Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, scrumptious steak fajitas. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Cut shallow crosshatch cuts into both sides of steak for entire length of steak. Rub spice mix all over both sides. I love the taste of surf and turf so this steak and shrimp fajita recipe is perfect. The marinade of the steak fits nicely with the buttery shrimp and makes for a delicious meal.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have scrumptious steak fajitas using 24 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Scrumptious steak fajitas:
- Get 1 1/2 lb. Flank or skirt steak
- Prepare 1 Tbsp. Chili powder
- Make ready 1 tsp. Salt
- Make ready 1/2 Tbsp. Cumin powder
- Make ready 1/4 Cup Fresh lime juice
- Make ready 1/4 Cup plus 2 TBS. Olive oil
- Make ready 1 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
- Get 4 cloves garlic, minced
- Take 1 yellow onion, sliced
- Take 3 Red, yellow or green bell peppers, sliced
- Prepare 1 jalapeño, diced (optional)
- Make ready 1 tomato, diced
- Get 1/4 C. Cilantro, chopped
- Prepare 6 flour tortillas
- Take 1 C. Iceberg lettuce, sliced thin
- Prepare 1/2 lemon
- Take White sauce
- Make ready 1 C. Mayonnaise
- Take 1 C. Sour cream
- Prepare 3 green onions, diced
- Take 1 tsp. Cumin
- Prepare 1 tsp. Apple cider vinegar
- Make ready 1 tsp. Sugar
- Prepare 1 jalapeño, diced (optional)
Place steak strips into the marinade and refrigerate for two to four hours. Preheat grill to medium high heat. Season steak with chili powder mixture. What else do you need to make the best steak fajitas: The other ingredients are simple!
Instructions to make Scrumptious steak fajitas:
- Combine 2 teaspoons ground cumin, the chili powder and 1 teaspoon salt. Cut shallow crosshatch cuts into both sides of steak for entire length of steak.
- Rub spice mix all over both sides. Place in a ziploc bag.
- In a small bowl whisk lime zest, lime juice, 1/4 C. olive oil, Worcestershire, and half the garlic. Reserve 2 Tbsp. of the marinade and pour the rest into the bag with the steak. Seal and toss to coat. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours. Massage every now and then to redistribute marinade.
- Heat 2 Tbsp. olive oil in skillet over medium-high heat. Add onions and saute 3-4 minutes until soft and translucent. Add in bell peppers and saute another 3 minutes.
- Reduce heat to medium, add the remainder of garlic and cumin and salt to taste. Cook stirring often until peppers are soft and beginning to caramelize. 5-8 minutes.
- Pour in the 2 Tbsp. reserved marinade. Stir in half the cilantro. Salt to taste and remove from heat and keep warm.
- In a smoking hot dry pan blister tortillas on both sides. Place in an oven on very low heat to keep warm.
- Remove steak from ziplock bag and pat dry with paper towels. Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat and add 1 Tbsp. olive oil. Cut steak and work in batches if your skillet is not large enough. Cook steak to your liking. 3-4 minutes per side for medium rare.
- Remove to cutting board. Cover with foil and let sit 10 minutes. Cut across the grain into thin strips.
- Tip remaining juices from pan over cut steak, and sprinkle with remaining cilantro.
- Mix all white sauce ingredients together.
- Sprinkle juice of 1/2 lemon over sliced lettuce, add salt.
- Assemble fajitas. Place steak in tortilla and top with tomatoes, onions and peppers, lettuce and jalapeños if desired. Drizzle white sauce over top.
Season steak with chili powder mixture. What else do you need to make the best steak fajitas: The other ingredients are simple! A little lime juice, some Worcestershire sauce (this is Tex-Mex style fajitas after all!), garlic, chili powder, smoked paprika, cumin, a little olive oil, chopped cilantro, and a little salt and pepper. Preheat grill to medium high heat. Season steak with chili powder mixture.
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