Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, scrumptious steak fajitas. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Scrumptious steak fajitas is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Scrumptious steak fajitas is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have scrumptious steak fajitas using 24 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Scrumptious steak fajitas:
- 1 1/2 lb. Flank or skirt steak
- 1 Tbsp. Chili powder
- 1 tsp. Salt
- 1/2 Tbsp. Cumin powder
- 1/4 Cup Fresh lime juice
- 1/4 Cup plus 2 TBS. Olive oil
- 1 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 yellow onion, sliced
- 3 Red, yellow or green bell peppers, sliced
- 1 jalapeño, diced (optional)
- 1 tomato, diced
- 1/4 C. Cilantro, chopped
- 6 flour tortillas
- 1 C. Iceberg lettuce, sliced thin
- 1/2 lemon
- White sauce
- 1 C. Mayonnaise
- 1 C. Sour cream
- 3 green onions, diced
- 1 tsp. Cumin
- 1 tsp. Apple cider vinegar
- 1 tsp. Sugar
- 1 jalapeño, diced (optional)
I could eat these every night! Her Skirt Steak Fajitas recipe at the bottom of this post was one of the first to catch our eye. Laurie shares in her book that this steak fajitas recipe was one of her go-to, no-fail recipes in the early years. Steak fajitas made with sirloin are so flavorful and surprisingly easy to make.
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.
You don't have to serve them in tortillas! They're very good by themselves or in lettuce wraps. These spicy beef fajitas are packed with fresh flavours and are surprisingly low in calories if you use lean beef. There's something about that sizzling platter of fajitas that always makes everyone's mouth water when it goes by the table at your favorite Mexican food spot. These Steak Fajitas are so easy to make, and you can make your own homemade fajita seasoning ahead of time.
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