Recreating the “Macnocheeto” (or, rolling up soy curls, beans, rice, pasta and BBQ sauce in a tortilla)

Ingredients

• The tortilla(s) of your choice, plus:

For the Mac ‘N Rice

• 1 cup spelt pasta shells
• 1 cup brown rice
• 3.5 cups filtered water
• 2 T earth balance
• 2 T nutritional yeast (powder)
• Iodized sea salt (to taste)

For the beans

• Olive oil
• Jalapeno, diced
• Onion, diced
• Garlic, minced
• Mix of small white beans and red kidney beans, soaked for a couple of hours
• Bay leaf
• Filtered water
• Lemon juice (fresh)
• Iodized sea salt (to taste)

For the soy curls

• Half bag of Butler Soy Curls
• 2.5 cups of filtered water
• Butler Chik-Style Seasoning

For the BBQ sauce

• Ketchup
• Maple syrup
• Liquid smoke
• Ground ginger

Instructions

For the Mac ‘N Rice

• Add pasta, rice, water and earth balance to the rice cooker. Check on it at 20 or 25 minutes. Add nutritional yeast with about five minutes left for cooking. Salt to taste.

For the beans

• Saute onion, garlic and jalapeno in olive oil in the pressure cooker.
• Add beans and bay leaf and enough water to cover the beans.
• Bring to pressure and cook at high pressure for 13 minutes
• Release pressure naturally.
• Add salt, to taste

For the soy curls

• Soak soy curls in water for 5 – 10 minutes
• Drain the soy curls and place in a hot skillet
• Add Chik-Style Seasoning and saute until lightly browned

For the BBQ sauce

• Add all ingredients to a saucepan (use as much or as little of each item, to your own taste)
• Heat for five minutes

• Add the pasta and rice, beans, soy curls and BBQ sauce to a tortilla.
• Wrap, slice and serve!

It practically brought tears to my eyes. Tears of joy!  I recreated one of the most obnoxious, delicious things I’ve ever eaten!