Recipe

Cheerleading Chicken Fajitas

Serves

These spicy wraps are a tasty meal. Serve them to your mates when they come round to your house. You could prepare the fillings and get people to make up their own.

Ingredients:

  • 1 red pepper
  • ½ red chilli or ½ x 5ml spoon chilli powder
  • ½ small lettuce
  • 1 red onion
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 2 chicken breasts
  • 2×15ml spoons olive oil
  • 1×5ml spoon balsamic vinegar
  • 1×400g can of chopped tomatoes
  • 1×5ml spoon tomato puree
  • 2×5ml spoons dried oregano
  • Fresh black ground pepper
  • 6 flour tortilla wraps
  • 4×5ml spoons soured cream or low fat crème fraiche

Equipment:

  • Colander
  • Sharp knife x 2 *please get an adult to help you
  • Chopping board x 2
  • Garlic crusher
  • Measuring spoons
  • A wok or deep frying pan
  • Wooden spoon
  • Can opener
  • Metal spoon
  • Frying pan, microwave or oven to warm the tortilla wraps

Method:

  1. Wash the red pepper, chilli (if using fresh) and lettuce.
  2. Shred the lettuce
  3. Peel and chop the onion into long, thin strips.
  4. Cut the red pepper in half and scoop out the white pith and seeds. Cut the red pepper into long, thin strips.
  5. Peel and crush the garlic.
  6. Using a separate chopping board and sharp knife slice the chicken into thin strips.
  7. Finely chop the chilli (if using fresh).
  8. Heat the oil in a wok or a frying pan. Add the strips of chicken and stir-fry for 3 minutes. The chicken will turn from pink to white.
  9. Add the fresh or powdered chilli and stir for 1 minute.
  10. Add the garlic, onion and pepper and stir-fry for a further 3 minutes until they start to soften.
  11. Add the balsamic vinegar and cook for a few seconds, then add the chopped tomatoes, tomato puree and oregano.
  12. Season with black pepper and cook for about 4 minutes or until the mixture has thickened.
  13. Heat the tortilla wraps according to the packet instructions.
  14. Place some of the chicken mixture along the centre of each tortilla wrap, add some shredded lettuce and 1×5ml spoon sour cream.
  15. Fold the bottom of the tortilla wrap over first, to hold the mixture in, and then fold in both sides.

Top tips

Use low fat crème fraiche or guacamole as alternatives to soured cream.

You could also add mushrooms to the fajita mixture, sautéed lightly with the onion and red pepper.

Add some fresh, chopped cherry tomatoes or thinly sliced strips of cucumber with the lettuce to increase the number of vegetable portions.