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Passport & Plate - Fajitas

Mexico | Thursday, March 13, 2014 | 5 photos

To make fajitas for 5 or 6 hungry people you will need:
•Tortillas or sometimes we use lavash, it’s an Armenian equivalent for tortillas which you can easily find in Russian shops
•1 sweet pepper
•500 grams of field mushrooms
•1 big sweet onion
•Sour cream
•1 kg of meat (skirt steak or flank
steak)
For marinade:
•Extra virgin olive oil
•Apple vinegar
•Tabasco
•Spices (smoked paprika, black pepper, salt)
For guacamole:
•4 large avocados
•2 medium tomatoes
•1 sweet onion
•1 lime
•Salt
For salsa:
•4 large tomatoes
•A medium pinch of ground cumin
•1 red chilli
•1 lime
•Extra virgin olive oil
•2 cloves of garlic;
How to prepare this recipe
I advise you to cook fajitas in a company because it’s fast, entertaining and it connects people very well. So put on your aprons, put on some music and let he magic begin:
1) First of all we should marinate the meat. For marinade mix 8 table spoons of olive oil and 2 tbsp spoons of apple vinegar, add spices, a couple drops of tabasco or more if your friends like it hot.
2) Cut the meat into about ½ inch slices. Coat every peace with a small amount of marinade, salt and spices. Put all the meat into a bowl, cover it and let it rest while you preparing all the ingredients.
3) Put your griddle pan on a high heat. Halve and deseed pepper than cut it into thin strips. Peel, halve and slice your onion. Fry pepper and onion with a small amount of olive oil. Than cut mushrooms in a medium pieces and fry them too.
4) For salsa toast tomatoes on a griddle pan till they are slightly soften. Let them cool a little bit, peel them, roughly chop with coriander, garlic and chilli (if you do not fancy to burn your throat put the seeds from pepper away). Squeeze over a juice of one lime, add a lug of olive oil, a good pinch of salt and mix it.
5) For your guacamole peel and cut in large pieces avocados, chop fine tomatoes and onion and mix and crush it with fork or pestle. But don’t be too harsh on it, guacamole should have a nice chunky texture. Season it with salt and a good squeeze of lime juice.
6) Now it’s time for meat. Put your griddle pan on a high heat again and fry meat for one minute per side. When all meat is cooked cut it into smaller slices.
7) From this moment all your fajitas need is to be served and destroyed by a crowd of hungry friends. Put bowls with vegetables, meat, guacamole, salsa and sour cream (you can add I little beat of olive oil in it and season with paprika) on a table. Warm your tortillas up in a microwave or a warm dry pan and to them anything you like. ¡Buen provecho!