How do YOU make fajita?

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Making them tonight for dinner, it appears I have quite a specific way of making them.

Care you share you recipe's?

care TO share. oops.

cut up chicken breasts, peppers, red onions and mushrooms. Add some garlic and smoked paprika Mix with about a desert spoon of olive oil and tea spoon of chilli oil and leave to marinate for about half an hour.

Heat a griddle pan up as hot as possible and spread as one layer across the bottom (not piled up as means steams rather than cooks)

Whilst that is cooking, grate cheese, mash up avocado, heat tortilla and chop baby tomatoes with some parsley and mix tomatoes with salt and pepper. Put on creme freche or sour cream and serve.

Wheeeewww!

So, what is your magic recipe?

put out not "put on".

Also, serve all the accoutrements in small bowls of their own and not mixed up in one big one!!

tis the thread of typo's

I'm making them with minced beef tonight (hides) and Old el paso original spices (hides better). Add chopped red and green peppers, fry off, and add taco beans. Stew for HOURS and then chuck in tortillas with cheese and sour cream.

I'm so posh...

in my defense, my friend who religiously only uses home-made stuff was blown away by my fanjitas...

a fajita is the skirt meat of a cow. it's not chicken.

it used to be what poorer people ate as it's a normally tough cut of meat.

i marinate it overnight in the fridge in a bottle of Newman's Own Italian vinaigrette, then i put it in the oven and slow roast it at a lowish temp for a loooonng time.

serve it with roasted peppers, guacamole, cheese, sour cream and salsa to be rolled into tortillas.

with Mexican rice and refried beans.

Oooh dear! I also can't use emphasis and actually didn't know what a fajita actually was when posting my non fajita recipe.

I'll get my coat

oh, I do chicken ones too... with old el paso spices though

would love a truly authentic recipe though.

well, technically Expat is right, but....

chicken breasts
cumin
cocoa powder
cilanto
chile powder
paprika
dash of lime juice

fry on hight heat with peppers and onions

in large flour tortillas with salsa and sour cream

i make the best version my english self can of this prizewinner but not into enchiladas, with tortillas and other thingies as expat utters

I do mine like this I also make my own fajita mix, which is also on this page.

im also a chicken fajita girl,
and i also use old el paso spice mix, red onion and red and yellow peppers all quickly fried in a spoon of olive oil (blush)

Quick fajitas. I cut steak or chicken, peppers and onions into strips and fry with a tablespoon of peri peri seasoning. Serve with sour cream, cheese, salad and salsa. I sometimes do chilli-con carne but with tortilla instead of rice which is lovely.

Mine are more of a chicken wrap which I call fajita to fool the children. I chop carrot, courgette and mushroom up really small and add to chicken, onion, paprika and a stock cube (no added water - enough comes out in the cooking)

I have never seen a cow in a skirt

steak or chicken
fajita dry mix into bowl with meat, leave for an hour or more
stirfry lightly with peppers & onion

chop toms into small pieces with garlic and red onion and corriander and lemon juice for salsa

squidge ripe avacado with lime juice and some more garlic

crispy lettuce

creme fraiche

grated cheddar

warmed wraps

I personally put a little of each in a line in the middle of the wrap leaving a large gap at the bottom.
I fold up the bottom of the wrap first then fold in each side to make an envelope of deliciousness.

I'm with you Greyskull on the small strip in the middle. Always reminds me of a certain type of waxing technique for some reason. It always works though and you never look like a pig by not being able to roll it up.

It really is worth making the spice mix yourself rather than buy el paso, especially if you eat them quite regularly!

Also, the veggie using fennel instead of chicken is really fab (recipe is on my blog with the spice mix at blog.londonplains.com if you haven't got your own recipe already. You can even get the smoked paprika in the little red tins at Sainsburys now). Even non fennel eaters really like it and they fall into natural strips so were obviously made for fajitas.

I'm want one now and it's only 9am.

ooh I think we may have to have fajita's tonight...

Can I ask a stoopid question please? What is 'pulled pork'. Best Man emailed DH over Xmas to say he was enjoying hot pulled pork sandwiches. It was only because he added 'sandwiches' that we concluded he was not engaged in a sexual act

Always use those turkey fillets things to make fajitas - never knew it meant beef skirt.

A good splosh of oil, then fry off red onion and red peppers and the turkey, then sprinkle copious amounts of cumin, hot paprika and chilli flakes. Lots sea salt and pepper.

Serve it with tortilla, sour cream, guacomole, salsa and grated cheese.

This is dd's failsafe dinner (she cooks every Tuesday and Thursday now, we invariably get fajitas once a week and some kind of pasta the other day). However first time she made it she misread the instructions on the tortillas and put them in the microwave for 10 minutes as opposed to the oven. They were like poppadoms!

My mum uses the Old El Paso mix - I looked on the back of the packet and it is basically salt, cumin, paprika and MSG. She still swears by it.

I use that La Chinata hot paprika sold in the aluminium tins, is in the special foods bit in Saisnbos, not much more expensive than the regular spices.

pulled pork is pork cooked for hours until it becomes shredded pork.

Done by bbqing (smoking, not grilling), or slow cooking.

A pulled pork sandwich would be Southern bbq.

Cor that sounds lovely. Thank you. Lucky Best Man!