pores, so that the meat can pick up all the flavor of the smoke.
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When the meat reaches an internal temp around 130 pull it off. Cover it and let it rest for 10 minutes before serving. This will be rare to medium rare. Keep in mind that the meat will continue cooking for another 10 degrees after you pull it off the grill. So, for medium pull it at 140 and overdone 160.
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Note: I get a lot of questions about the kind of pellets you can use with a recipe. Keep in mind that a recipe is just an outline. Some you need follow closely like when you are making bread. But, most you can do anything you can dream, our favorite way to cook. Feel free to mix and match the pellets until you find a combination you really like.
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Directions: Gas Grill
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Prep Time: 5 minutes
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Cook Time: 55 minutes
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Preheat your grill to medium heat (300 - 350) and turn off one side so you will be cooking with indirect heat. Add your wet hickory chips over the fire and oil the grill. A cooking spray is easiest for this. (Note: you can add your hickory directly to the grill or you can use foil smoke packets.(Two handfuls wet chips and one dry, fold foil into a packet, poke holes in it with a fork and you’re good to go.)
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Preparing Charcoal Grill
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Get the Grill ready, you will want your temperature of around 300-350 degrees. Remember, you are going medium indirect heat here for about 25 minutes. Bank your coals over to one side of your grill. Add your “drained wood chips” and you are good to go… Your cooking times and temps will be the same as above.
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Cooking In the Oven:
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Oven cook time will be 25 minutes @ 350 degrees.
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We have been getting requests for recipe conversions for the oven. I tell folks all the time that cooking on a Traeger is just as easy as cooking in your oven. Just about anyone can do it and do it well. Think about it. You set your control knob to the temp you want, put your meat in and leave it for a set time.
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It is the same thing. Time and temperature is what it is all about. The Traeger is just like your oven, except it uses wood pellets and has wheels.
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Foil smoke packets. (Two handfuls wet chips and one dry, fold foil into a packet, poke holes in it with a fork and you’re good to go.) Just set it in the oven. You might want to make sure you turn on your vent fan or your house will fill up with smoke. You will give your alarms a good work out. And if not, it’s time to change the batteries.
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Let Rest for 10 minutes to Redistribute the Juices
Tools
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About
I got this idea from Larry Gaian, a well-known barbeque expert. You can see more from Larry at: http://thebbqgrail.com . He made tacos from one of these tenderloins. His were made with his favorite spices, as were mine, he folded, but I rolled my tortilla. It’s all good. Being they’re burritos but made with the tenderloin, Patti calls them “simply fancy”.
And these were good. The tender beef, smoky flavor of the mesquite wood was mixed with the chipotle, garlic and pepper crust. It was so tender it was hard to tell if you were chewing.
Remember that a recipe is simply an outline; it is not written in stone. Don’t be afraid to make changes to suit your taste.
Take it and run with it….
Enjoy,
Ken & Patti
http://datenightdoins.com
Yield:
8.0
Added:
Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 7:52pm
