Skirt steak is great to cook with and it features in many of the most famous and authentic Mexican food recipes. It might be an economical cut of beef but you can make it really tender by marinating it. This also adds a lot of flavor to your meat, as does grilling it on a charcoal grill.
You can either marinate the steak and then cook it or put the meat in a Ziploc bag with the marinade and freeze it until the day you want to make it. Perhaps you want to make two batches and cook one straight away, freezing the remainder. This is certainly the timesaving way of doing things.
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The following recipe serves six people and you can make the salsa up to a day in advance. There are no chilies in the meat marinade but there is a jalapeno in the salsa so cut this down to half a jalapeno if you are not keen on too much spice. Make sure the tortillas are hot when you serve the steak and salsa, then you will have a great contrast with temperatures as well as flavors and textures.
What You Need For The Marinade:
1 sweet onion 1/2 thinly sliced white onion 1 minced garlic clove 2 tablespoons olive oil 1/2 cup lime juice 2 lbs skirt steak 12 warm corn tortillas Pinch each of salt and black pepper What You Need For The Salsa: 1 peeled, seeded tomato 1 peeled, pitted avocado 1 seeded jalapeno 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon black pepper 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 tablespoon red onion 2 tablespoons fresh cilantro
How To Make It:
Mix all the marinade ingredients in a bowl, apart from the sweet onion, steak, and tortillas, and then pour the marinade into a big Ziploc bag. Add the steak and close the bag. Let it sit in the refrigerator for a few hours. Chop the tomato, avocado, and jalapeno for the salsa, and then combine them with the salt, black pepper, lemon juice, red onion, and cilantro. Cover and chill.
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees F and wrap the tortillas in aluminum foil. Bake them for twenty minutes or until they are hot. Preheat the grill to moderately hot, and then take the meat out of the marinade. Grill it for about five minutes per side for medium rare.
Slice the sweet onion and put it on the grill too, brushing some of the marinade over it. Grill until it is tender but still firm. Arrange the meat and onion on a serving platter. Slice the meat thinly on the diagonal and serve it with the warm tortillas and salsa.
This is a fantastic meal if you want to have a cookout and entertain your dinner guests outdoors. The smoke from the grill adds a mouthwatering flavor to the beef. If you are unable to cook outside you could use an indoor grill. You will not end up having the same smoky taste on the meat but the other ingredients in this authentic Mexican food recipe add plenty of flavor themselves.
Grilled Recipes - Marinated Skirt Steak And Salsa
Skirt steak features in plenty of Mexican food recipes and this is an economical cut of meat to use. Beef and chicken feature in recipes throughout Mexican food history actually, although turkey and fish are other options for tasty homemade Mexican recipes.
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