Cooking With Kids: Fajitas
This lively and interactive recipe allows children to actively participate in the kitchen while creating a delicious and colorful meal together. From marinating the chicken to assembling their own personalized fajitas, this recipe fosters a fun and engaging cooking experience for the whole family. So gather around the table and enjoy making and devouring these tasty fajitas together!
— Constant Cookbook
Ingredients
- 4 chicken breasts , cut into chunks
- olive oil , for frying
- 4 limes , juice only
- 2 tsp fajita seasoning
- 4 spring onions , finely sliced
- 1 fat garlic clove , crushed
- 1 red pepper
- ½ jar roasted pepper (we used Gaea Red Peppers Flame Roasted 290g)
- 1 small apple , peeled
- 4 ripe tomatoes
- ½ lime , juice only
- small bunch coriander , leaves picked
- chilli sauce , to taste (optional)
- 2 very ripe avocados , halved and stone removed
- ½ lime , juice only
- grated cheese , to serve
- 6 - 8 tortillas (you can now get mini tortillas for kids)
- soured cream (optional)
Instructions
- Grown-ups: Put the chicken and marinade ingredients in a bowl and cover. Put in the fridge for at least two hours.
- Children: If your children are 5 or over, you can get them to roughly chop the pepper, roasted pepper, apple and tomatoes for the salsa using a good quality firm plastic knife or cutlery knife. Otherwise do this yourself. Younger children can pick the leaves from the coriander and mix them into the salsa.
- Grown-ups: Tip the salsa ingredients into a food processor, along with the lime juice and a little seasoning and pulse until finely chopped. Take out 2 large spoons of the mixture for younger children, then add chilli sauce, if using, and pulse again to combine.
- Children: Squeeze or spoon the avocado into a bowl and use a potato masher to mash it. Stir in the lime juice and some black pepper with a spoon. Lime juice can sting so grown ups may want to squeeze them for younger children.
- Grown-ups: Heat a little olive oil in a frying pan and pour the contents of the chicken bowl into the pan. Cook for 5- 8 minutes or until the chicken chunks are cooked through.
- Children: Put the grated cheese, salsa (for grown-ups and children), guacamole and sour cream in separate colourful bowls to put on the table.
- Grown-ups: Heat the tortillas according to the pack instructions and put the cooked chicken in a bowl. Show children how to fill and roll their tortilla.
- Children: Lay out your tortilla, choose your toppings, roll them up and eat!
Cook Time
10M
Prep Time
PT25M
Yield
Serves a family of 3-5 depending on ages
Nutrition
- Calories: 421 calories
- Fat Content: 10.8 grams fat
- Saturated Fat Content: 2.2 grams saturated fat
- Carbohydrate Content: 49.1 grams carbohydrates
- Sugar Content: 7.8 grams sugar
- Fiber Content: 4.6 grams fiber
- Protein Content: 31.7 grams protein
- Sodium Content: 0.7 milligram of sodium
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