These fajitas are made with a sauce, that while it’s cooking, the aroma smells like you walked into an authentic Mexican restaurant. These so closely resemble the real thing that if you close your eyes you can almost hear the maracas.
I have made fajitas over the years using those pouches you buy in the store, and they always came out, just okay. Nothing that I would ever brag to anyone about. And surely nothing that left me thinking “Wow, that tasted just like at that restaurant!”
However, I recently ran across a sauce that you marinate your meat and vegetables in and it blew us away! When I tossed the stuff into my cast iron skillet I was immediately taken to the smells of our favorite, and recently shut down, because they were relocating restaurant. You will love the simple recipe that packs a punch with flavor. This is sure to become your favorite fajita recipe.
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What do you need?
1 ½ pounds of skirt or flank steak, sliced into thin stripes
1 yellow onion, sliced into half inch slices
4 bell peppers in a variety of color, washed, seeded and ribs removed, sliced into thin strips
⅓ cup olive oil
3 tablespoons worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon cumin
juice of one lime
2 cloves of garlic, minced
1 tablespoon chili powder
½ teaspoon chili flakes
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon pepper
1 tablespoon sugar
oil for frying
toppings such as cheese, sour cream, guacamole, pico de gallo (you can find a delicious recipe for pico here)
warm tortillas
What do you do?
In a bowl mix together your lime juice, olive oil, worcestershire sauce, cumin, garlic, chili powder, chili flakes, salt, pepper, and sugar.
Pour half the marinade in a separate dish and place your meat in the marinade.
Toss to coat.
Place your sliced onion and bell peppers into the rest of the marinade and toss to coat.
Cover both dishes and refrigerate to marinate at least 2 hours.
When your ready to cook, heat a large skillet over medium to high heat. Drizzle with oil.
Cook your onion and bell peppers until they are slightly browned, but still firm.
Remove and set aside.
In the same skillet drizzle with oil.
Cook your meat only a couple of minutes per side to sear it. You want it to be slightly pink.
Plate up and enjoy!!
Jessica
These look tasty! Glad I popped over from the Wake Up Wednesday link party!
Joanna
I’m glad you came by too! 🙂
Sarah Washburn
Mmmmm…. that looks SO good! It made me hungry looking at the recipe! I love fajitas, but we have not been able to find a good recipe for making them at home. I am going to ask my mother if we can try this one. Thank you so much for sharing. ~Sarah (visiting from Radical Femininity)
Joanna
Thanks for stopping by! These are so easy, I’m sure your mom won’t mind whipping them together. 🙂 Have a great weekend!
Sarah Washburn
Okay … I made these last night for my family and they were SOOOO good! I do not do a lot of cooking normally, but this recipe looked so good that it really motivated me! I am so glad I made them … the recipe was super easy. I also made the pico recipe and it was delicious:) My sister said it was the best she had tasted and I have to agree. I ate several spoonful’s by its self and I could have continued on if I wasn’t concerned about not having any for the fajitas:) It was nice and spicy, but not over powering! I’m going to comment on that recipe as well to review in case others are curious for another opinion on the recipe. But to the fajitas, as I was cooking the veggies and meat my siblings came in and said it smelled like a Mexican restaurant! Thank you so much for sharing this recipe! Blessings!
Joanna
I am so glad that you liked it! Don’t ya just love super easy recipes?! I know I do! 🙂 Thank you for letting me know how much you and your family enjoyed it! I also love that your siblings said it smelled like a Mexican restaurant! Have a great week!
Natalie @ our parallel connection
Oh yum. Fajitas is one of my all time favourite foods but often the packet stuff just isn’t that great. I love this and love it with heaps of veggies too. – oh and sour cream
Joanna
Thank you for stopping by! If you get the chance to make, please let me know what you think!
Pinky
I love flank steak, so yummy! And fajitas are one of my favorites!
Joanna
Thanks for stopping by! If you give this recipe a try, let me know what you think.
Claire
Whoo so tasty, yum, yum!!
Thanks for sharing at the hop…
Joanna
Thank you for stopping by!
Kristen from The Road to Domestication
I hear angels singing. These look amazing! Thanks so much for taking the time to link up with us over at the #HomeMattersParty – we hope to see you again on Friday!
Joanna
Thanks for stopping by! I’ll definitely have to check out Friday! 🙂
Miz Helen
Hope you enjoyed your feature at Full Plate Thursday this week and your new Red Plate. Have a great day and come back soon!
Miz Helen
Joanna
Thank you again for the feature!! Also, thanks for stopping by!