Taco Fajita seasoning

misty

I make my own salsa but with fresh tomatos rather than tinned.
Toms/red onion/spring onion/lemon or limejuice/garlic/fresh chillis with seed or without for milder - yum
My wraps always fall apart though - think it's cause I over fill them.

Lillibet_2

Oscar wrote:

Lillibet

As I said hubby cooks we just eat. I not really up on where spices come from but the spice he uses is good and tasty.....I'm easy to please especially when the food its getting cooked and put down in front of me!!!!!

Hi Oscar

Sorry, just realized how antogonistic my last post must have sounded:o and not a word about welcome to old style or anything:o ! I should be hung on my own washing line & sprayed with hot vinegar for such rudeness:eek: ! So sorry, hope you haven't taken offence & hope to see yoou back here soon & hope your hubby keeps up the hard work;)

chucklingbunny

Here's a link to a copy of the Taco Bell Chicken Fajita Seasoning Mix:

http://topsecretrecipes.com/recipes/tbelmix2.htm

Hope it's useful.

Oh, the above site is worth browsing as it has a lot of 'copy' recipes.

WeirdoMagnet

I make up our fajitas as I go along. I did buy some 'fajita meals' a couple of months ago (when they were on special!) but the spice mix and the salsa tasted 'chemically' to me, so we binned it.

If I think about it in time, I marinade the veg (onions, courgettes, peppers) with some olive oil, garlic, herbs, paprika, and then chuck them all in to fry when it's time.

For the salsa, I chop fresh large toms (currently from Lidl @ 1/2 price!), add some olive oil, maldon salt, garlic & herbs. I love it, and make extra to eat (cooks prerogative!) while I'm cooking!

The tortillas were on BOGOF at Safeway/Morrisons a couple of weeks ago, but not sure if they are now.

Oh, and to finish off, use a dollop of sour cream!

PhilCCFC

Just started making my own salsa and it's rapidly becoming one of my favourite side dishes, takes quite a while to prepare but that's ideal when the soap opera's on on :rolleyes:

4 large tomatoes, de-seeded and chopped into small cubes
2 red chilli's - large ones chopped very finely (reduce if you're a wuss !)
Juice of 1 lime
1 red onion, chopped finely
2 ripe avocados, scooped out and chopped into 1cm cubes
2 tablespoons of olive oil
loads of chopped coriander

Make this a day or so in advance, leave it in the fridge and mix it occasionally. Take it out and serve away with whichever dish takes you fancy plus loads of cooling :beer:

MATH

Tortillas are on bogof at tesco at the mo.

For my "Fushion" tortillas ie a bit chinese and a bit mexican I fry off some cubed chicken breast, onions, bell peppers, mushrooms and cougette then toss trhough a jar of sweet'n'sour cooking sauce and heat through. While that is boiling I shred lettuce, tomato and cucumber and put a handfull in each tortilla. Add a splot of the sweet'n'sour mix and roll up.

Bog standard chill is also good is you add some lettuce, grated cheese and a splot of sour cream. I always double up the chilli if we are having chilli con carne so i have some to freeze for tortillas or jacket potatoes the week after. HTH

Chipps

Asda sell little sachets of the spice mixes (own brand) quite cheaply.
Sorry, I can't say HOW cheaply because there is no asda near us, but I saw them when I visited my daughter & stocked up.
(no, she doesn't live in Asda - I meant when we went shopping!)

bugs

Tortillas are so quick and easy to make I could cry at the amount I used to spend on them (BOGOF or no). Plus you avoid the HVO as well. I regularly knock up a batch while the chilli is cooking, and they freeze well too.

I have put a recipe on here - http://www.downsizer.net/Projects/Cookery/Bread_Making/ - it's the first one on the page and there's a pic too - but this week I tried a half and half mix with maize flour and wheat flour - the taste of the maize flour is lovely but it's very hard to roll out if you use all maize. They were most successful and I highly recommend it as a variation.

Chilli wise I always add a bit of chocolate to my chillis for colour and depth of flavour..cocoa powder can be a bit...powdery...

Oscar

Lillibet

I am really thick skinned so no offence taken and who knows if I visit enough I may even be temped to try and cook. I am interested in making bugs tortillas..

bugs

Have you tried the recipe for the pizza dough on that site?

Lillibet_2

Oscar wrote:

I am interested in making bugs tortillas.

Come on Oscar, there's old style and then there's just plain Jungle torture:eek: :eek: