A restaurant favorite that is easy at home. Start with some sirloin, marinade in ingredients you probably already have at home, fry up some veggies and the meat. Then impress your family with your new specialty of the house.
Most recipes call for marinading the whole piece of beef, but I wanted more flavor, so I cut the meat thin and exposed more surface area to the flavors. It worked great.
Rating:
I love fajitas, but I tend not to order them since there is always more than I would eat. But at home, a few leftovers are great.
Notes: My marinade was mainly from Real Restaurant Recipes but there are many recipes, and they are quite variable so feel free to change it around some, but you won’t go wrong just following my lead.
Other Grilled Fajitas
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Grilled Chicken Fajitas in 30 Minutes
Suggested Side Dishes
Healthier Homemade Refried Beans
Start with about a pound of sirloin steak. I had 1 1/4 pounds. Trim well and cut into strips about 1/4 inch thick.
Mix marinade ingredients in a 1-gallon zip lock bag.
Add the beef, mix well and seal after removing as much air as possible. Refrigerate for a least an hour and longer if possible. I got 5 hours, but overnight would have been fine.
When ready to cook. Put 1 T oil in a large cast iron pan and heat over medium-high heat. While heating, slice up a large onion and one or two peppers. I like a medium red and green pepper. If your pepper is large, you only need one.
When oil is hot, add the veggies and after a few minutes add a couple of tablespoons of the marinade from the meat for flavor (optional). When onions are nicely browned (about 8-9 minutes), Remove from pan and set aside and cover.
Add a little oil back to the pan, increase the heat to high and added the drained beef and cook until browned. About 8-10 minutes.
Now move the meat to one side and add the veggies back to the pan. Cook and stir for a minute or two until veggies are reheated.
Serve with heated tortillas, sour cream, guacamole and anything else you like. A simple way to heat tortillas is to sprinkle a dish towel with some water, put tortillas inside and heat in a microwave on high for one minute.
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Beef Steak Fajitas
Ingredients
- 1 lb sirloin steak
- 1 green pepper
- 1 red pepper
- 1 onion - large
Marinade
- 1/4 cup lime juice
- 1/3 cup water
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 - 2 cloves garlic - crushed
- 1 tablespoon vinegar
- 2 teaspoons soy sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon liquid smoke
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon onion powder
Serving
- 4-6 flour tortillas
- sour cream
- cheese
- salsa
- Guacamole
Instructions
- Start with about a pound of sirloin steak. I had 1 1/4 pounds. Trim well and cut into strips about 1/4 inch thick.
- Mix marinade ingredients in a 1-gallon zip lock bag.
- Add the beef, mix well and seal after removing as much air as possible. Refrigerate for a least an hour and longer if possible. I got 5 hours, but overnight would have been fine
- When ready to cook. Put 1 T oil in a large cast iron pan and heat over medium-high heat. While heating, slice up a large onion and one or two peppers. I like a medium red and green pepper. If your pepper is large, you only need one.5
- When oil is hot, add the veggies and after a few minutes add a couple of tablespoons of the marinade from the meat for flavor (optional). When onions are nicely browned (about 8-9 minutes), Remove from pan and set aside and cover.
- Add a little oil back to the pan, increase the heat to high and added the drained beef and cook until browned. About 8-10 minutes.
- Now move the meat to one side and add the veggies back to the pan. Cook and stir for a minute or two until veggies are reheated.
- Serve with heated tortillas, sour cream, guacamole and anything else you like. A simple way to heat tortillas is to sprinkle a dish towel with some water, put tortillas inside and heat in a microwave on high for one minute.
Recipe Notes
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Nutrition is for one serving. Number of servings is stated above and is my estimate of normal serving size for this recipe.
All nutritional information are estimates and may vary from your actual results. This is home cooking, and there are many variables. To taste ingredients such as salt will be my estimate of the average used.
If you like this recipe or find it useful, the pleasure of a nice 4 or 5 rating would be greatly appreciated.
Doug DeFrees
June 2, 2012 at 1:26 pmThis makes for a nice, easy-to-prepare meal which is also easily adapted to suit both vegetarians and omnivores. Remember, though, to marinate the meat in advance. I like Chris’s idea of grilling the meat.
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Chris
April 22, 2012 at 5:52 amI absolutely LOVE steak fajitas! I marinate my steak whole only because I am grilling it. If I do it on a cast iron, I’ll give your technique a try, it would definite cut the time needed for marinating.
raquel
April 17, 2012 at 12:18 pmI like your idea of a restaurant favorite cooked at home, there will be plenty of servings that can be made. Everybody can enjoy it whenever they want.