Mexicanish or Texmex Dinner

This was our sunday dinner, a 3 course meal. We had some margaritas as aperatives with salted rim and everything. The starter is a simple and light Mexican vegetarian dish. The main course is more of a texmex-style dish. The dessert was a simple Mexican style dish with bit of vanilla cream.

The Starter: Vegetarian Tortillas

Tortilla ingredients

• 4 Garlic Cloves
• 3 Tomatoes
• 2 Onions
• 3 Medium Chilies
• 1 Bell Pepper
• 6 Vegetarian Tortillas

Sour cream sauce

• 1dl Sour Cream
• 1 Garlic Clove
• 0,2dl Lime Juice

This recipe serves 6 people. Chop the garlic clove for the sauce and mix the lime juice, chopped garlic and sour cream. Place the sauce into the fridge till serving it. Slice the tomatoes, onions, chilies, garlic and bell pepper. Heat up a pan really hot and melt some butter on it. Fry all the ingredients on the pan. Warm the tortillas in a pan or in a microwave. Spread the vegetables on the tortilla and place the sauce on top.

The main dish: Chicken filets filled with cheddar cheese and jalapenos served with lime and coriander sauce.

Chicken ingredients:

• 6 Chicken filets
• Jalapenos
• 100g Cheddar cheese

Hammer the chicken filets thin. Fold in jalapenos and about 15g of cheese to each file and close them with cocktail picks. Fry the chicken filets on each side with some butter. After browning place them into oven at 200C for about 10-15mins.

Sauce ingredients:

• 1,5l Lime Juice
• Lime zest
• 2 tsp Sour Cream
• Sugar
• Bunch of fresh coriander
• Bunch of fresh parsley
• Cumin seeds
• Maize flour

Fry the cumin seeds slightly in oil, pour in the lime juice and the lime zest. Add a bit of water to the sauce and mix in enough maize flour to thicken it. Mix in the sour cream and add enough sugar to cover the bitterness of lime. Let the sauce simmer for about 10mins and add the fresh herbs just before serving.
This dish is best served with some rice. Fry a bit of cumin seeds and turmeric in oil. Add chicken stock or water and stock cubes. Boil the rice in this mix.

The dessert: Fried bananas and vanilla sauce

Dessert ingredients

• 3 Bananas
• 1 Orange
• Brown Sugar
• 4cl Tequila
• Vanilla cream

Press the juice from the orange and grade the zest. Slice the bananas to 12 pieces. Melt some butter on a pan and mix in the brown sugar. Let it heat up for a while. Fry the bananas slightly from both sides and pour in the orange juice and add in the zest. Let the juice simmer till there is almost no liquid. Pour in the tequila and let it heat it up. Flambee the bananas. Serve with whipped vanilla cream.