Lunch

Pork Carnitas-Style Burrito Bowl

Name: Pork Carnitas-Style Burrito Bowl
Prep time: 25 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 1 serving
Ingredients: 170 g Pork tenderloin; 130 g Cooked brown rice; 80 g Black beans, tinned and drained; 50 g Sweetcorn, tinned and drained; 60 g Tomato salsa; 50 g Little gem lettuce; 40 g Greek yogurt, 0% fat; 5 g Rapeseed oil; 1 tsp Ground cumin; 1 tsp Smoked paprika; A good squeeze Lime juice

Pork tenderloin cooked with cumin and orange until it shreds, over brown rice with black beans, sweetcorn and salsa. 52 g of protein for 573 kcal.

Calories: 573kcal
Protein: 52g
Fat: 12g
Carbs: 62g

Per serving, makes 1. 25 minutes of work. Published 8 September 2026.

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Milk

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Ingredients

Pork tenderloin170 g
Weighed raw. The same piece weighed after cooking has lost water, so the protein per gram is higher and the total would come out about a quarter over.
Cooked brown rice130 g
Cooked weight.
Black beans, tinned and drained80 g
Drained weight.
Sweetcorn, tinned and drained50 g
Drained weight.
Tomato salsa60 g
Little gem lettuce50 g
Greek yogurt, 0% fat40 g
Standing in for soured cream at under a third of the calories.
Rapeseed oil5 g
Ground cumin1 tsp
Smoked paprika1 tsp
Lime juiceA good squeeze

Method

Cut the pork into 4 cm chunks and rub it with the cumin, paprika and a pinch of salt.
Brown it in the oil over a high heat for four minutes, then add 100 ml of water, cover, and simmer for twelve minutes until a fork pushes in with no resistance.
Take the lid off, turn the heat up and let the water cook away until the pork is frying in its own juices again. Shred it with two forks in the pan so it picks up the crisp bits.
Warm the beans and sweetcorn together. Rice in the bowl, then the pork, beans, corn, shredded lettuce and salsa, the yogurt and lime over.

Worth knowing

Real carnitas is pork shoulder cooked in lard. Tenderloin gives most of the texture at less than half the fat, provided you let the water fully cook off at the end. Stop early and it is boiled pork.
A burrito bowl is the burrito without the tortilla, which is about 180 kcal saved and the reason it is in a bowl.

Other lunch recipes that share ingredients with this one, or every lunch between 450 and 600 calories a serving.

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Macros are calculated from the weights listed above using standard food composition values, and will shift with your own brands and measuring. Weigh what you can. This is a recipe, not dietary advice. The full health disclaimer is below.