Cinco De Mayo is celebrated this weekend on May 5th. It is a celebration of the Mexican army over France at the battle of Puebla in 1862. Now this holiday is a celebration of both Mexican culture and heritage.
I love the Mexican food and all the wonderful flavours that it holds. I am not sure that I have ever made anything Mexican, and have only eating Mexican food in restaurants, except having taco and salsa or guacamole.
This year I thought that I would try to make my own variation of Mexican type food, seeing that we were going to have a Cinco De Mayo party on Foodie Friends Friday Linky Party this weekend.
Fiesta Porkchops
I was planning on making fajitas but decided that I would just make some porkchops and stir fried vegetables. I did have some left overs so I might just make some fajitas with that. I went to allrecipes.com and adapted my recipe from
Fajita Marinade III and
Fajita Marinade I and this is what I came up with....
1/4 lime juice
2 tbsp olive oil
4 cloves garlic -crushed
2 tsp maggi liquid seasoning
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp hot peppers or cayenne pepper (or more if you like it spicy)
1/4 tsp cumin
1/4 tsp fresh rosemary
1/4 tsp fresh thyme
1.5 lbs porkchops
Grind/crush garlic, rosemary and thyme. In bowl mix, lime juice, olive oil, crushed garlic, rosemary, thyme, maggi liquid seasoning, salt, hot pepper/cayenne pepper, cumin. Place porkchops in ziplock bag and add marinate. Marinade in fridge for at least 30 minutes to a couple of hours.
Cook porkchops with a small amount of marinade on hot grill for 7 minutes, flip and cook for another 7 minutes or until internal temperature reaches between 140 degrees to 165 degrees F. I used my George Foreman Grill on 4.
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Cooking on George Foreman Grill |
For the vegetables I used the remain marinade and heated it on the stove, stir frying peppers, onions and mushrooms until they start to turn brown and liquid was completely gone.
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Enjoy! |
We ate the pork chops and vegetables with Spanish Rice. I will be writing up my recipe for the Spanish rice in a day or so. So watch for it.
This recipe was a fiesta in your month!
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