I take inspiration for my cooking from many places and none better than my very good friend, restaurateur, chef and fellow food lover Rob from my local restaurant.

I had delivered some freshly grown tomatoes and chillies from my allotment greenhouse, I can’t possibly eat all that I grow and I know they are appreciated and will be put to good use, and while I was supping a pint in the bar I was handed a dish that had been put together with the ingredients I just delivered.  This was quite unexpected and a fantastic addition to the beer!

The dish included the tomatoes, cooked in a pan of hot oil with the chillies, some seasoning, chives and some fantastic tortillas.

I found out later that the tortillas were simply wraps that had been shallow fried and served with a sprinkling of smoked paprika and it was this that inspired me to create something similar.

I very rarely eat white flour, in fact I avoid it at every opportunity, so I use some wholemeal plain flour, you don’t want too much rising so no self raising and bread flour would produce a tortilla too thick for the light crunchiness that I wanted to produce.

I simply put some flour in a bowl, about 200g, and then add water until you get a doughy consistency.

Then kneed the dough adding a little flour back to the dough to get a firm consistency.

Roll it out very thin.

Get a pan of oil, about 1/2 an inch, I like to use light olive oil, its healthier than most others.

While that’s heating cut the rolled out dough into pieces about 1-2″, I like triangles, and slanted squares but whatever you fancy.

Make sure the pan gets to just before smoking hot and then slide the cut pieces into the oil.

Very quickly turn, within 15-30 seconds depending on the heat of the pan, and then take out when golden brown to dry on kitchen roll.

Keep doing this until you get through all the pieces and then sprinkle with a little smoked paprika.

This can be served with roast tomatoes, sour cream, guacamole, salsa or just on their own, awesome!

I’ll be adding pictures and recipe summary information a little more structured once I sort out the look and feel of the site.

Hope you enjoy!

Mike Duma

I will be using this site to post about the fantastic food that I enjoy eating, cooking and the ingredients and methods that I come across on the way.

It is primerily a reference for me and if others also enjoy the content then feel free to drop me a line.

Cheers

Mike Duma