vrijdag 17 oktober 2014

Pimp my Dish! Spicy Mexican Chicken Wraps with Jeroen

This will be the first "Pimp my Dish" blog, in Pimp my Dish I will invite a friend of mine to help me cook one of their favorite dishes but in a slightly different way than they're used to. My first "guest" was Jeroen and his favorite dish was fajitas. I went online to find out what exactly the difference was between fajitas, wraps, tacos, enchiladas and a whole lot more.
Just to make it easy for everyone, I'm just going to name this dish Spicy Mexican Chicken Wraps.

This recipe is for two very hungry students, or three not so hungry students.

  • 400 gr chicken breast
  • 1/2 red pepper
  • 1/2 yellow pepper
  • 1 red onion
  • 4 cloves of garlic
  • 1 red chili
  • lettuce
  • greek yogurt
  • fresh or dried mint leaves
  • 1 spring onion
  • small can of tomato puree
  • 3 small tomatoes
  • water
  • cayenne pepper
  • salt
  • black pepper
  • 25ml tequila (they sell minis at most of the check outs at liquor stores)
For the tortillas (if you want to make them yourselves).
  • 300 gr flour
  • 175ml tepid water
  • 2 spoons olive oil
  • 2 ts baking powder
  • pinch of salt
slice 3 cloves of the garlic and the red chili. Mix this with the tequila, some salt, pepper and the cayenne pepper. This will be the marinade for the chicken. So if you have the time, do this de night/day before so the chicken can really absorb the flavor. But it's perfectly fine if you make it 30 minutes before dinner. Chop the chicken in small pieces, put it in the marinade and put this in the fridge for 30 minutes.

Now mix the flour, tepid water, olive oil, baking powder and salt and knead this for at least 5 minutes. Leave this in a warm spot for 30 minutes (cover it with a tea towel or something like that).

Preheat the oven to 170C/335F

Now is the perfect time to slice the lettuce, 3/4 of the red onion, red and yellow peper and the spring onion. You will eat this raw on your wrap, so put this is in cute bowls on the table. You can also make the greek yogurt with mint now: simply chop the mint very small or crumble it with your hands if you have dried leaves and mix it through the yogurt. This yogurt will give your wrap a hint of freshness (which you will need, because the wraps are very spicy).

After half an hour, slice the remaining 1/4 of the red onion and chop the last garlic clove, put some olive oil in a hot pan and fry these babies. Then add the chicken, while waiting for the chicken to be cooked, dice the tomatoes. When the chicken is no longer raw, add the tomatoes, tomato puree and some extra water so you have a nice sauce (if you want, you can add a stock cube but I think the chicken has enough flavor because of the marinade). Leave this on a low heat to simmer.

Now you're going to make your own tortillas. Try to divide the dough so you can make 6 to 8 tortilla's. Try to make them as flat as possible with a rolling pin.

Then take a large frying pan and make sure the pan is really hot (don't use any oil or butter and try not to burn yourself like I did).
Simply fry the tortilla on both sides for maybe a minute and then put it in the oven so that they will stay nice and warm. When you're done, bring everything to the table and enjoy your home cooked wraps!

enjoy!

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