Fajita and burrito bowl

Fajita, Pronounced as "fa-he-ta" is a tortilla, onion and bell pepper free recipe. If you like them, add them. If you add onions and bell peppes, it is called a burrito bowl in the Mexican fast food chain "Chipotle"You just have to put everything together in the taco recipe and eat it without hard or soft taco shells... Very filling and must say, super tasty... I would eat this all the time if I had the patience to cook so many varieties to put together one dish. My words won't explain the taste and freshness, you have to make it to know..Vegans can use vegan sour cream and cheese or totally eliminate it...so can diet conscious people.

This will take an hour to put together including cleaning...With left overs, it takes less than 10 minutes to arrange.. 

Ingredients:

1. Cooked Beans - Recipe below

2. Guacamole -  Recipe below

3. Tomato Salsa - Recipe below

4. Chopped vegetable - Red\green\yellow bell peppers, sweet corn, onions and tomato (seeded) [slightly saute them on a skillet]

5. Sour cream (reduced fat)

Cooked Beans:

Ingredients:

• Pink\black beans - 1 16oz can
• Onion - 1 big\2 small, finely chopped
• Garlic - 3 to 4 pods, grated or minced, if using paste, 1tbsp
• Coriander\Cilantro - a handful, finely chopped
• Oil -  2 tsp
• Dry oregano - 1 tsp
• Salt - to taste
• Jalapeno - 1, seeded and finely chopped

Method:

• Heat oil in a skillet on medium heat and add onions with a pinch of salt and saute.
• After onions turn transparent, add garlic and saute for a few seconds, add oregano and saute for a few seconds. Add jalapeno and saute for a few seconds.
• Drain and wash beans and add it to the skillet. Add a little water if it is sticking to the pan. Cook for a 5 minutes and it is done.

Guacamole:

Ingredients:

• Avocado - 1 (use hass avocado, it has the best taste)
• Garlic - 1 pod grated or 1/2 tsp paste
• Jalapeno - 1 seeded
• Lime juice - 2 tsp
• Cilantro\coriander - A handful
• Salt - to taste

Method:

• Cut the avocado into half, take the seed out and scoop the fruit out of the skin.
• Take all the ingredients in to a blender or a chopper and give it a whip till all of 'em mix well together. Guacamole is ready.

Tip:

• To choose a good avocado, just press it with your thumb lightly, it has to give slightly to know it is ripe enough for use before you buy it. Trust me, you will not want to use a raw avocado.
• To take the seed out, cut the avocado in to half vertically, take your knife hit the seed with the bottom sharp side of your knife, give it a slight turn and it comes out clean.
• DO NOT BUY RIPE AVOCADO IF YOU ARE NOT PLANNING TO USE IT THE SAME DAY OR THE NEXT, THEY GO BAD VERY FAST.
• You can not store anything made of avocado for more than a day even in fridge, so make it fresh as and when you need it.

Tomato Salas:

 

Ingredients:

 

• Plum tomato - 3 to 4 medium, finely chopped
• Green bell pepper - 1 medium, finely chopped
• Jalapeno - 1 or 2 depending on your taste, seeded and finely chopped.
• Onion - 1 medium, finely chopped
• Garlic - 3 pods, minced/grated or paste 1 to 2 tsp
• Cilantro- a handful, finely chopped
• Salt - to taste
• Oil - 2 tsp

Method:

• Heat oil in a pot on medium heat. Saute onion and garlic till onion gets transparent with some salt.
• Add bell pepper and jalapeno and saute for a minute.
• Add tomatoes, saute for a few minutes, put a lid on the pot and let it cook till it is well done. You can add water if you need. It has to be slightly watery than ketchup.
• Add cilantro and lime juice and salsa is ready to eat.

This salsa stores well, for upto 2 weeks in the fridge, so cook a big batch and eat it with rice, salad, tacos chips and whatever you want to try it with.

Method To put fahita together:


Layer beans, rice, salsa, guacamole, sour cream and cheese one after the other and just spread slightly sauteed corn, onion and green bell peppers on the side and fahita is ready to eat...