Monday, May 30, 2016

Steak Fajitas


Don’t be put off by the list of ingredients. The fact is, you can substitute chicken, and ingredients to suit your taste. The sauce is nothing but mixing spices and marinating the meat. Then it’s just pan-cooking and folding everything up in tortillas.

Ingredients 
  • SIRLOIN STEAK, ¾ pound
  • OLIVE OIL, 2 tablespoons, divided
  • LIME JUICE, 1 tablespoon
  • LIME ZEST, ½ lime
  • GARLIC, 1 clove, finely minced
  • CHILI POWDER, ½ teaspoon
  • CUMIN, ½ teaspoon
  • HOT PEPPER FLAKES, ¼ teaspoon (more or less as desired)
  • BLACK PEPPER, ½ teaspoon
  • SALT, ½ teaspoon
  • FLOUR TORTILLAS, 8 eight-inch
  • ONION, 1, sliced into strips
  • SWEET PEPPERS, 2 green, red, or yellow, sliced into strips

Directions 
  1. Slice steak into strips.
  2. Mix olive oil, lime juice and zest, garlic, chili powder, cumin, hot pepper, black pepper and salt in a bowl.
  3. Add the steak strips, stir, set aside.
  4. Warm tortillas in foil in a 350°F oven for 5-10 minutes until heated through.
  5. Slice onions and peppers into strips.
  6. Heat remaining olive oil in a large non-stick skillet, add the onions and peppers and cook until softened. Set aside.
  7. Add marinated beef to skillet, cook until medium.
  8. Return onions and peppers to skillet, stir for a minute or so.
  9. Spoon some beef mixture onto a tortilla, fold the bottom and both sides in.



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