Well hello folks it's Mike here over at Mr. Cast Iron where our goal is to help the curious
beginners and the novice cooks overcome their fear of cooking in cast iron and today what we're
cooking is cast iron fajitas. We've got some leftover chicken breast and some leftover
vegetables we're going to be cooking and frying up here so let's get started. You ready? Let's go
because I am. Man I'm hungry. How about you? Well all right our cast of characters are pretty simple
today. We've got some leftover chicken breast that we've had in the refrigerator we need to
cook up, so why not make some fajitas out of that? I've got some stir-fried vegetables here too. If
you're not stir-frying vegetables, if you're not cutting them up and freezing them for when you
need them, why not? I mean, they just come in so handy when you got them cut up in the bag. It
just saves you so much time. We're going to add a little chili powder to this, a little paprika
I also gonna add a little cumin, a little ground cumin, some minced garlic
Gonna add a little garlic powder to the mix too. And also a little salt and pepper
So let's go ahead. We've got our cast iron skillet heating up
We've got about two tablespoons of bacon grease in here. If you're not using bacon grease, I don't know why not
Because that's got the best flavoring. So let's go ahead and let's get our vegetables in here and start sauteing them down
Are you ready? Well alright we got our cast iron skillet with some two tablespoons or so of bacon grease in it And we get the rest of our veggies in here Got our stir fry mix of onion bell pepper and zucchini
And so we're going to go ahead and let these cook down real good
And then I've got my chicken breast over here already cut up into slices
Got just small slices here we're going to do. get that fixed up and we'll be back here in just a minute to show you what this looks like
Well, these vegetables are cooking nice. I mean, they're cooking down just about right. So let's
go ahead and get our chicken in there and we'll add every bit of that
Get that in there and kind of give that a quick mix. Just kind of incorporate these together
And while we're doing that, we're going to go ahead and add, oh, just about a tablespoon of chili powder
Maybe two tablespoons of chili powder. And we're going to add approximately a tablespoon of ground cumin
That ought to be plenty. And I want to put about a tablespoon of paprika
About a tablespoon of garlic powder. Maybe a little less. And we're going to add a little black pepper to it
Probably about a tablespoon of that as well. Kind of like them even mixtures of one tablespoon, don't you guys
It's easier to remember. And we'll add about a tablespoon of some good sea salt
And I forgot to get a spoon out, but I need about a tablespoon of minced garlic as well
Juice and all. I like to add my garlic a little bit later in there because if you're not careful, sometimes garlic will burn
So now that we've got all that put together, let's just kind of give this a quick stir here
Oh man, that's smelling so good. It's going to be so good
All right All right
Boy, that looks so good. That is going to be so good. So while that's continuing to cook, we'll go ahead and put a lid on it and let it steam down a little bit
And while we've got a lid on it, we'll let our tortillas warm up
How about that? So we'll let these steam down for just a little bit. We'll be back here in just a minute and show you what these look like
All right. Well, we've let these tortillas warm up. And the only thing that I didn't tell you about is I had about four pieces of bacon left over from this morning's breakfast
And so I kind of just rough chopped the bacon up and put it in here with our chicken fajitas
And we're going to get a little bit of this put on to a tortilla here. And we're going to make a fajita burrito here
And let me show you how I do this. Now, once I put this in the burrito like this
I basically, or in the tortilla, I basically pull the sides over and just roll that baby up just like that right there
And so there is a fajita burrito for Cinco de Mayo. And so that's how you roll up a fajita burrito
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with another good recipe. here y'all have a great day it's mike and mrs cast iron over here we'll see you later bye bye