Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, fajitas!. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Fajitas are normally filled tortillas wraps made in Mexican and Tex-Mex culture. Fillings are usually chicken, beef or veggie but can contain anything you like - beans, fish, prawns and more. Slice the chicken breasts in half horizontally, then cut them into thin strips. Put them in a bowl, add the remaining ingredients and rub into the chicken with your hands.
Fajitas! is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Fajitas! is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have fajitas! using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Fajitas!:
- Make ready 4 chicken breasts, diced
- Get 2 red onions, finely sliced
- Get 2 red peppers, finely diced
- Take 2 heaped tbsp smoked paprika
- Take 2 tbsp ground coriander
- Take 1/2 tsp ground cumin
- Get 4 medium garlic cloves, crushed
- Take 8 tbsp olive oil
- Make ready 2 limes, juiced
- Make ready 8-10 drops Tabasco
- Prepare 1-2 red chillies (optional)
- Get To Serve
- Take 12 tortilla wraps
- Get 1 lettuce, shredded
- Make ready Grated cheese
- Take Greek yoghurt
Slice the chicken lengthways into long strips, roughly the same size as the pepper strips. Put the peppers, onion, and chicken into a bowl with the paprika and cumin. How to make the best fajitas. How to cook the perfect onions: Cooking onions in water at the start is a good cheat - it softens them without the risk of them catching and burning when frying in oil.
Instructions to make Fajitas!:
- Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6 and wrap the tortillas in foil.
- In a large bowl, mix the paprika, cumin, coriander, garlic, oil, lime juice and Tabasco together with a big pinch of salt and pepper
- Add the chicken, onion, pepper and chilli (if you’re using it) into the bowl and stir together with your hands. You can use a spoon, but it is a lot more difficult. You can also leave the mixture to marinate for one hour in the fridge, or you can cook straightaway.
- Heat a large skillet or wok until smoking hot, then add the mixture. Keep everything moving over a high heat for about 10 mins using a wooden spoon until the chicken is white all over and the onions/peppers are soft.
- To check the chicken is cooked, find the thickest part and tear in half – if any part is still raw cook until done.
- Put the tortillas in the oven to heat up for 8 minutes, and serve with the fajita mixture, shredded lettuce, cheese and yoghurt.
How to make the best fajitas. How to cook the perfect onions: Cooking onions in water at the start is a good cheat - it softens them without the risk of them catching and burning when frying in oil. How to roast peppers: Roasting peppers yourself and taking the time to peel off the skin will give them a smoky depth that a jarred pepper could never have. A fajita (/ fəˈhiːtə /; Spanish: [faˈxita] (listen)) in Mexican cuisine is any grilled meat that is usually served as a taco on a flour or corn tortilla. The term originally referred to skirt steak, the cut of beef first used in the dish.
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