Mexican Food....Your suggestions

wendyf_3

I'm a primary school teacher and have decided to have a mexican fiesta on Thursday to being our topic to an end. e have been studying Mexican culture and food.
Can anyone sugggest any suitable things to make that aren't too spicy as most of my pupils don't like spicy food. A bit of a problem i know!!
Any ideas would be a great help.
Thanks

skylight

I use chicken, stripped and coated in mild curry powder for Fajitas
Also mixed crunchy salad and cream fraiche on top of the salsa.
Rolled up in a tortilla and my kids love them (14,11,3 and 1)

Mind you, most primary kids are likely to turn their noses up at anything unless its deep fried and chocolate!

MMMMMmmmmmm Fajitas with stripped chicken in chocolate..................

arkonite_babe

make your own fajitas, but just use a wee bit of salt and pepper to season the chicken instead of the fajita spice. Salsa made from onion and tomato.

Mexican recipes HERE just cut the spices way down or use salt and pepper, or even try season all.

HTH

Jay-Jay_4

I've never made anything Mexican from scratch , we always use the Old El Paso stuff (don't know how authentic that is though).


My 6 year old likes enchiladas with melted cheese on and rice. We have Fajitas but these are spicier so put some sour cream and chive dip on and some grated cheese. Fajitas are good as she gets to make it herself and roll up the tortilla which has a certain novelty value

You could have some guacamole, salsa and sour cream dips with nachos.
You can pretty much buy all this stuff ready made....or would you prefer to make things properly?

arkonite_babe

Easy fajita spice mix I made myself cos I had no packets!

1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon paprika
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon cumin
2 teaspoons chili powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
3/4 teaspoon crushed chicken stock cube
1/2 teaspoon onion powder

Mix together in a small dish and add to chicken as you would with the packet variety!
I made sure my chicken strips had a good glug or two of olive oil on them before adding the spices, helps it stick and coat better!

Enjoy!

Mado

We all love "quesadillas" at home... also quite easy for presentation with kids.

Make the chicken like fajitas... not spicy with peppers and onions cut small (DD doesn't like them she thinks).
Then put a tortilla in a dry frying pan, sprinkle with grated cheese. When the cheese melts, remove and put a fresh tortilla, prinkle with cheese and put some of the chicken mixture. Put the other tortilla (with already melted cheese) on top and press to stick the lot.
Cut in wedges (like pizza) and serve with a dollop of natural yogurt(instead of sour cream), salsa (mild... chopped tomatoes!) and guacamole (mashed avo with lemon juice, salt and cream cheese).

wendyf_3

all of these ideas sound great.Will let you know which ones are a success with my class.
thanks again

Str4berr3

I went to this mexician restaraunt before and had this lovely dish with mix seafood with drizzled with loads of chocolate sauce and sprinkles of chopped chilli's ( I suppose you could cut out the chilli peppers! ).

Still need to try this one out on my kids. What d'you reckon - you think they would like the chocolate bit?

frogman_2

Interestingly enough, Mexicans use chocolate as an ingredient in a number of dishes - not least Chicken with Chocolate Mole sauce. Having just spent the last few months in deepest Texas, I can recommend the following menu Tortilla Chips with Tomato Salsa, followed by Tacos (choice of fillings: chicken, shrimp, beans&cheese) followed by Tres Leches cake made with surprise, surprise 3 types of milk! Of course, they might not be able to appreciate the Mexcian Martini but I think you'll deserve one!

Becles

I've been watching this series on UKTV as we're going to Mexico next year, so we're trying the dishes out at home first!
http://www.uktvfood.co.uk/?uktv=recipes.bySeries&seriesID=2671
Some dishes are quite mild, or you could reduce the chilli/spices.

I would get some raw chilli's too. Not hot ones, just the normal red and green ones. You can show the children what they look like and "dare" them to try them. There will probably be a couple of brave souls who will and it'll amuse the rest of the class!

Or get some of this and dare them to try it:
http://www.firebox.com/index.html?dir=firebox&action=product&pid=29

It's so hot, it makes you go bright red and sweat. Your mouth and lips tingle for ages after eating it. My two boys love it!

wendyf_3

Thanks to everyone who gave suggestions for my Mexican Fiesta with my class. It was a huge success. We had kids sangria, chicken and beef fajitas, mild chilli quesadillas and lots more.
They all stuffed themselves silly and went home a very happy class with a popular teacher.
Thanks again