Hi foodtube, I'm Tommi Miers and I'm passionate about spice and
mexican food and today I'm going to be cooking pea and mint quesadillas
with the perfect homemade Mexican tortilla just the type of street food snack not
you find in the markets all over Mexico. So first of all, I'm going to make my tortillas
I've got a bowl here with some plain strong flour and in it goes some lard, now lard
really makes a difference to the flavour of these flour tortillas of course if you don't
like lard
you can always use butter or shortening so I'm just rubbing
in the lard and you know lard is a real
mainstay of mexican food so this is just like
breadcrumbs as you can see and all I'm going to do is add a pinch of salt
and once you've made tortillas for the first time you realise how easy they are
and you almost never go back to buying them again so there we are
lovely breadcrumbs, I'm going to make a well in the middle
lovely and pour in my water
in it goes and then
just with a fork I'm just gonna work in that water
into the dough, gather it up
and once it's worked in I'm going to turn this out onto my board
onto my work surface so I can give it a proper
good go and you basically want to knead this
until it's nice and smooth and supple
So there we are, got a lovely ball of dough
so that dough needs to rest now I'm gonna cover it with a damp tea towel
and while that's rest I'm going to make the pea and mint filling
So my filling is a deliciously summery
pea, mint and feta mix so the first thing I'm going to do
is I'm gonna get some fat in my pan and sweat off my shallots
so I've got a bit of butter, in it goes and a
slick of olive oil
So in goes those shallots, two shallots
finely chopped, now you don't want the heat on too high
because you want to sweat your shallots and just soften them down without colouring them
So while those are sweating I'm gonna pick my mint
so for me there's nothing that says summer more than pea and mint
there we are and now I'm just gonna roughly chop it
and that is just smelling
of summer to me so I've got that mint chopped away
I'm gonna grab a chilli so now this filling has got a little bit of chill in
but it's not actual that hot. I'm going to chop this chilli in half now of course if you don't want
too much heat
just take out the seeds so
that chilli is gonna go into its my shallots, there it goes
and now I'm gonna season those up with some salt and pepper
nice pinch of salt, you need too much salt because you've got your feta going in which
is naturally salty
and some pepper, there we are
and now that that's all sweated down
I'm gonna throw in my peas, there we are
that's enough, stir those around I'm going to throw my mint in
so now my peas are in the pan I'm just gonna give them a rough mash
Now if you don't want to ruin your non-stick pan make sure you got a
coated thing or put it in a bowl and
I'm literally just going to just squish them down a bit
I'm gonna turn the heat off, I'm going to add in my feta
so this feta is as close
to a Mexican fresh cheese as you can get
and it gives a lovely saltiness to
the flavour of the peas and a lovely freshness, the mexicans love a fresh
cheese
so there we are, I'm just gonna stir it through so that slightly melts
into the peas and that
is my filling all I need to do
to sharpen up those flavours is a squeeze of fresh lime
and lime is one of my favorite, it's so good
stir that in, now you just to taste
to check the seasoning, fresh
summery, citrus, the saltiness of the cheese, that's perfect
now all I need to do is make my tortillas, now look at that dough it's
so lovely and silky smooth that's going to make delicious tortillas
so I'm gonna just take out a kind of walnut sized knob
So just gonna
roll this out so we're gonna roll these out as thin as we possibly can
so the thinner they are in, the more flavour that's going to come through from the filling
look at that
lovely papery thin and that's kind of what you want
you want to almost be able to see through it, so my pan's been heating up
it's nice and hot, I've got a special pan here but obviously you can just use a frying pan
and I'm going to put my tortilla on, first I'm gonna brush
this pan with a little bit of oil, there we are
it's non-stick already just the mere scent of oil
and on goes that tortilla
lovely and this pan
it's a bit like a comal, in mexico they call them comals
and they're these lovely circular metal plates that go over these
big open fires and they taste absolutely great so essentially
I'm just gonna cook this tortilla until it really bubbles up and then I can just
flip it
there we are, and look at that, just looks delicious
and it tastes really really great literally all this is now is assembly
I'm going to get some cheese on it there we are
and just going to ladle on
some of those peas, there we are
and then all I need to do is just fold him over
That's my quesadilla, you can't have a quesadilla without your favourite salsa, I've got some
scotch bonnet salsa here
I'm just gonna cut him open and this is a proper authentic Mexican
quesadilla with that homemade tortilla
just lovely, bit of salsa on top
in it goes so that is it a summery pea and mint filling
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