cooking with kids fajitas

Cooking with kids: Fajitas

Mexican wraps to get the whole family in the kitchen - fill flour tortillas with marinated chicken and peppers

Ingredient

• 4 chicken breasts, cut into chunks
• olive oil, for frying

For the marinade

• 4 limes, juice only
• 2 tsp fajita seasoning
• 4 spring onions, finely sliced
• 1 fat garlic clove, crushed

For the salsa

• 1 red pepper
• ½ jar roasted pepper (we used Gaea Red Peppers Flame Roasted 290g)
• 1 small apple, peeled
• 4 ripe tomatoes
• ½ lime, juice only
• small bunch coriander, leaves picked
• chilli sauce, to taste (optional)

For the guacamole

• 2 very ripe avocados, halved and stone removed
• ½ lime, juice only
• grated cheese, to serve

To serve

• 6 - 8 tortillas (you can now get mini tortillas for kids)
• soured cream (optional)

Direction

Method

• STEP 1

  Grown-ups: Put the chicken and marinade ingredients in a bowl and cover. Put in the fridge for at least two hours.

• STEP 2

  Children: If your children are 5 or over, you can get them to roughly chop the pepper, roasted pepper, apple and tomatoes for the salsa using a good quality firm plastic knife or cutlery knife. Otherwise do this yourself. Younger children can pick the leaves from the coriander and mix them into the salsa.

• STEP 3

  Grown-ups: Tip the salsa ingredients into a food processor, along with the lime juice and a little seasoning and pulse until finely chopped. Take out 2 large spoons of the mixture for younger children, then add chilli sauce, if using, and pulse again to combine.

• STEP 4

  Children: Squeeze or spoon the avocado into a bowl and use a potato masher to mash it. Stir in the lime juice and some black pepper with a spoon. Lime juice can sting so grown ups may want to squeeze them for younger children.

• STEP 5

  Grown-ups: Heat a little olive oil in a frying pan and pour the contents of the chicken bowl into the pan. Cook for 5- 8 minutes or until the chicken chunks are cooked through.

• STEP 6

  Children: Put the grated cheese, salsa (for grown-ups and children), guacamole and sour cream in separate colourful bowls to put on the table.

• STEP 7

  Grown-ups: Heat the tortillas according to the pack instructions and put the cooked chicken in a bowl. Show children how to fill and roll their tortilla.

• STEP 8

  Children: Lay out your tortilla, choose your toppings, roll them up and eat!

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