Veggie Fajitas (Packed Lunches)

Member Name: angelic2004

Product:	Packed Lunches
Date:	02/03/09 (161 review reads)
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Advantages: Purely vegetarian, tastes good, contains a variety of vegetables

Disadvantages: None.

As far as packed lunches go for my brother he is very fussy and confused what to eat at work on a daily basis. Usually his packed lunches involve chicken salad wraps or cheese sandwiches and on the odd occasion a tub of pasta. So he was on at me to think of something veggie that he could eat for a few days this week, as he thought he was just consuming too much meat lately with packed lunches and meals at home. My family's term of vegetarian is without egg and fish too. My dad has this rule that we go vegetarian on two day in the week. So my brother is a bit limited on what to eat and ends up eating a cheese sandwich, which he was begun to hate with a passion and let's not even talk about Quorn as he not keen on it and feel he might as well eat meat instead of it.

So while on a shopping trip to ASDA I was looking at the cooking sauces and though I veggie fajitas are a good alternative for a vegetarian instead of being limited to cheese sandwich. I made a batch of the filling up for my brother and we worked out that since he was taking it for few days it would cost him about £2 per a day.

Veggie Fajitas

Ingredients:

Filling:
570g ASDA Fajita Sauce (tomato sauce with red peppers. onions, coriander and jalapeno peppers) Tastes good, not overpowering and is mild.
2 large carrots peeled and cut into sticks
1 courgette cut into sticks
175g bean sprouts
165g baby corn (cut into halves)
170g Mangetout
1 tbsp of corn oil

Wholewheat Tortillas or tortillas of your choice

Method:

1. Place the oil into a wok and heat up.

2. When oil it hot, place all the vegetables into the wok and stir-fry for 3-4 minutes.

3. Add the fajita sauce and coat the vegetables and allow it to simmer for 20 minutes while stirring it from time to time.

4. After it is cooked let it cool and then place in the fridge till up you are ready to prepare the wraps.

5. Warm the tortillas up in the microwave for about 10 seconds so it makes it soft and easy to handle when wrapping them.

6. Give the filling a good mix before placing in the tortillas as most of the sauce would have settled at the bottom.

7. Place the filling on the tortilla and fold an edge up towards the filling, then take the sides and wrap it up tight.

8. Wrap them in cling film to keep them in tack.

9. Place in the fridge and take them out before you leave the house.

Summary: Veggie lunch idea