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.

Chicken Thyme Baguette with Honey Mustard Sauce

Again one easy to cook food, that doesnt require any special appliances. This recipe servers 2 people.

Honey Mustard Sauce Ingredients:

• 70g Mayonnaise
• 2tbsp Honey
• 1tsp Mustard

Mix all the ingredients and put the sauce into a fridge to chill.

Baguette Ingredients:

• 150g Chicken breast or cutlets
• 2x Baguette or Baton
• Dried Thyme
• An onion
• 75g Mozarella cheese

The chicken needs to be sliced very thinly, fry the chicken with the onions. Slice the baguette in halves, and add in the chicken and onion. Sprinkle alot of thyme on the top and add the cheese. Bake the baguettes in an oven at full heat, depending on the setting this takes from 45s to 2min.

After baking I add some fresh vegetables like bell pepper, lettuce and cucumber. Add the sauce on the baguetter after all the rest of the stuff.

Chicken Katsu Curry

These is a japanese style sweet curry. I ate it the first time in Wakamamas in Manchester and loved it. After that I kept searching for good recipes in internet and found this one. This is the recipe for the Chicken Katsu Curry and it servers 4 people.

Sauce ingredients:

• 1x Onion
• 4x Granny Smith Apples
• 2x Garlic gloves
• 1x Banana
• 300ml Water and chicken stock cube or 300ml Chicken stock
• 2tbsp Honey
• 1tbsp Turmeric
• 1tbsp Hot Madras Curry Powder
• 2tbsp Tomato puree
• Cornflour

Chop the onion, garlic and apples and throw them into a pot with a piece of butter. Sauté them till they are soft and transclucent. Add enough water to cover them, bring to boil and throw in the sliced banana, tomate puree and spices. Simmer the sauce atleast 30 minutes.

Strain the sauce into sieve and remove all solids. Put the sauce in a pot and leave it on a stove to simmer while you finish the rest of the food. Season with salt and pepper.

Mix enough cornflour in cold water and mix with the sauce. The sauce should be quite thick.

Chicken ingredients:

• 4x Thin Chicken breasts
• Plain flour
• 2 eggs beaten
• Breadcrumbs
• 500ml peanut oil or rape-seed oil.

If you cant find thin chicken breasts, you can hammer the chicken slices bit thinner inside a foil with a meat hammer.

Do a small cuts on the breasts to make sure they cook evenly. Coat the chicken breast with flour and dip them into the beaten egg, roll the chicken breast in the breadcrumbs. Ideally you want to deep fry the chicken in the oil, but if that isnt possible just pour some oil on a pan, so that it covers atleast half of the breast. Fry the chicken from both sides till completely cooked.

Japanese small grained rice cooked in a rice cooker is best served with this dish.