Fajita's

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Not exactly authentic but tasty Fajita's recipe:

For 2 people:

For the marinade / coating:

3-4 cloves of garlic
Juice of half a lime (or the whole thing)
1-2 tsp of ground cumin
1-2 tsp of ground coriander
0.5 tsp to 1 tsp of ground pepper (coarse - less if fine)
1/8 to 1/4 cup of flour (maybe less than that - I don't measure it)

Main bits:

1lb chicken breasts cut into thin strips
3 sliced bell peppers (1 red, 1 green and 1 yellow looks nice)
1 sliced onion

Serve with:

Guacamole, salsa and / or soured cream
Flour tortillas
Lots of beer (corona with a slice of lime in the neck of the bottle)


Method:

1) Add the flour, herbs, lime juice and garlic to a large bowl and mix until you get a paste. It's hard to say exactly how you want the paste but too thick and it will burn and fall off the chicken and too thin and it will all stay in the bowl - good luck

2) Add the strips of chicken and mix around loads. If you've got the time set it aside (covered and re-fridgerated) for about 1 hour.

3) Put a small amount of oil into a frying pan or wok and heat on high. When the oil / pan are nice and hot add the chicken mixture and stir fry until the chicken's cooked (depends on how thing you've sliced it - I do it pretty thinly so only need to fry the chicken for about 3-4 minutes). Add the peppers and onion and stir fry for another 2 minutes or so (a good time to heat the tortillas too!)

4) Serve wrapped in a tortilla with either guacamole, salsa, sour cream or chilli sauce (for the hardcore!)

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the joeato:

250g or so of non-faty meat, poultry is good
1 cup of rice
10 flour tortillas
1 tin spicy refried beans
1 tin chopped tomatos
chopped peppers (about 1 pepper's worth)
some grated cheese!
lots o' spices (take £20 to a halal meat center and return with an year's supply of everything you could want)
some kind of acid base (a citrus fruit juice or coke works well)

take the meat, cut into thin strips
take a big tupperware pot, pour in some of your acid, and some spices (e.g. coconut powder, cumin, chilli flakes, a crumbled chicken stock cube, paprika, garam masala)
put in the chicken, close the lid & slosh the pot about for a few mins - it'll stir the spices around & all over the meat, giving it a tasty edge
put the cup of rice into a big saucepan, put in a healthy dose of turmeric & coconut powder, stir, then add 2 mugs of water
bring the rice to the boil, and boil dry
meanwhile, get a frying pan, put a little oil (extra virgin olive oil, bien sur) in & fry your meat until thoroughly cooked. the timing shoudl (hopefully) add up so the rice & meat finnish at about the same time. add the meat top the rice, add the refried beans & sliced peppers.
mix
pour on the tin of tomatos & some healthy spice injection (something similar to what you used for the marinade). mix THOROUGHY.

10* [layer a portion in a tortilla, place some cheese on top, wrap the tortilla, & serve!]