Ramsey's Beef Fajitas

[Belmit]

Stolen straight from Gordon Ramsey's Fast Food, tonight I attempted beef fajitas with soured cream and guacamole, but without the soured cream because I forgot to put it on the shopping list. Oops.

The recipe is for 4 people so I made it up as I went along and probably made about enough for 2. I still ate the lot though. Only thing I left out was yellow pepper as there would have been too much otherwise. Could have used half red and half yellow but there's already too much faffing with this. Fast food my arse. About five minutes of actual cooking and 45 minutes of prep.


Ingredients

Beef steak.
Red pepper.
1/2 tsp ground cumin
1/2 tsp chilli powder
1/2 tsp paprika
Sea salt and black pepper.
3 tbsp olive oil.
2 plain tortillas.
Roughly torn coriander.

Guacamole:
1 medium ripe avocado.
Juice of 1/2 a lime.
1 garlic clove.
1/2 a red, deseeded chilli.
1 shallot.
1 plum tomato.
Handful of coriander leaves.


Prep:

Cut beef and pepper into strips.

In a small jar, mix the cumin, chilli powder, paprika, salt and pepper (I used cumin seeds and black peppercorns which I ground up). Throw half the mix over the beef and half over the peppers. Leave this to soak in.



Remove stone and skin from avocado, add lime juice and mash in a bowl with a fork. Add the finely chopped garlic, chilli, shallot, tomato and coriander and mix well, adding salt and pepper to taste. I threw the garlic in with the avocado and lime juice and crushed it at the start, then added the rest afterwards instead:




Cooking:

Put the olive oil in a wok and heat. Add the pepper and sauté until soft. Add the beef and cook for a couple of minutes.

"Warm the tortillas in a dry frying pan for about 10 seconds each side", or microwave them for a minute like I did.

Put beef, peppers, guacamole and a handful of coriander in tortilla. Wrap. Devour.



Delicious, if a little greedy to have two of these to myself.

[lostkat]

Good God, that guacamole alone looks DIVINE!!!! Might have to try that, if nothing else It does look really nice though

[Haly]

Oooh might have to try that with chicken
Guacamole looks great My old housemate made me some once when I managed to come in exhausted after the Notts meet to find her cooking mexican food, it was delicious

[leowyatt]

Very nice indeed, I make some chicken ones but cheated and used Old El Passo fajitas mix

[Pheebs]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm that looks goooooooood!

Will have to be making me some of that soon I m'thinks! Num num num!

[Belmit]

Just bought the ingredients to make the fresh guacamole again. Cost me the best part of £8, but there should be enough to make a fair amount! Scrummy.

[Muban]

I can't eat guacamole anymore *cries*

[Belmit]

[Joe 90]

4 people... 2 tortillas?

this maketh no sense.

[Belmit]

I didn't make the version for four people (which is what it is in the recipe book) - I made enough for two and ate the lot.