Fajitas!

Homemade fajitas!!! You can’t beat a fajita can you?! 🤤 I used to buy the kits but for the last year or so I make them from scratch as the chicken fajita seasoning is so simple to make and the guacamole and salsa are so much tastier made fresh. The @morrisons mexican rice was a cheat but it was really tasty and only cost 47p!

Fajita chicken

I fry 3/4 sliced chicken breasts with sliced red onion and pepper and then sprinkle on around half a tsp of cayenne pepper, paprika, smoked paprika and cumin. Then I add a pinch of dried chilli flakes and a little water to stop it sticking.

Salsa

The salsa is simply 4 chopped salad tomatoes, with 1 small onion diced, the juice of half a lime, a pinch of dried chilli flakes and a small handful of fresh coriander chopped.

Guacamole

Chop 2 avocados, squeeze half a lime over, add 1 small crushed garlic clove, a handful of chopped fresh coriander, a pinch of chilli flakes and seasoning. Roughly mash with a fork.

Sausage Stroganoff

Speedy Sausage Stroganoff recipe from @bbcgoodfood (click here). I didn’t follow the method but I used the same ingredients (except the butter). I prefer to cook sausages in the oven so I did this while I made the sauce and then I stirred in the sausages which I’d cut into quarters. It tasted so good- the smoked paprika, wholegrain mustard and beef stock gave it a lovely flavour.

Creamy Butternut Squash Pasta Bake

Meatfree Monday dinner last night. This should have been a Tom Kerridge recipe from my new cookbook but I didn’t want to waste the creme fraiche I had opened for the sweet potato mash on Sunday so I ended up doing my own take on his recipe!

Morrison’s frozen butternut squash is brilliant just to grab out of the freezer and pop straight into the oven. No peeling and cutting required! I actually cooked it the day before and left it in the fridge which made cooking a bit quicker last night.

The panko breadcrumbs were so convenient and really crisp on top.

INGREDIENTS

Morrisons frozen butternut squash

300g pasta, I used casareccia

200ml creme fraiche

Seasoning

30g Parmesan finely grated

3 sage leaves finely chopped

50g panko breadcrumbs

METHOD

1. Heat the oven to 220oC/Fan 200oC/Gas 7.

2. Cook the butternut squash in the oven with a little olive oil.

3. Cook the pasta according to the instructions.

4. Blend 3/4 of the squash with the creme fraiche and Parmesan.

5. Drain the pasta (save a little of the water) and pop back in the pan.

6. Stir in the sauce and season. Add some of the pasta water to loosen.

7. Pour into an ovenproof dish.

8. Sprinkle over the remaining butternut squash, sage and breadcrumbs.

9. Bake for 15 minutes.