Seriously, pure happiness! Today I was craving Mexican. Okay, I actually ALWAYS crave Mexican (or technically, tex-mex) but today was my breaking point so I decided to do something about it. Depressed by the lack luster offerings of the surrounding El Gross-o restaurants, I sent myself to the kitchen to see if the fridge had anything useful in it. Luckily for us, it did.
I set to work with no recipe, just a vague idea of what I wanted the end result to taste like. I took all my favorite parts of tex-mex cuisine and combined them. The filling was based on fajita filling, with green & red peppers, onions and chicken. I added a special and unique blend of spices to get it just right. Once I had rolled the filling up in tortillas, I fried them up a few seconds on each side in a little bit of oil.
After they were plated, I spooned on some of the special sauce I had made. The sauce is a green chili sauce, made with a mixture of cream of chicken soup, green enchilada sauce, diced green chilis and an assortment of spices. The idea was to make the inside hot and spicy and the outside cool and refreshing, mixing the two in perfect harmony. Because they are a mixture of fajitas and chimichangas, I named them Chimijitas. :)
I served the chimijitas with mexican rice/black beans, corn, and romaine lettuce, creating a fairly balanced plate of flavors. The end result was shockingly good. They needed no salsa or cheese, they were simply perfect displaying all the flavors I had been craving. Success is rarely so tasty!
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