Fajitas – or André´s signature dish during his uni years. I know what you’re thinking – regular people´s uni years meals were canned ramen noodles at best, but it seems I am marrying a rare specimen of a man who learned how to do this tex-mex dish for his fellow students, while the rest of us were eating scraps. Fast forward many years – André and I are dating and he’s making me fajitas. I remember the first time very well because we had a silly fight. As we did the second time he made me fajitas. I was afraid they were cursed at this stage, but soon learned how to enjoy spiciness on the fajitas and not in snarky comments that would make us argue. Almost eight years later it is a dish I love. We make it when we have big dinners and we make it for the two of us and proceed to eating it for days. It’s a hard dish to photograph so I never tried until today, but I thought it was high time you also got this recipe.
Ingredients
two big onions
six cloves of garlic
two big red peppers
two big green peppers
1kg of chicken breast (cut into strips)
400g of tomato pulp or chopped tomatoes
100 ml olive oil
500g of canned butter beans
200mg of grated cheese
For the seasoning mix the following in a small bowl:
two tbsp cornstarch
four tsp chilli powder
four tsp salt
two tsp smoked ground paprika
two tsp ground cumin
a tsp cayenne pepper
(optional garlic and onion powder)
Instructions
1. Chop the two onions and fry along with the crushed garlic cloves until golden in the olive oil. Next, add the chicken and fry until slightly golden, eventually adding the seasoning.
2. Slice the peppers and add them to the chicken. Add the tomato pulp and let it all simmer for about 15 minutes or until the peppers are slightly tender.
3. Add the beans and cook for another 10 minutes or until the consistency of the fajitas is as desired.
4. Serve on corn tortillas and top with the grated cheese (and optionally with some cooked rice if you crave some extra carbs).
No Comments