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Home » Around the World in 12 Dishes – Mexico

Around the World in 12 Dishes – Mexico

Modified: Jun 23, 2025 · Published: Oct 8, 2012 by admin · This post may contain affiliate links or sponsored content

For one reason or another I’ve missed a few countries over the last few months, but we are back for MEXICO.

We made our favourite chilli.

Ingredients

500g minced beef

2 tins of chopped tomatoes

1 onion –  chopped

1 red pepper – chopped

a dollop of tomato ketchup

1 red chilli chopped and deseeded

a  big sprinkle of cumin.

Vegetable oil

2 tins kidney beans

Fajitas

Instructions

  • Fry the onion gently in some vegetable oil until lightly browned.
  • Add the mince and brown all over, then add the red pepper and chilli. Cook for another 2 minutes.
  • Add the cumin and some chilli powder to make it a bit hotter.
  • Add the tins of chopped tomatoes and leave to simmer for 30 minutes.
  • Drain and rinse the kidney beans and add to the chilli, simmer for another 15 minutes.
  • To make the fajita bowl,  I just placed mine over an oven proof bowl and baked it in the oven for 5 minutes. Helen at The Crazy Kitchen has a much better method of placing a bigger bowl over the top to get a better shape. I’d recommend her method over mine.

Z and S loved helping me out with this, and loved eating it even more.

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Comments

  1. Molly - Mother's Always Right

    October 08, 2012 at 6:32 am

    Really shouldn’t have read this while I’m so hungry…

    Reply
    • admin

      October 08, 2012 at 1:21 pm

      oh dear. Sorry Molly. x

      Reply
  2. Mary

    October 08, 2012 at 11:33 am

    Mexican food is my absolute fave. You’d think my kids would love it since I had it all the time when I was pregnant (ok maybe it doesn’t work that way). We’re working on expanding their diets. I’ll have to try some of these recipes. Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
    • admin

      October 08, 2012 at 1:21 pm

      Mmmm my favourite too. x

      Reply
  3. Rebecca

    October 08, 2012 at 12:06 pm

    Oooh we did chili too. Yum! Love Mexican food.

    Reply
    • admin

      October 08, 2012 at 1:21 pm

      oooh off to look now. x

      Reply
  4. maggy, red ted art

    October 08, 2012 at 12:19 pm

    Oooh that looks YUMMY! Can we come for supper?!

    Reply
    • admin

      October 08, 2012 at 1:22 pm

      Anytime 🙂

      Reply
  5. Coombemill - Fiona

    October 08, 2012 at 1:59 pm

    My kids now love this kind of Mexican chilli. So much easier when you all like the same food!

    Reply
  6. Actually Mummy...

    October 08, 2012 at 9:59 pm

    Oh look, you’ve got your kids cooking the dinner too! Feet up, wine glass in hand, I hope!

    Reply
  7. Valerie @ Glittering Muffins

    October 14, 2012 at 1:45 am

    Nice recipe, love the kids helping and liking it too. Clever bowl, I’ve seen it deep fried never in the oven, this is much better! Thanks for participating 🙂

    Reply

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