Sorry about the recent lack of posting, but between work and dogs, and the fact that it’s dark and we’re tired, we just haven’t been up to it. We also haven’t been that great about thinking about new recipes, but this is the one we’re currently working on improving.

So, last night we arrived home late, tired and starving. I had been intending to make Ho-Fan Beef Noodles, but realised I had no Soy Sauce in the house! This took about 35 minutes to make, and is very tasty and healthy (if you disregard the cheese).

250g round steak

Sunflower Oil

2 peppers

1 onion

1 clove garlic

Mexican Seasoning (we use our own mix)

1 bottle Passata

4 tortillas

80-100g cheddar

Method:

Pre-heat the oven to 150C.

Chop up the onion and garlic and divide between two pans with a little sunflower oil.

Cut the round steak up into bite-sized pieces, season with the mexican mix and throw it into one pan and saute quickly. Add the passata to the other pan and throw about 2 tsp of mexican seasoning onto that.

Chop up the peppers into bite sized pieces and add to the steak, draining off any fat if you wish. Give the round-steak and peppers a few minutes to get happy, and stir the passata.

Grate the cheese while everything else is cooking, and microwave the tortillas on low for 30 seconds to soften them.

Add about 3/4 of the passata mixture to the steak and let it simmer for a couple of minutes.

On a clean chopping board, lay out your first tortilla, and add a few spoons (about a quarter, obviously) of the steak mixture. Tuck the two “ends” in and roll up. Place open side down in a baking pan or pyrex which you have barely oiled. Do this for the other three tortillas, and lay them in the pan as well.

Pour the last 1/4 of the passata mixture over the tortillas in the baking pan, and top with the cheese. (You can put cheese inside the tortillas as well, but this is the quick version.

Whack them into the oven and leave until the cheese is melted. Remember, everything else is already cooked, so no risk of anything happening to you.

Open a few beers and enjoy.

Alright, I know these are not the most authentic burritos in the world, but they’re quick, they’re easy, and can be made in advance up to the final assembly stage. You could (if you’re a fan of spice) add a chopped up chilli to the beef bit before you add the passata, you could do all kinds of stuff to it, but in fairness, it can’t get much easier!

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