Cooking with kids: Fajitas

Ingredients

• 4 chicken breasts , cut into chunks
• olive oil , for frying
• 4 limes , juice only
• 2 tsp fajita seasoning
• 4 spring onions , finely sliced
• 1 fat garlic clove , crushed
• 1 red pepper
• ½ jar roasted pepper (we used Gaea Red Peppers Flame Roasted 290g)
• 1 small apple , peeled
• 4 ripe tomatoes
• ½ lime , juice only
• small bunch coriander , leaves picked
• chilli sauce , to taste (optional)
• 2 very ripe avocados , halved and stone removed
• ½ lime , juice only
• grated cheese , to serve
• 6 - 8 tortillas (you can now get mini tortillas for kids)
• soured cream (optional)

Instructions

1. Grown-ups: Put the chicken and marinade ingredients in a bowl and cover. Put in the fridge for at least two hours.
2. Children: If your children are 5 or over, you can get them to roughly chop the pepper, roasted pepper, apple and tomatoes for the salsa using a good quality firm plastic knife or cutlery knife. Otherwise do this yourself. Younger children can pick the leaves from the coriander and mix them into the salsa.
3. Grown-ups: Tip the salsa ingredients into a food processor, along with the lime juice and a little seasoning and pulse until finely chopped. Take out 2 large spoons of the mixture for younger children, then add chilli sauce, if using, and pulse again to combine.
4. Children: Squeeze or spoon the avocado into a bowl and use a potato masher to mash it. Stir in the lime juice and some black pepper with a spoon. Lime juice can sting so grown ups may want to squeeze them for younger children.
5. Grown-ups: Heat a little olive oil in a frying pan and pour the contents of the chicken bowl into the pan. Cook for 5- 8 minutes or until the chicken chunks are cooked through.
6. Children: Put the grated cheese, salsa (for grown-ups and children), guacamole and sour cream in separate colourful bowls to put on the table.
7. Grown-ups: Heat the tortillas according to the pack instructions and put the cooked chicken in a bowl. Show children how to fill and roll their tortilla.
8. Children: Lay out your tortilla, choose your toppings, roll them up and eat!