Breakfast Chimichanga and an indian breakfast burrito

Ever since I had a sorry chimichanga-of-a-meal at a particular mexican restaurant in Lecco, making one for myself was the only way to set the world right again. The "chimi" as you may or may not know, is simply a fried burrito. It is tex-mex food in cowabunga proportions, not some piddling triangle, and I've had everything from beans, rice, lettuce and meat as a filling or just beans, rice and cheese - heavy on the beans. For this one here it seemed only natural to add a fried egg and chopped bacon. I hadn't yet eaten breakfast. Together with a salad, salsa, sour cream (greek yogurt actually) and homemade guacamole, I produced enough gigabytes of energy to mow the lawn, mop the floors, do the laundry, beat the carpets, walk the dogs and fix dinner with time left over to bath and dry the little mutts before MotH came home. What a day. Sorry, but I can no longer accept requests for domestic help or dogsitting.

Sometimes I like to repeat myself

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The following day would've been another chimi in the fryer but I didn't want to stray very far from a recipe using flattened rice. Also known as beaten rice or flake rice amongst a variety of other names, I first learned about this product from Ann in her recipe for poha. The dish sounded intriguing with the addition of onions, hot peppers, ginger, cumin, mustard seeds, peanuts, tumeric, etc, so imagine my surprise when I found pawa flake rice at Kathay food store in Milan. I can't get enough of ethnic flavors, and while indian cuisine is still very foreign to me, from what I've tasted so far, it is extremely satisfying and delicious.

The recipe is fast and easy to make since it is essentially rehydrating the rice flakes and cooking it with the rest of the components. I started digging into the bowl as a late breakfast when it dawned on me that adding an egg and rolling it all up in a piadina (italian tortilla) wasn't straying too far from its category as a breakfast/brunch item. Poha breakfast burrito?