Fajitas!

Hey I’ve been trying to figure out what I can write about that is interesting and doesn’t require too much effort from me, so bam! I’m going to start writing up my recipes.

If any of you freshmen want a word of advice from someone who’s been here for 2 years now; move out of student halls as soon as you can and organise meals with your housemates. If you get your act together and everyone chip in the fair amount you’ll save a tonne of money and cooking for other people is so much more fun that just cooking for just yourself.

First up, here’s a little tweak on the classic fajita recipe.

Ingredients (Makes 4 17px fajitas)

Fajita, seasoning mix and salsa (Just get one of those El Paso packs or similar)

500g chicken breast

3 peppers (red or yellow)

A splash of oil

A block of cheddar

Before you do anything, preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Cover a baking tray in tinfoil, place the peppers intact on the tray and drizzle with oil. Put into the oven for 25 minutes, turning 3 times. You want the skins to go quite black.

While they’re cooking cover another tray in tinfoil. Slice down the chicken breasts making long strips and place on the tray. Cover evenly with the seasoning pack and wait until the peppers have been in for 10 minutes, then put the chicken in the oven for 25 minutes. (Wash your chopping board now!)

When the peppers are black all over take them out of the oven and somewhere to cool. Pick them up one at a time and place them on your cutting board. (Be careful they will be hot as all hell and pouring out boiling water). Using a knife and fork peel the peppers, scoop out the insides, peel them and cut them into long strips. The skin should just slide off effortlessly but expect to make a fair bit of mess; keep some kitchen role handy. Leave the slices on a plate.

Grate a tonne of cheese and keep that handy, then pierce the fajita pack and put it in the microwave ready. They only take 45 seconds to warm up, so don’t turn it on until the chickens ready.

When the chickens ready it’s just a case of assembling the things. Lay a strip of chicken and peppers down the middle of a fajita and add cheese and salsa to taste. Fold them up and enjoy!