Tortilla with chicken and vegetables at home

Chicken meat, vegetables and herbs wrapped in a flatbread! Cooking this traditional Mexican dish at home is not difficult at all. And it won't take much time. Tortilla can be served as a main dish, or you can take it with you as a delicious and healthy snack.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 42 % 10 g
Fats 33 % 8 g
Carbohydrates 25 % 6 g
135 kcal
GI: 40 / 0 / 60

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 30 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    Prepare the products for making tortillas. Pre-wash and dry the chicken vegetables.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Cut the pepper into long strips.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Cut the tomato first into circles, and then also into strips.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Cut the chicken fillet into thin plates, then cut each plate into strips. Try to cut the strips across the fibers, so the finished meat will be softer.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Preheat the frying pan. Pour vegetable oil on it. Lay out the chicken. Fry the chicken for about 10 minutes on high heat with constant stirring. At the end of frying, add salt.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Preheat another frying pan. Spread the tortillas on it one by one, warming them on each side for a couple of minutes.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Make the sauce - add chopped garlic and pepper to the sour cream. Mix well.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Warm tortilla immediately smear the sauce in the center.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Lay the lettuce leaves. Put the chicken on them.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Put the peppers and tomatoes on top.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Gently roll the tortilla into a roll.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    You can serve a tortilla in the form of a large roll, or you can cut it into two parts.

We really love this kind of flatbread dishes with stuffing. Delicious and healthy homemade shawarma. Tortilla is a shawarma with a Mexican flavor. Due to the sour cream sauce, it turned out to be light and low-calorie.
The sauce may be different. The same sour cream can be mixed with any tomato sauce. You can take the good old mayonnaise and its mixture with ketchup, you can make mustard sauce. The lightest yogurt sauce. Add garlic, spices and lime juice to it.
In addition to pepper and tomatoes, they wrap in a tortilla: carrots, grated on a grater in long strips, onions, preferably red, cut into half rings, cabbage, finely chopped and mashed with hands, avocado, cut into long pieces. You can even do without chicken and just make a vegetable tortilla.
Also put a variety of greens in the tortilla.
Tortilla is served with various sauces: tomato, salsa or guacamole.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Tomatoes - 23   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream with 30% fat content - 340   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream with 25% fat content - 284   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream with 20 % fat content - 210   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream of 10% fat content - 115   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream - 210   kcal/100g
  • Sweet pepper - 27   kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Ground hot pepper - 21   kcal/100g
  • Chicken breast (fillet) - 113   kcal/100g
  • Tortilla - 286   kcal/100g
  • Lettuce leaves - 12   kcal/100g

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