BEEF FAJITAS
This yummy steak filling is sure to tingle your taste buds. It's easy to make ahead and when ready, it cooks quickly for a filling meal. Optional: serve with shredded lettuce or any condiments of your choice.
Provided by CookingQueen
Categories World Cuisine Recipes Latin American Mexican
Time 4h30m
Yield 4
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Whisk olive oil, lime juice, cilantro, onion, garlic, cumin, salt, and black pepper in a bowl, and pour into a resealable plastic bag. Add steak strips, coat with the marinade, squeeze out excess air, and seal bag. Marinate in the refrigerator for 4 hours to overnight.
- Heat a large skillet over medium heat; cook and stir beef in hot skillet until all liquid is absorbed, 15 to 20 minutes.
- Serve cooked beef with tortillas, salsa and Mexican cheese blend.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 698.6 calories, Carbohydrate 31.3 g, Cholesterol 120.6 mg, Fat 42.3 g, Fiber 4.6 g, Protein 49.8 g, SaturatedFat 18.3 g, Sodium 1450.5 mg, Sugar 2.6 g
TEQUILA-MARINATED BEEF FAJITAS
For Garnish: Guacamole For the garnish I suggest fresh Mexican salsa, sour cream and finely chopped fresh cilantro.
Provided by annconnolly
Categories Mexican
Time P1DT35m
Yield 6-8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Trim the excess fat from the meat and cut it crosswise into long strips about 1/2 inch wide. Place the strips in a shallow, nonreactive dish. In a bowl stir together the lime juice, 1/3 cup oil, tequila, cumin, oregano, pepper and garlic. Pour over meat, coating each piece well.
- Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 24 hours, turning the meat over a few times. In a heavy frying pan or a griddle over medium heat, warm the 1 tablespoon oil. Cook the onion, stirring, until well browned, 6 to 8 minutes. Transfer to a plate and keep warm.
- Place the same pan or griddle over high heat. Drain the meat well, reserving the marinade. Add the meat to the pan or griddle and cook, turning once and basting with the leftover marinade, until done to your liking, about 2 minutes on each side for medium-rare. Transfer to the plate holding the onions and keep warm.
- Heat the tortillas, turning once, on the same pan or griddle, about 10 seconds on each side. Alternatively, wrap in plastic wrap and place in microwave oven for about 30 seconds. Just before serving gently heat the refried beans in heavy saucepan. Cover and keep warm. Arrange the meat, onions and tortillas on a warmed platter. Place the refried beans, guacamole, salsa, sour cream and cilantro in separate dishes on the side. Diners can prepare their own fajita according to their liking.
GRILLED FLANK STEAK FAJITAS RECIPE
Tequila and Soy Marinade and grilled flank steak with cast iron seared peppers and onions.
Provided by Mary Cressler | Vindulge
Categories dinner
Time 2h33m
Number Of Ingredients 20
Steps:
- Combine all marinade ingredients in a 1 gallon baggie and stir to incorporate. Trim the silver skin and excess fat off the flank steak and place in the baggie. Remove the air and seal tightly. Marinate in the refrigerator for two hours.
- Prepare the grill for two zone cooking, or direct/indirect using lump charcoal. Target 500 degrees Fahrenheit over the direct heat. Place cast iron pan over the indirect side while the grill warms up.
- Remove the flank steak from the marinade and discard marinade. Combine the salt, pepper and garlic in a small bowl and season the steak.
- Start by placing the flank steak over direct heat. As soon as you place the flank steak over direct heat, drop all the peppers and onions into the cast iron pan and stir. It will sear and smoke.
- While the peppers and onions cook, sear the steak for four minutes or until you see good grill marks over the direct heat. Flip the flank steak and sear over direct heat for an additional 4 minutes.
- Move the flank steak to the indirect side. At the same time, using high heat gloves, move the cast iron pan over the direct heat and continue to stir the peppers and onions.
- Cook the flank steak over indirect heat until the internal temperature of the flank steak at the thickest part reads 125 degrees F, about 4 - 6 more minutes. Remove the flank and let it rest for 10 minutes.
- While flank is cooking and resting, continue stirring the peppers and onions until they are soft. This should take a total time of 16 - 18 minutes. Likely the flank will be resting while the veggies finish up.
- Remove the cast iron from the grill when the peppers and onions are soft. Slice the flank steak against the grains in thin slices and serve with your favorite toppings.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 390 kcal, Carbohydrate 31 g, Protein 6 g, Fat 25 g, SaturatedFat 5 g, Cholesterol 10 mg, Sodium 1279 mg, Fiber 2 g, Sugar 5 g, ServingSize 1 serving
BEEF FAJITAS
Steps:
- Make the marinade:
- In a large bowl whisk together the garlic paste, the lime juice, the cumin, and the oil.
- Add the steak to the marinade, turning it to coat it well, and let it marinate, covered and chilled, for at least 1 hour or overnight. Grill the steak, drained, on a well-oiled rack set about 5 inches over glowing coals or in a hot well-seasoned ridged grill pan over moderately high heat for 3 to 4 minutes on each side, or until it is just springy to the touch, for medium-rare meat. (Alternatively, the steak may be broiled on the rack of a broiler pan under a preheated broiler about 4 inches from the heat for 3 to 4 minutes on each side for medium-rare meat.) Transfer the steak to a cutting board and let it stand for 10 minutes. While the steak is standing, in a large skillet heat the oil over moderately high heat until it is hot but not smoking, add the bell peppers, the onion, and the garlic, and sauté the mixture, stirring, for 5 minutes, or until the bell peppers are softened. Slice the steak thin across the grain on the diagonal and arrange the slices on a platter with the bell pepper mixture. Drizzle any steak juices over the steak and the pepper mixture and serve the steak and the pepper mixture with the tortillas, the guacamole, and the salsa.
- To assemble a fajita:
- Spread some of the guacamole on a tortilla, top it with a few slices of the steak, some of the pepper mixture, and some of the salsa, and roll up the tortilla to enclose the filling.
- To warm tortillas:
- In the oven:Stack 6 tortillas at a time, wrap each stack in foil, and heat the tortillas in the middle of a preheated 325°F. oven for 5 minutes for corn tortillas and 15 minutes for flour tortillas. (If the tortillas are very dry to begin with, pat each tortillas between dampened hands before stacking them.)
- In the microwave:Stack 6 tortillas at time, wrap each stack in a microwave-safe plastic bag, and heat the tortillas in a microwave oven at high power (100%) for 30 seconds to 1 minute, or until they are heated through and pliable.
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