Mexican Fajitos in Tortilla

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare all the ingredients.

2. Step 2:

   

   Let's start with making the dough for tortillas. Mix the dry ingredients in a deep bowl first. Then pour warm water and mix. At the end, add 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil and knead the dough well. Tortilla is a unleavened flatbread made of wheat flour, similar to the usual pita bread, often used in Mexico (and not only) instead of bread, and also serves as the basis for cooking other dishes, such as burritos, various casseroles.

3. Step 3:

   

   In general, a universal tortilla in which you can wrap your favorite foods and make, for example, homemade shawarma. The dough turns out soft, elastic, not clogged with flour. It took me about 5 minutes to knead. Put the dough in a bag so that it does not get hot. Let him rest for 20 minutes.

4. Step 4:

   

   Let's prepare the filling. The meat (I have a pork shoulder, you can replace it with chicken or beef) must be pre-marinated, but first it needs to be cut into steaks, then into strips of approximately the same size. Put it in a bowl.

5. Step 5:

   

   Wash the lime and cut it in half. Squeeze the juice of half a lime on pork (you can replace it with the usual lemon). Add 2 tsp dry garlic and 0.5 tsp cumin if desired. Mix with your hands. Add 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil.

6. Step 6:

   

   Finely chop the burning red pepper, sprinkle with salt and chop again. Then mash the flat side of the knife into a puree. Add the crushed pepper along with the juice to the pork and mix well, make a so-called massage so that all the spices and pepper marinate the meat well.

7. Step 7:

   

   Peel the red onion and cut it in half. Then cut each half into slices. Wash the Bulgarian sweet pepper, cut in half, peel from the seeds and cut into these strips.

8. Step 8:

   

   Cock's tail, aka "Pico de Gallo" - a chic hot sauce. For him, cut the peeled red onion into small cubes. Finely chop the red hot pepper to the onion. A small bunch of cilantro is also chopped finely. Mix everything in a deep bowl.

9. Step 9:

   

   Squeeze the juice from the 1st lime. At the same time, the onion will become softer to taste.

10. Step 10:

    

    Cut the tomato into thin half rings, then into strips and into small cubes. Transfer to a bowl. Add a little sugar - this slows down the effect of hot pepper on the tongue.

11. Step 11:

    

    Mix well. The sauce is ready.

13. Step 12:

    

    Now let's make tortilla cakes. Put the dough bun on a surface dusted with flour. Make a sausage and divide the dough into 5 parts.

14. Step 13:

    

    Then roll out each piece with a rolling pin into thin cakes with a diameter of about 20-25 cm .

15. Step 14:

    

    Put one tortilla in a well-heated dry frying pan. Fry for about a minute on each side. Focus on the color of the tortilla. It should be pale with small toasted spots. If overexposed, the cake will become stale. I usually fry one tortilla, and at this time I roll out another. Very convenient.

16. Step 15:

    

    Put the finished cake on a sheet of foil. Do the same with the others. Cover the finished tortillas with a layer of foil so that they remain warm when serving.

17. Step 16:

    

    Pour 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil into the frying pan on which the tortillas were cooked and warm up well. Toss the chopped onion and sweet bell pepper. Fry on high heat, stirring constantly, so that the vegetables are appetiingly slightly burnt in places. Put it in any container.

18. Step 17:

    

    Next, pour about 1 more tablespoon of oil into the same pan and put the meat. Fry it just as quickly.

19. Step 18:

    

    Meat cannot be fried together with vegetables, different cooking times.

20. Step 19:

    

    Now add pepper and onion to the meat and warm it up well.

21. Step 20:

    

    All ingredients are prepared! Put the filling on the cake, sprinkle with chopped coriander.

22. Step 21:

    

    Put the Pico de Gallo sauce next to it and sour cream separately. At the same time, each of the household or guests will put the necessary portion of hot sauce and sour cream on the filling himself.

23. Step 22:

    

    Fajitas with pork is ready. Enjoy your meal.