Steak Fajitas

These steak fajitas make the right, straightforward weeknight meal. They’re made with tender and flavorful flank steak and simple fajita greens. Make them this week!

The Very Finest Steak Fajitas

Who’s a fan of fajita night time!? WE ARE. And even higher if fajita night time may be prepped and cooked and on the desk in below an hour. Hi there, straightforward weeknight meal resolution. The entire household will love these steak fajitas, and bonus: we’re sharing a fajita veggies recipe, too.

Featured Substances

It actually solely takes 6 fundamental components to whip up these steak fajitas in your personal kitchen:

• Flank Steak: we choose a flank steak for these fajitas as a result of it may possibly simply be tenderized very thinly and is oh so tender when cooked. In the event you can’t discover flank steak, skirt steak is an effective different.
• Home made Fajita Seasoning: the important thing to superb fajita veggies is making your personal fajita seasoning. In the event you’re in a pinch, it’s also possible to purchase a packet in shops, however do word that the packet has components and a thickening agent in it.
• Bell Peppers: be at liberty to make use of any shade of bell pepper. We love a great rainbow so we used 3 totally different colours.
• Onion: any shade onion works. We love the pop of shade a pink onion provides!
• Garlic: we’re utilizing entire garlic cloves to actually add a taste blast.
• Avocado Oil: avocado oil is nice for cooking issues at a better warmth. It’s additionally fairly gentle in taste. Be at liberty to swap for olive oil.

Selecting the Proper Steak

Flank steak can get a nasty rap as a result of it’s a extra inexpensive lower of meat (plus, it’s fairly lean), and generally is a bit powerful when you don’t cook dinner it accurately.

We love flank steak right here on Match Foodie Finds as a result of once you season and cook dinner flank steak accurately, it’s deliciously flavorful and tender — which makes it an ideal lower of meat for these thinly sliced steak tacos.

The best way to Make Steak Fajitas

Tenderize Steak

Place the flank steak on a slicing board and canopy it with plastic wrap and pound the steak with a meat tenderizer till the entire piece of meat is about ¾-inch thick. As soon as tender, season the steak with salt on each side and therapeutic massage into the steak.

Slice Fajita Veggies

Thinly slice the bell peppers, purple onion, and garlic into lengthy strips.

Slice Steak

Slice the flank steak into skinny strips, utilizing a pointy knife to slice the steak in opposition to the grain of the steak. 

Prepare dinner Steak

Warmth a big skillet with sides over medium/excessive warmth and add the avocado oil to the pan. When the avocado oil is aromatic and scorching, add the sliced steak to the pan. Sprinkle 1.5 teaspoons of fajita seasoning over the steak, and cook dinner the steak for 2-3 minutes, tossing the steak often.

Take away the steak from the pan with a slotted spoon (leaving the steak juices and drippings within the pan!) when it nonetheless has specks of pink on some items.

Sauté Veggies

Add the onion and garlic to the skillet and sauté within the beef drippings and avocado oil. Sauté the onion and garlic for two minutes after which add the entire sliced peppers to the skillet and toss with the onion and garlic.

Season the fajita veggies with the remaining 1.5 teaspoons of fajita seasonings. Cowl the skillet and sauté the peppers for 5-6 minutes, eradicating the quilt to toss the peppers periodically.

Add steak again

As soon as the peppers start to melt, add the steak to the skillet and cook dinner for an extra minute or till the steak reaches the specified doneness. 

Flank Steak Inner Temperature Information

One of the best ways to inform in case your flank steak is cooked is by temperature. Right here’s what the inner temperature must be:

• Medium Uncommon: 130 – 135ºF
• Medium: 135ºF – 145ºF
• Effectively Achieved: 145ºF – 155ºF

Serve & Take pleasure in!

Serve the fajita steak and greens in tortillas with non-obligatory toppings.

Toppings for Steak Fajitas

Prime Ideas

Don’t skip the selfmade fajita seasoning: Home made fajita seasoning is the way in which to go for these fajitas! However when you’re utilizing store-bought, needless to say store-bought seasoning tends to be a bit saltier than selfmade.

Selecting bell peppers: We use three totally different colours of bell peppers for these steak fajitas, however you should utilize any shade mixture you prefer to or have readily available.  

A skinny flank steak is finest: A skinny flank steak will yield the most effective steak fajitas! Be sure you’re each pounding the steak with a meat tenderizer to three/4 inch thick, and thinly slicing it into strips.

Extra Methods to Serve Fajitas

Trying to serve these steak fajitas in one thing apart from flour or corn tortillas? Allow us to suggest any of the next:

Salad: Make a fajita salad! Chop up romaine lettuce and serve your steak fajitas with these fajita veggies, Mexican corn, and our avocado cilantro lime dressing.

Fajita Bowls: Not a tortilla individual?! Make a fajita bowl as a substitute. Pair your steak fajitas with cilantro lime rice and serve it with fajita veggies and salsa.

Burritos: rooster burritos and bean burritos are a favourite at FFF, however why not jazz issues up with steak? Wrap your sliced steak in a big tortilla after which add Mexican rice, fajita veggies, and refried beans. BONUS – you’ll be able to simply freeze these for later.

What to Serve with Steak Fajitas

Spherical out a fajita night time with any of the next sides that pair oh so completely with steak fajitas.

Mexican Road Corn Salad: Our Mexican road corn salad is made with grilled corn, tomato, onion, and probably the most scrumptious cotija yogurt sauce with lime juice.

Grilled Mexican Road Corn: Recent off-the-grill Mexican road corn is the most effective. We’ve bought a brilliant easy grilled Mexican road corn recipe that you simply’ll completely love.

Black Bean Corn Salad: On the lookout for a easy chilly salad that doubles as relish and triples as a dip? Make our black bean corn salad. It’s made with recent components cilantro, jalapeño, cotija cheese, and lime juice.

Mexican Quinoa Salad: Make this gentle and refreshing quinoa salad with components you in all probability have already got readily available! This flavorful Mexican salad is vegan, gluten-free and the right vegetarian meal so as to add to your rotation.

Storage

Retailer leftover steak and fajita veggies in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 3-5 days.

To reheat: reheat steak fajitas on the stovetop in somewhat avocado oil over medium warmth.