Taco Bell Superman Burrito Recipe

The Superman is not on Taco Bell's menu. It is a secret-menu order: a Cheesy Double Beef Burrito with potatoes, sour cream, guacamole and crispy tortilla strips added. This home version rolls seasoned beef, orange rice, nacho cheese, crisp roasted potatoes, guacamole and crushed chips into four large tortillas, in about 45 minutes.

What the Taco Bell Superman burrito is

Mashed explained the order in December 2022: start with a Cheesy Double Beef Burrito and have sour cream, guacamole, extra potatoes and crispy tortilla strips added inside. It is a customer's combination, not an item with its own name at the counter, so it has to be ordered by its parts.

The base burrito has a page of its own on this site, the cheesy double beef burrito, with Taco Bell's description of what goes into it: seasoned beef, seasoned rice, nacho cheese sauce, a three-cheese blend, sour cream and crunchy strips.

This recipe is a reconstruction of that order. One burrito comes to about 855 calories by USDA figures, and MakeFoodLovely is not connected with Taco Bell.

Recipe

Taco Bell Superman Burrito

A home version of the Superman, a Taco Bell secret-menu order — seasoned beef, seasoned rice, nacho cheese sauce, crisp potatoes, sour cream, guacamole and crunchy tortilla strips in a large flour tortilla. Four burritos.

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Prep

15 min

Cook

30 min

Total

45 min

Serves

4

Cuisine

Mexican-American

Ingredients

• For the potatoes:
• 12 ounces frozen diced potatoes
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• For the beef and rice:
• 12 ounces ground beef (85% lean)
• 1 1/2 tablespoons taco seasoning
• 1/3 cup water
• 1 1/2 cups cooked long-grain white rice
• 1 tablespoon tomato paste
• 1/2 teaspoon paprika
• For the burritos:
• 4 burrito-size flour tortillas
• 1/2 cup nacho cheese sauce (warmed)
• 1/2 cup shredded Mexican-style cheese blend
• 1/4 cup sour cream
• 1/2 cup guacamole
• 1 ounce tortilla chips (crushed, about 1/2 cup)

Instructions

1. Heat the oven to 425°F. Toss the frozen potatoes with the oil and the salt, spread them on a baking sheet and roast for 20 to 25 minutes, turning once, until golden and crisp.
2. Brown the beef in a skillet over medium-high heat for 5 to 6 minutes, breaking it up finely. Pour off the fat, add the taco seasoning and the water and simmer for 3 to 4 minutes, until saucy.
3. Warm the rice with the tomato paste, the paprika and 2 tablespoons of water in a small pan, stirring, until hot and evenly orange.
4. Warm the tortillas in a dry skillet for 15 seconds a side. Spread 2 tablespoons of nacho cheese sauce down the middle of each, then add a quarter of the rice, the beef, the potatoes and the shredded cheese.
5. Top each with 1 tablespoon of sour cream, 2 tablespoons of guacamole and a quarter of the crushed chips. Fold in the sides and roll the burrito up tightly.

Nutrition

Calories:

855

Calculated from the ingredient quantities above using the USDA FoodData Central database, then divided by the number of servings. It is an estimate and will vary with the exact products you use.

The additions that make a Superman burrito

• Potatoes. Frozen diced potatoes roast to crisp cubes in the time the beef takes. They go in hot, straight from the oven.
• Guacamole. Two tablespoons a burrito. Bought guacamole is fine; for a quick one, mash a ripe avocado with a squeeze of lime and a pinch of salt.
• Crunch. Crushed tortilla chips stand in for the crispy strips. They go in last, on top of the sour cream and guacamole, away from the hot cheese sauce.

Rolling a burrito this full

A 10-inch tortilla holds all of it if the filling is laid in a line down the middle and the tortilla is warm. A cold tortilla cracks. Fold the two sides in first, then roll from the bottom, pulling the filling back toward you as you go.

For a burrito that stays shut, set it seam side down in the hot, dry skillet for a minute.

Seasoned beef and nacho cheese

The beef is the one used in every Taco Bell copy here, with a packet seasoning or this site's Taco Bell seasoning. Of the homemade seasoning, use twice the amount in the card. The nacho cheese can come from a jar or from the Taco Bell cheese sauce.

Smaller, and made ahead

For a smaller burrito, halve the beef and leave out the shredded cheese. The beef, rice and potatoes keep three days in the refrigerator; reheat them, crisp the potatoes in a hot pan and roll the burritos to order.

Another burrito with a crunch inside is the Beefy Crunch Burrito.