Chili Sauce Recipe!

Chilli Sauce!

As if Chicken Fajitas weren't good enough already, putting chili sauce on them is even better! haha!

My mom is the best at making it. Mine doesn't even compare, but this is how we make it!

INGREDIENTS:

1. 4 tablespoons Butter or Margine.
2. 3 tablespoons Flour
3. 3 cloves Garlic (minced)
4. 1 medium Onion (finely chopped)
5. 1 teaspoon Salt
6. 1 teaspoon Cumin
7. 2 ripe Tomatoes (coarsely chopped)
8. 2 cups Water
9. 1 can mild Green Chillies or Jalapeños (chopped and to taste)

DIRECTIONS:

Saute onion in margarine about 5 minutes. Add the garlic. Cook another minute. Add the flour. Cook 5 minutes, stirring often. You want this roux to get nice and brown. Add the rest of the ingredients, then whisk,Simmer 30 minutes.

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How to Roast Green Chillies!

How to Roast Green Chillies!

My mouth waters every time I see this picture! haha! When I lived in New Mexico my family had a friend, Joe, who we called our "Green Chili Man." He would have us for dinner and roast us some green chillies. Once we moved from there to Tennessee the chillies or jalapeños were never the same! Not even the mexican restaurants satisfied our hungry for hot authentic mexican food, which chillies are used a lot for. We use to have a bunch shipped to us but it is really expensive to do so. My birth mom, Christa, who lives in Oklahoma, she saw some new mexican chillies at her whole foods store and she sent us all some! Now I can have some spicy everything!! It's even good on steak! haha! 

Heres how to roast green chillies.

DIRECTIONS:

1. Wash and put a little slit with a knife in the green chili.
2. Put your oven on Broil. (If you dont have a broiling pan like i do just take a cookie sheet and put some foil on it)
3. Lay your chillies on the sheet. Spread them out evenly and don't let them touch.
4. Put them in the oven for 5 minutes and then flip them over. (they will look like they are getting burned, thats ok..they need to look that way. like in the picture above)
5. Once they are done, let them cool down and then peel them. (if you roasted them long enough they will peel really easy!)
6. Pull the stem off and then peel the skin. 

before peeled and stemmed

after peeled and stemmed

Now what do you do with them? You chop them up and freeze it! Put them chopped chillies in a Gallon sized ziplock bag. Spread it out where it lays flat and freezes that way. So, when you need some all you have to do it break off a piece of it.

what is looks like all chopped up.


I will be making a salsa recipe coming up soon where you can use this green chili (or you can replace it with jalapeños is you want), so be on the look out for that! You can put this on Steak, Chicken Fajitas, Pork, pretty much ANYTHING! lol 



WARNING! DO NOT TOUCH YOUR EYES WHEN ROASTING, PEELING, OR CHOPPING GREEN CHILLIES! WASH HANDS THROUGHLY AFTER AND MANY TIMES AFTER!

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Guacamole Recipe

Guacamole

I have never made Guacamole on my own. I was always my mom's taste tester because she can't eat it. I decided just to make up my own recipe. I thought, "surely it can't be THAT hard." Josh was the taste tester. He said it was a lot like the restaurant Chillies. That's good, right? haha! I did not have any tomatoes so I left them out. So here's how I made my Guacamole.

INGREDIENTS:

1. 3/4 Avocados. (halved, pitted, and peeled)
2. 1 Lime. (Juiced, or you can use the bottled lime juice)
3. 1 tablespoon of Cilantro. (I used a little more then that, but make sure you chop it finely)
4. 1/3 cup of Red Onion. 
5. 1 Garlic Clove. (mashed and chopped. just use a big spoon to mash after you chop it)
6. Salt. (to taste)

DIRECTIONS:

1. Mash up your Avocados with a fork. Leave it a little chunky.
2. Add you Lime juice, Cilantro, Red Onion, Garlic and Salt. Mix it together. (I usually add one at a time, mix, then add another.)
3. Find a taste tester! haha. Add salt and the lime juice according to how you like your Guacamole to taste.

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Chicken Fajitas

Chicken Fajitas 

I am from New Mexico. I have been raised on the BEST mexican food there is. The closest you will find to actual food in Mexico. I have had both. I like both. They do have their differences but who cares! As long as its spicy, am I right? haha! This is my mom's recipe, and hers will always be better, but I like to think mine is pretty close!

INGREDIENTS:

1. 2 tablespoons of Lime Juice
2. 1 teaspoon of Salt
3. 1 medium Onion, cut into small slices
4. 1 Green Bell Pepper
5. 2-3 Boneless Chicken Breasts, cut into 1 inch strips.
6. 1 tablespoon of oil

DIRECTIONS:

1. I put all the onion and meat in a bowl and then add the Lime Juice and salt into the bowl and mix it up while your skillet is heating. Put your skillet on medium. Then pour all the contents that's in the bowl into the skillet.
2. Cook for 10 minutes, stir every few minutes.
3. Add the green bell peppers the last two minutes.
4. Cook until the meat is done and the peppers are some what tender.

EXTRAS:

      Tortillas: You can just eat with cold tortillas, but I like to get a separate, smaller skillet and put it on 3, then heat the tortillas for 5-10 seconds on each side. You could just microwave them but it changes the texture of the tortilla. It becomes harder to eat, almost stretchy.

     NOTES: I used a 2 eye skillet the last time I made this and it seemed to work pretty well also.

                    You can also use steak, same directions.

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