Chilli Beef In Tortillas

Chilli Beef In Tortillas

Serves 6–8

Ingredients :

For the tortillas

850g/13

⁄4lb flour

4 teaspoons leavening

1 teaspoon salt

4 tablespoons edible fat

The filling


3 tablespoons edible fat

1 giant onion, finely sliced

2 teaspoons dried oregano

1 teaspoon ground cumin

1 teaspoon hot pepper powder

1 teaspoon paprika

850g/13

⁄4lb minced beef

1 sweet pepper, seeded and finely

chopped

2 garlic cloves, crushed

50g/2oz tomato purée


• to create the tortillas, combine the flour and leavening with the salt. Mix

in the oil employing a fork, then add enough lukewarm water to change you

to gather the dough into a ball along with your hands. Knead gently to sleek,

then leave coated within the bowl for a minimum of twenty minutes.

• Divide the dough into twenty-four balls, and roll out everyone on a gently floured

surface into a skinny hot cake, or flannel cake.

• Heat a non-stick cooking pan with none oil, and cook every flannel cake till

the top surface bubbles up. Puncture the blisters and switch to cook the

another side. Wrap the tortillas in a very clean artefact to stay heat.

• meantime, to create the filling, heat the oil and sweat the onion gently

with the oregano, cumin, hot pepper powder and paprika till the onion is simply

soft. Add the meat, sweet pepper and garlic, and stir gently employing a

wooden spoon till the meat changes colour and breaks into granules.

• place the tomato purée into a bowl, and blend with its own volume of cold

water. Stir into the meat and cook, covered, for concerning ten minutes. Serve

hot with the nice and cosy tortillas.