Easy Mexican meal please

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Just been talking to a friend about Mexican food (she's making it for NYE) - she sort of told me how to do it but I didn't really follow tbh!

I'm talking basic fajitas or tacos using mince or chicken - what exactly do I need and what exactly do I do with it?!

Just thought it sounded like another easy meal to add to my repetoire!

TIA

I love Mexican Food!!

Guacamole, sour cream, salsa, chillies. Pour over nachos, sprinkle with cheese and grill. That is your starter!!

Buy taco shells. Add chilli con carne, sprinkle with cheese and heat in oven.

Or buy wraps and wrap the chilli in it and heat through.

DH cooks this usually and uses all the spices to cook from scratch. Delicious.

or you could cheat and buy the packet mix for the fajitas from Tesco's!

There will be lots of people who know how to do it properly.
Chicken breasts cut into pieces add chopped peppers and onions in a wok.
Add the sauce (from a jar) Old el paso or something. Mix it all together.

Put pack of fajitas in oven for 15 mins.

Get some sour cream as a dip and ajar of the salsa dip. and make a guacamole dip.

Thats it.

Also you can out some tortilla chips in a bowl with mozarella on the top and put them under the grill for a bit then put the salsa sauce on.

I am the worlds worst cook but nobody else had replied when I started typing. Sorry

Oh I love Mexican food and it is a doddle to make. Fajitas are my favourite (as described by Salsa - I like them with strips of steak too). And enchiladas (Jamie O has a recipe - I can write it for you later when the kids aren't giving me aggro).

Fajitas. Easy!

Chicken into strips of those mini fillets if you'
r efelling flush. Strips of pepper and onion. Mix of seasoning or 1/2 teasp grond coriander, 1/2 teaspoon. ground cumnin, 1 tsp of chillip powder. Fry chicken in wok, as it's looking good, (like for a stir fry) add spices, dry fry for a min, then add peppers and onions. Serve with flour tortillas, (dry fried in frying pan or in microwave) and sour cream and grated cheddar. Also guacamole or salsa if you fancy but neither neccesary if you ask me... Can also substitute beef for chicken and can use spices as rub on meat in advance if you're feeling organised. Takes ten mins of chopping an dgrating plus ten mins of cooking - honest.

Also Quesadillas are good. Basically flour torilla sarnies. Put anything you like in between them, including, essentialy actually, grated cheddar cheese or similar. (ie - Cold fajitas, salsa from cupboard with cheese, just cheese) then microwave or into the oven for a few mins until cheese is melted. Cos of cheese they just stick together to make pancake shaped-style sarnie, Tex mex cheese on toast. If you want you can then cut them into cake type slices and dip in anyhing you fancy at all, guac, sour cream, salsa whatever - Endless fingerfood possibilities here. My SIl is Tex and uses toritllas like bread as snacks for kids, including things like peanut butter blah, blah.

Hope you enjoy we love them.

Fajitas rule!!

Ds loves them and he is only 15months,what a sophisticated palate he has,i dont think i was eating them at his age!

Jamie O recipe was quesadillas not enchiladas (I didn't forget!) and Crarchit has already described it. Oooh I want fajitas now.

Marinade chopped chicken breasts in lemon juice and chilli.

Heat oven to 6 or 7 gas (but I long for electric oven )

Chop peppers and onion into same size as chicken pieces and fry til still a bit crisp. Remove from pan. Add chicken and fry on blazing heat, stirring constantly.

Plop veggies back in and add to taste cumin, chilli and paprika. Then the secret ingredient (which will make serious foodies curdle and froth at the mouth) a large blob of tomato ketchup. Add red kidney beans and spare lemon juice at will

Microwave plain flour tortillas for about 10 secs per tortilla. Whilst doing this, add large handful of chopped fresh coriander to pan.

Spoon mixture into middle bit of one side of tortilla. Fold other side over in manner of tucking someone up in bed (i.e. don't pull blanket all the way up) and then fold in sides, one after the other. Place in dish (teflon sheets are really great to sit them on if you can get hold of one) and sprinkle on either Montery Jack cheese or a mixture of Edam and cheddar. Stick in oven until cheese melts and a bit crispy

Serve with salad and soured cream (and refried beans of you are up to it). And guacamole lovely too

Refried beans. Ummmm. You can get them in tins, Old El Paso and Discovery brands i think, for starters. Looks like Dog food but taste fab. We put/paste them on tortilla chips followed by A) bottled jalapenos and grated cheese, whack under the grill and serve with sour cream, guacamole (essential this time) and salsa or b) yesterdays chill and all of a).

Sorry about typos. Who'd think I trained as a secretary ...and passed all typing exams in the days of carbon copies on type writers and no pcs and !

lol Cratchit - yup, looks like dogfood but v yummy (partly what I meant by if you're up to it!)

Isn't it weird. I love RBs but EVERY time I have them I think Ugggh dog food until they're hot and on my plate or in my mouth!

Now you're using Moterey jack, which is very professional IMO. Are you in the UK? and if so where od you get it? Is it horribley expensive and why's it different to Cheddar. Sorry for too many questions. Feeling like a toddler tonight.. or maybe it's the wine!

Lol! I am in the UK - you used to be able to buy it in Morrisons but they stopped it - but I have recently spotted it lurking on the deli in Tesco. Its like Edam so is more of a rubbery texture than cheddar (which is fatty and disappears when melted) - tastes stronger than edam though which is whay I mix edam with cheddar (actually my fave is smoked edam mixed with mature cheddar, but then I am a food philistine )