Build your own Fajitas

Prep time: 20 min / Cooking time: 10 min

Serves 4.

INGREDIENTS:

  • For the fajita tomato sauce:

  • 100g tomato passata

  • 1 tsp fajita seasoning

  • 1 tsp dried herbs

  • 1 tsp garlic powder or 2 chopped garlic cloves

  • Salt & pepper

  • For fajita filling:

  • 400g can black beans, drained

  • 1 small red onion, cut into thin wedges

  • 1 red pepper – cut into strips

  • 1 yellow pepper – cut into strips

  • ½ tsp garlic powder or 1 chopped garlic cloves

  • 1 lime – juice only

  • A small bunch of coriander chopped

  • 8 Flour tortillas

  • Serve with grated cheese, lettuce, tomato salsa, pea-camole and sour cream with chives

METHOD:

1. Prepare all your vegetables: cut onions into thin wedges and cut peppers into strips. If using fresh garlic you will need to peel the clove and then finely chop.

2. For the tomato sauce: put the passata in a bowl, add the dried mixed herbs, garlic powder, fajita seasoning, and seasoning, and mix well.

3. Heat oil in a frying pan and add pepper strips and onion wedges, and cook until soft.

4. Add garlic and cook for a further 1 minute.

5. Add black beans and cook for 2 minutes.

6. Add tomato sauce, lime juice, and chopped coriander and cook for a further 5 minutes until everything is hot.

7. Warm tortillas in a microwave (following manufacturer instructions) or a low oven, then wrap them so they do not dry out.

8. Put warm tortillas, fajitas vegetable mix, shredded lettuce, pea-camole, sour cream with chives, grated cheese and tomato salsa in the middle of the table and have fun building your own fajitas.

TIPS:

If you do not have tomato passata you can make your own tomato sauce by lightly cooking some cherry tomatoes in some oil and crushing them with a potato masher or fork; it will be chunkier but delicious.

You can add more fajita seasoning or chilli or any other herbs (fresh & dried) that you like to the tomato sauce.

This recipe will work fabulously with chicken or beef strips (just cook in the pan before adding the vegetables) or different types of beans.

Swap veggies around to your family favourites, pretty much any veg will work well here.

Super child-friendly recipe if you would like to get the children involved, with chopping and then building their own fajitas once all cooked.

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